The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is … - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

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

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I must try to be alone for part of each year. . . and part of each day. . . in order to keep my core, my center. . . Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.

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The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

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the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood. . . is the hardest lesson of all.

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