For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish...

Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish...

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more...

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more...

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls...

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls...

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition,...

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition,...

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between...

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between...

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

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

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

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of...

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of...

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in...

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in...

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early...

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early...

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

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

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a...

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a...

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat...

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat...

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could...

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could...

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible...

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible...

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every...

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every...

To save time is to lengthen life

To save time is to lengthen life

The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for...

The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for...