Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes - Page 3

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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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• It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mad At Someone, Hug, Want

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Education, Powerful, Writing

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Independent, Finals, Widowhood

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• You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• One must lose one's life to find it.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Order, Loses

  "Gift from the Sea".

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• The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Wearing A Mask, Social

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.21, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Earthquakes, Rocks, Feelings

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

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• 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Art, Practice, Solitude

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.34, Random House

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• The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Gossip, Criticism, Rumor

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• Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Women, Order, Essence

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.28, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beautiful, Beach, Shells

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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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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• 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Prayer, Flower

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.34, 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  Gift from the Sea ch. 3 (1955)

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Motivational, Thank You, Gratitude

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

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• My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Heart, People, Demand

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

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• there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Grief, Aristocracy

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Funny, Friendship, Football

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Women, Islands, Sea

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

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• Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Thinking, Shells, World

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Yesterday, Today, Facts

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

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Coffee, Communication, Memorable

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

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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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Happiness, Disappointment, Littles

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

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• The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Nice, Intelligent, People

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