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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age: 94 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2001
Died: February 7
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After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
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We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.
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I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.
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Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
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But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.
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The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.
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The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.
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Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
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Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.
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To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.
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God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.
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life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.
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The collector walks with blinders on he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.
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The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.
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I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.
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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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Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?
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The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.
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