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

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 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...

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...

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 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,...

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...

Duration is not a test of true or false.

Duration is not a test of true or false.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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,...

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...

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep...

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep...

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...