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

Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Topics: Beauty Quotes

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you...

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you...

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....

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

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.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular...

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular...

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops...

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops...

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

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

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

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 do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world...

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world...

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow,...

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow,...