Anne Morrow Lindbergh quotes - page 2

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God. View quote
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The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. View quote
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This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide. View quote
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The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. View quote
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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. View quote
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We must relearn to be alone. View quote
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Life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life. View quote
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Him that I love, I wish to be Free - Even from me. View quote
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My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. View quote
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The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting one is wearing a mask. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Charles was a stubborn Swede, you know, and he himself never felt the need to explain his feelings about where he stood and about past statements. But I feel free now to elaborate on his actual attitudes. He never wanted to be regarded as a hero or leader, and he never had political ambitions. His prewar isolationist speeches were given in all sincerity for what he thought was the good of the country and the world... He was accused of being anti-Semetic, but in the 45 years I lived with him I never heard him make a remark against the Jews, not a crack or joke, and neither did any of our children. View quote
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I wonder why I bother to tell the truth when people ask me what I think of this and that and how I feel about this and that. I get so complicated and introspective that people often don't understand and are frankly puzzled and (naturally enough) bored. So why bother! It would be so much easier to say what they expected you to, and everything would be easy and pleasant. View quote
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I have come to believe that you can get along without anyone - that is, without the close contact of any one person. That is a terrible shock to me, but I think it is true. You do need companionship, but wherever you go, in whatever new environment, you will find people who, to a large degree, take the place of those you left...The intimate companionship goes, I think, when you leave a friend, but friendship stays. It is an inherent possibility of relationship that, once admitted - well, there it is. View quote
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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. View quote
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To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. View quote
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I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. View quote
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I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. View quote
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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. View quote
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For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. View quote
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
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. View quote
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Fame separates you from life. View quote
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When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. View quote
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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. View quote
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