Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may ...

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward i...

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing...

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every y...

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintl...

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me coura...

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to...

Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell o...

People "died" all the time. ... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decis...

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is th...

I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found,...

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory th...

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someo...

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to s...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping,...

# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet ne...

by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are ...

The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purpos...

The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, ...

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. T...

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is bein...

A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married...

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between y...

I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up w...

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abj...

Duration is not a test of true or false.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wis...

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, th...

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

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nic...

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies ...

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources it belongs to that natural order of givi...

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being c...

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass ...

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as ...

We walk up the beach under the stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pou...

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.

It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irr...

All living relationships are in process ofchange, of expansion, and must perpetually be building the...

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.

If one sets aside timefor a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or ...

The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that th...

And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—...

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind ...

A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partnersd...

It is the wilderness inthe mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a...

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wis...

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they ...

There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and deman...

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.