Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes About Love
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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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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.
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People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.
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Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
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There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.
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Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.
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Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
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...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
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Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.
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