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.

Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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...

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the...

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...

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as...

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as...

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...

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...

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient....

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient....

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

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...

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...

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles...

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles...

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...

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen -...

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen -...

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery,...

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery,...

A photograph must be more interesting than the thing photographed

A photograph must be more interesting than the thing photographed