One must lose one's life to find it. Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.

But I want first of all — in fact, as an end to these other desires — to be at peace with myself

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least, in one's own life, and a personal, trivial immortality of an old self assured.