It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before. β¨ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). Gift from the Sea, p.34, Random House
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- The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. β¨ Gift from the Sea. Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Chapter 2, 1955.
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