Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes - Page 6

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• We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.

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  Real, Lying, Dancer

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• ...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

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  Love, Real, Growth

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• No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.

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  Taken, Moon, Men

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• One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.

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  Miracle, Growth, Tragedy

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.67, Random House

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• These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?

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  Lakes, Hands, Jewels

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

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  Courage, Long, Uphill Climbs

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

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• The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

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  Suffering, World, Knees

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1940). “The wave of the future: a confession of faith”

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• I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199

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  Thinking, Long, Joy

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• The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and - from time immemorial - the woman. In the small circle of the home she has never quite forgotten the particular uniqueness of each member of the family; the spontaneity of now; the vividness of here. This is the basic substance of life. These are the individual elements that form the bigger entities like mass, future, world. We may neglect these elements, but we cannot dispense with them. They are the drops that make up the stream. They are the essence of life itself.

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  Women, Home, Artist

  "Gift from the Sea".

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• Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

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  Stars, Memories, Night

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.

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  Life, Islands, Sea

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• We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.

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  Beach, Stars, Lying

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.99, Random House

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• Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

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  Strong, Unhappy, Woven

  "War Within and Without". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1980.

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• What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

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  Wise, Running, Baby

  "The New York Times Biographical Service, Volume 32". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (p. 224), 1975.

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• For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

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  Life, Simplicity, Clutter

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

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  "Even - " (1956)

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• Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.

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  Today, Towns, Unicorn

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

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  Strong, Holiday, Winter

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

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  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.59, Random House

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• The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

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  Vanity, Desire, Attention

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• Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?

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  Communication, Things In Life, Persons

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

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• When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

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  Writing, Feels Just, Biscuits

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

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• People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that -- just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.

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  Strong, Flower, People

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

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• Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.

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  Age

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

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• 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.

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  Eye, Want, Purity

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

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