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All Quotes by author - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
" Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. "
Writing
Morning
Flowers
" 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. "
True
Women
Alone
" 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. "
Humor
Strength
Courage
" For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. "
Spring
Security
Joy
" Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. "
Good
Coffee
Communication
" Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. "
Own
Sympathy
Way
" How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. "
Be Strong
Marriage
Beautiful
" I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. "
I Feel
Islands
Sea
" If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. "
Live
Surrender
More
" It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core. "
My Own
Find
Solitude
" It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. "
Failed
Tried
Much
" Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. "
Men
Football
Women
" One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life. "
Life
Somewhere
Never
" 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. "
More
Beach
Beautiful
" Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. "
Security
Change
Enough
" Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid. "
Me
Relationship
Memory
" The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. "
Children
Women
Creative
" 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. "
Sea
Loneliness
Feel
" The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. "
Most
Being
Exhausting
" 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. "
Now
Looking Back
Looking
" 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. "
Reward
Beach
Gift
" 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. "
Stars
Skies
Romantic
" To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force. "
Love
Force
Course
" To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. "
Special
Without
Own
" What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. "
Life
Day
Men
" When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. "
Race
Wedding
Clock
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