Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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

Relationship, Forward, Real

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

Friendship, Women, Men

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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Strength, Humor, Happiness

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Live, Moments, Surrender

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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Waiting, Lie, Sea

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Insincere, Exhausting

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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love, Patience, Alone

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, Saying, Writing

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sympathy, Alone, Everyone

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Happiness, Joy, Spring

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

Time, Great, Off

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Communication, Good, Sleep

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Courage, Takes, Tried

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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Loneliness, Personal, Sea

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Woman, Giving, Pieces

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I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sea, Common, Islands

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, Cannot, Few

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Trust, Child

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Gratitude, Else

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Change, True, Enough

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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Wedding, Human, Longer

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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Selfish, Why, After

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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Beauty, Together

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

Writing, Thinking, Living

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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Future, Today, Enjoy

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 22, 1906

Died: February 7, 2001

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