Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings.
We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be a… - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be a…
It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a super… - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a super…
I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again - or with an… - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again - or with an…
God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.
The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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