Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of."
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"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
"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."
"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."
"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."
"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."