Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead (1973)

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Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.

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

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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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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.

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Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.

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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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Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.

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

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

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Why is it harder to think of his going to nothing than to think of his coming from nothing? One direction is just as dark as the other.

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Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

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I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long.

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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?

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