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 added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
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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
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
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There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
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If one talks to more than four people it is an audience, and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.
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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.
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The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting one is wearing a mask.
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