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For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindbergh
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Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
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Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
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I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.
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I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
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The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
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Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
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In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.
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When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.
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Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit — qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected.
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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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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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One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
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It is only framed in space that beauty blooms only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.
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Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.
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God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.
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Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.
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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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It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
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