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

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.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 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...

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,...

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 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.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those...

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those...

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and...

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and...

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

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

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may...

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may...

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in...

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in...

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is...

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is...