Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes - Page 7

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• Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spring, Order, Essence

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

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• So many things we love are you!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Grandma, Grandpa, Grandparent

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• No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?

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  Space, Leaving, Needs

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

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• Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

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  Inspirational, Couple, Greatest Love

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

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

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  Funny, Running, Time

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• Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

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  Death, Grief, Grieving

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

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• 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love Life, Vanity, Intellectual

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

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• I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.

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  Children, Growing Up, People

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.122, Pantheon

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• After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

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  Nature, Selfish, Years

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

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• How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

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  Hate, Thinking, Rejection

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.33, Random House

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• Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

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  Inspirational, Order, Giving

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

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• It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.

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  Adventure, Artist, America

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

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• The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.

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  Country, Mean, Race

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.124, Random House

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• Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings.

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  Spiritual, War, Luxury

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• America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

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  America, World, Today

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.124, Random House

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• The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

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  Appreciation, Acquisition, Facts

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.111, Random House

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• One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

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  Time, Nice, Thinking

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

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• The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.

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  Light, Climbing, Wind

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

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  Peace, Desire, Want

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

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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.

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  Lakes, Jewels, Railroads

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• Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Running, Women, Contemplative Life

  Gift from the Sea ch. 2 (1955)

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• I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Grief, Air, Weight

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• Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Planning, Packing, Ifs

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• No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Christ, Disciple, Partisanship

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• I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire for communication too; without the answering voice you get so numb; you lose faith in your powers to communicate.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Communication, Artist, Voice

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

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