The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
("Gift from the Sea")
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Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.
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