"it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"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."
"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, openn..."
"Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes bac..."
"It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security."
"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living."
"The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think."
"You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation."
"It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core."
"The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself."