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Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age: 94 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2001
Died: February 7
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Englewood
New Jersey
Anne Lindbergh
Anne Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow
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Love is a force. . . . It is not a result it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.
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Yesterday I sat in a field of violets for a long time perfectly still, until I really sank into it - into the rhythm of the place, I mean - then when I got up to go home I couldn't walk quickly or evenly because I was still in time with the field.
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Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.
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I think best with a pencil in my hand.
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For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is true that society in general does not help one accept this interpretation of the second half of life.
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there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.
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There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, 'Who am I? What is my name? Why am I here?
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people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!
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Too many people, too many demands, too much to do competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.
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Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.
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Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.
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The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
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Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?
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People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.
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Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.
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For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.
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Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.
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I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.
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You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
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