Anne Morrow Lindbergh quotes

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
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. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. View quote
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Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. View quote
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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh