Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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• Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strength, Courage, Wish

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1972). “Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• 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.

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  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Cute, Stills

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• We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Faith, Love Is

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Courage, Recovery

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• Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Air, Rivers, World

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Vision, Can Do, Exhausting

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• I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints - to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Spiritual, Peace

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955.

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• Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Education, Book, Reading

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• life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Understanding, Pulling

  War Within and War Without (1980)

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

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  Coffee, Communication, Memorable

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955.

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• We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Waiting, Missing

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• Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spring, Flower, Knowledge

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1972). “Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

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  Birthday, Ambition, Ego

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

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  Motivational, Thank You, Gratitude

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1938). “Listen! the wind”, Harcourt

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• there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

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  Change, Resistance, Sin

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1940). “The Wave of the Future a Confession of Faith”

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• When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Loneliness And Solitude

  "Wisdom from Gift from the Sea".

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• One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.

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  Prayer, Mistake, Writing

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

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  Grief, Grieving, Losing Someone

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Joseph Viertel, Fletcher Knebel, Paul De Kruif, Charles Waldo Bailey (1962). “Reader's digest condensed books”

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• I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

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  Women, Islands, Sea

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.43, Pantheon

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• Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Waiting, Enjoy

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead”

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• We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.

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  Happiness, Disappointment, Littles

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.76, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  Gift from the Sea ch. 3 (1955)

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• The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

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  Life, Relationship, Real

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.106, Random House

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• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

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  Life, Being Yourself, Just Being

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Chapter 2, 1955.

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