The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

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...

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...

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 -...

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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 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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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 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....