"People "died" all the time. ... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walkin..."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
"One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life."
"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."
"The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness."
"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."
"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."
"Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse."
"The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change."
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."