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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3744d9f | certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 81f481a | Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century. Yet, the problem is particularly and essentially woman's. Distraction is, always has been, and probably always will be, inherent in woman's life. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| f820886 | I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going "down the drain." We do not see the results of our giving as concretely as man does his work. In the job of home-keeping there is no raise from the boss, and seldom praise from others to show us we have hit the mark. Except for the .. | motherhood woman-s-character woman-s-strength | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 6f2830f | Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion. The more one gives, the more one has the give - like milk in the breast. | giving-quotes selflessness | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| cfdc88a | One longs to explain, to be sure they understand, the people one loves. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| c5145df | seems to me the most beautiful thing on earth, perhaps because it is unearthly, and the touch of God in us: the miracle of mercy, the unexpected, the arms of the prodigal son's father, the ravens bringing food in the night, the cup running over. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 0811793 | We have had three appalling weeks, the kind one hardly believes while one is going through it. And afterwards, as now, it seems quite unbelievable--except for the inexplicable weariness. Written down it sounds merely funny. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| a53ac5e | When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; whe.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| db6a0a9 | When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only, are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| b09500f | Beautiful, fragile, fleeting, the sunrise shell; but not, for all that, illusory. Because it is not lasting, let us not fall into the cynic's trap and call it an illusion. Duration is not a test of true or false. The day of the dragon-fly or the night of the Saturnid moth is not invalid simply because that phase in its life cycle is brief. Validity need have no relation to time, to duration, to continuity. It is on another plane, judged by .. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| f1cecb8 | People are like that here. Strangers smile at you on the beach, come up and offer you a shell, for no reason, lightly, and then go by and leave you alone again. Nothing is demanded of you in payment, no social rite expected, no tie established. It was a gift, freely offered, freely taken, in mutual trust. People smile at you here, like children, sure that you will not rebuff them, that you will smile back. And you do, because you know it wi.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 425655c | One comes in the end to realize that there is no permanent pure-relationship and there should not be. It is not even something to be desired. The pure relationship is limited, in space and in time. In its essence it implies exclusion. It excludes the rest of life, other relationships, other sides of personality, other responsibilities, other possibilities in the future. It excludes growth. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| e3212ea | We all wish to be loved alone. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 5040061 | The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now. | future past | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 4fb2bde | One must lose one's life to find it. Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 549dcd8 | People, too, become like islands in such an atmosphere, self-contained, whole and serene; respecting other people's solitude, not intruding on their shores, standing back in reverence before the miracle of another individual. 'No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. We | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 0745540 | Modern communication loads us with more problems than the human frame can carry. [...] Our grandmothers, and even - with some scrambling - our mothers, lived in a circle small enough to let them implement in action most of the impulses of their hearts and minds. We were brought up in a tradition that has now become impossible, for we have extended our circle throughout space and time. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 5d9e3b8 | Because we cannot deal with the many as individuals, we sometimes try to simplify the many into an abstraction called the mass. Because we cannot deal with the complexity of the present, we often over-ride it and live in a simplified dream of the future. Because we cannot solve our own problems right here at home, we talk about problems out there in the world. An escape process goes on from the intolerable burden we have placed upon ourselv.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 84770e1 | The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greed, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 8483243 | I begin to shed my Martha-like anxiety about many things. Washable slipcovers, faded and old--I hardly see them; I don't worry about the impression they make on other people. I am shedding pride. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| b6fae81 | Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense she has always been the pioneer. --ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 50bc3c7 | I remind myself that once upon a time, I trusted my instincts. You did, too. Once upon a time there weren't second and third guesses. It can be that way again. Try to contact the girl you once were. She's all grown up now. She's your authentic self and she's waiting to remind you how beautiful, accomplished, and extraordinary you really are. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 1965ba2 | The Gratitude Journal is a polite, daily thank-you note to the Universe | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 4271235 | I ask you to do today is to open "the eyes of your eyes" and give your life another glance.... Then pause for a moment and give thanks. Let your heart awaken to the transforming power of gratefulness. SIMPLE ABUNDANCE JANUARY13" | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 8fe81db | You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 212a626 | Turning away from the world and toward your own happiness is the path of authenticity. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| fb3b9ae | Seek not outside yourself, heaven is within. --MARY LOU COOK | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| f151c95 | Don't blame yourself for bad choices. Do attempt to make better ones. Most of our problems in handling money stem from unexamined patterns rather than from uncontrollable urges. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 1f9df90 | Necessities, Comforts, Wants, Indulgences, Extravagances, Insanity. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 5958ff6 | My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! --EDMUND WALLER | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 70e8896 | The thirteenth-century German mystic Meister Eckehart believed, "If the only prayer you ever say in your life is 'ThankYou,' it will be enough." | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 4b2ba59 | For thousands of years the creation of mandalas--circular, geometric designs--has been part of both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 44a494a | For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human," Phyllis McGinley reassures us in Saint-Watching. "They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical, or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven." | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| b23bd31 | You must do the thing you think you cannot do," Eleanor Roosevelt once observed, and her life was spent proving the point." | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| eccfa01 | To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. --HARRIET BEECHER STOWE | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 3a7e2ac | Longfellow believed that situations that call forth our coping abilities are "celestial benedictions" in dark disguises, sent not to try our souls, but to enlarge them." | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 21a3d26 | Dreams pass into the reality of action," Anais Nin reassures us. "From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 43acf1d | In order for us to become Real, we must become lovers of real life in all its complexity and uncertainty. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 761cd04 | A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body," Margaret Fuller" | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| ee7bf52 | Let us imagine care of the soul, then, as an application of poetics to everyday life. --THOMAS MOORE | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 54371e3 | William Wordsworth wrote, "we see into the life of things." -- | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 72585fa | With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy," William Wordsworth wrote, "we see into the life of" | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 6dc61f9 | It's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| d8f46b3 | The only thing that isn't small stuff is the reason you're on earth in the first place: to find that portion of the world's lost heart that only you can ransom with your love and authentic gifts and then return it, so that all of us can experience Wholeness. | Sarah Ban Breathnach |