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• 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Quality, Vivid, Void

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.56, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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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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  Life, Relationship, Real

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.106, Random House

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• Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Education, Book, Reading

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  "Gift from the Sea".

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• I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.

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  Mom, Order, Years

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• For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

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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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  Guarantees, Neglect, Substitutes

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1955). “Gift from the Sea”

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• Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.

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  Love, Dream, Spring

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• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Being Yourself, Just Being

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Chapter 2, 1955.

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• To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

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  Inspirational, Angel, Helping Others

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• life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

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  Understanding, Pulling

  War Within and War Without (1980)

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• It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

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  Solitude, My Own, Core

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.73, Pantheon

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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?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Waiting, Enjoy

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead”

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• We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or televsion to fill up the void... We can do our housework with soap-opera heroes at our side... Now instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place. We must re-learn to be alone.

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  Dream, Hero, Being Alone

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• Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Creativity, Creative, Creative Work

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• A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Music, Teacher, Silence

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• If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Letting Go, Focus And Concentration

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.

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  Love, Moving, Two

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.74, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.

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  Lying, Ebb And Flow, When You Love Someone

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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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  Thinking, People, Four

  anne morrow lindbergh (1936). “north to the orient”

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• Fame separates you from life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Fame

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• Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.

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  Spring, Winter, Long

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• Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.

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  Quiet, Thirsty, Pitcher

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.26, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

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  Mad At Someone, Hug, Want

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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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  Spiritual, Eye, Giving

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955.

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