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

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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...

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.

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,...

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...

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting,...

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting,...

Duration is not a test of true or false.

Duration is not a test of true or false.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way...

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a bitch.

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a bitch.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of...

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of...