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Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age: 94 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2001
Died: February 7
Aircraft Pilot
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Glider Pilot
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Englewood
New Jersey
Anne Lindbergh
Anne Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindbergh
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Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
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No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?
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Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.
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war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.
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The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.
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Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
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Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.
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The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change.
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One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding how little one can get along with, not how much.
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One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.
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If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.
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It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.
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Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.
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I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.
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The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.
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The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.
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For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.
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I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.
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...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
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