AMAnne Morrow Lindbergh

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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01Undated

The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and -- from time immemorial--the woman.

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02Undated

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.

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03Undated

If one sets aside timefor a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition,that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone,one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when beingalone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that onepractices it—like a secret vice!

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04Undated

We walk up the beach under the stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy—even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.

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05Undated

by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are the great vacationless class

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06Undated

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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07Undated

It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing. It looks rather like the house of a big family, pushing out one addition after another to hold its teeming life - here a sleeping porch for the children, and there a veranda for the play-pen; here a garage for the extra car and there a shed for the bicycles. It amuses me because it seems so much like my life at the moment, like most women's lives in the middle years of marriage. It is untidy, spread out in all directions, heavily encrusted with accumulations....

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08Undated

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.

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09Undated

# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent.

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10Undated

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

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11Undated

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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12Undated

And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—no—but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those lazy waves on the beach. One never knows what chance treasures these easy unconscious rollers may toss up, on the smooth white sand of the conscious mind; what perfectly rounded stone, what rare shell from the ocean floor. Perhaps a channeled whelk, a moon shell, or even an argonaut.

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13Undated

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

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14Undated

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

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15Undated

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

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16Undated

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

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17Undated

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

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18Undated

Duration is not a test of true or false.

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19Undated

People "died" all the time. ... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes the fire had gone out ... you always knew when you made a decision against life. ... The door clicked and you were safe inside- safe and dead.

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20Undated

One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.

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21Undated

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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22Undated

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

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23Undated

A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

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24Undated

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

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