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• If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.

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  Giving, Function, Ifs

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.

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  Communication, Moments, Surrender

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1972). “Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

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  Shopping, Rude, Engagement

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

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• Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

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  Children, Book, Writing

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

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• My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

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  Photography, Women, Shadow

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• What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it -- only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.

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  Art, Writing, Men

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• Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

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  Life, Trust, Children

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• People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that -- just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.

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  Strong, Flower, People

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

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• People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.

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  Taken, Mean, People

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

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• I think one must do the thing -- whatever it is (and it changes from time to time) -- that unites you to the flowing stream of the world. At any price, one must do it first. Otherwise one can do nothing, nothing at all. One is out of touch, out of grace.

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  Thinking, Grace, World

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

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• Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

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  Simplicity, May, Facts

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.16, Random House

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• For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is true that society in general does not help one accept this interpretation of the second half of life.

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  Growth, Age, Doe

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• I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.

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  Fighting, Self, Giving

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

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• Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. If one is recognized everywhere, one begins to feel like Medusa. People stop their normal life and actions and freeze into staring manikins. "We can never catch people or life unawares," as I wrote to my mother, in an outburst of frustration. "It is always looking at us."

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  Mother, Eye, Frustration

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• We must relearn to be alone.

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  Loneliness

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

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• How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

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  Beautiful, Strong, Interdependence

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

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• The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

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  Running, Children, Contemplative Life

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.21, Random House

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• How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

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  Hate, Thinking, Rejection

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.33, Random House

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• I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.

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  Heart, Purple, Dresses

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.36, Pantheon

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

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  Doors, Space, Breathtaking

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.79, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.

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  Grief, Air, Weight

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• But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

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  Peace, Desire, Want

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

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• ... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.

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  Morning, Moving, Light

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• For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

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  Diaries, Down And, Our Family

  "Bring Me a Unicorn".

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• I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

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  Mother, Artist, Wife

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

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