One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.


Gift from the Sea (ed. Pantheon, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307805171

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding...

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding...

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding...

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding...