Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes
After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. 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. I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. 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. I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life. One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
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