Anne Morrow Lindbergh Short Quotes

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Here sits the Unicorn —
In captivity?
In repose.

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Him that I love, I wish to be
Free —
Even from me.

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Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.

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

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There is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.

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Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.

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

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The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

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To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

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Here sits the Unicorn;
The wounds in his side
Still bleed

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Writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

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

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Packing is chiefly planning — if it is in your head the rest is easy.

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People talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!

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Communication with another person — wasn't it the realest thing in life?

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

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Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

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One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

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Only with winter-patience can we bring
The deep-desired, long-awaited spring.

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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way.

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The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

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No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either... it took age to ripen humor.

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

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Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?

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

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For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well

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Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

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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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Here sits the Unicorn
In captivity;
His bright invulnerability
Captive at last

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