Only with winter-patience can we bring The deep desired, long-awaited spring.
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One could sit still and look at life from the air; that was it. And I was conscious again of the fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. What motion there was took on a slow grace, like slow-motion pictures which catch the moment of outstretched beauty that one cannot see in life itself, so swiftly does it move. And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down to the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.
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Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
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Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.
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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.
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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me.
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I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
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If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
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One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.
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The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.
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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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