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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

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 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...

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be...

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be...

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...

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 -...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in...

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in...

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...