The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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...

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...

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

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

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient....

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient....

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition,...

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition,...

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 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,...

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...

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 break. Women treat...

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Your friend is the man who knows you and still likes you.

Your friend is the man who knows you and still likes you.

When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.

When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.