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“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”
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“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”
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“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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“A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.”
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“My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.”
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“I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.”
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“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”
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“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.”
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“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.”
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“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.”
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“Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.”
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“The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.”
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“Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.”
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“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.”
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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 is being insincere.”
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“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.”
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“Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.”
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“To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.”
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“Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”
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“I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.”
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“A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.”
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“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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“Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.”
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“No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.”
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“When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.”
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“One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.”
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“When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is 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.”
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“You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.”
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“Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.”
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