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• What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Practice, Civilization, Solitude

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

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  Life, What Matters, Knowing

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• I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.

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  Beautiful, Fun, Humble

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

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  Peace, Sea, Sky

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

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• For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

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  Sleep, Depth, Needs

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

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  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1940). “The Wave of the Future a Confession of Faith”

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• We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

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  Feelings, Bargaining, Day To Day

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

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• # "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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  Beautiful, Cat, Self

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

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• And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

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  Perfect Days, Giving, Clue

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.96, Random House

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• Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole.

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  Past, Essence, Opposites

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Doubt

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1955). “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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  Believe, True Identity, Creative

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• 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.

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  Beach, Memories, Important

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.62, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• 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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  Marriage, Memories, Husband

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.35, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.

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  Morning, Waiting, Missing

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• The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

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  Anniversary, Doors, Want

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth.

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  Circles, Joy, Heaven

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.

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  Unhappy, Maid Of Honor, Kind

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Joseph Viertel, Fletcher Knebel, Paul De Kruif, Charles Waldo Bailey (1962). “Reader's digest condensed books”

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• I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

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  Life, Morning, Lakes

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

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  Hands, Creative, Mind

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• There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.

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  Love, Heart, Harvest

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

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  Marriage, Space, Woven

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.45, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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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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  Heart, Men, America

  "Gift from the Sea".

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• I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

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  Talking, People, Doe

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

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• In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.

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  Stress, Writing, Thinking

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