"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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.“
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child."
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"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."
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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."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm."
-Algernon H. Blackwood
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"Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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-Michael Chertoff
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"You are forever alone."
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
-Jonathan Coe
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"For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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