Only when a tree has fallen can you take a measure of it. It is the same with a man.
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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The world has different owners at sunrise ... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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