Famous Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotations

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"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"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."
by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
"...Him that I love, I wish to be free--even from me."
by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
"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."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"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."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way."
by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
"I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."
by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
"My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."
by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
"Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude."
by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
"Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"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."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own."
by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"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."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Only with winter-patience can we bring The deep desired, long-awaited spring."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh


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