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The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#accepting #back #demanding #even #expecting

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#beach #does #empty #gift #greedy

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#be happy #beyond #courage #expect #gotten

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#alone #burden #carries #everyone #grief

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#live #moments #more #pass #richly

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#great #housewives #large #mothers #off

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#giving #herself #i #i believe #i believe that

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#days #desert #dusty #fields #landed

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#being #conscious #cost #i #living

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#enough #found #growth #only #paradoxically