Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

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 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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Duration is not a test of true or false.

Duration is not a test of true or false.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to...

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to...

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our...

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our...