Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American Writer

Born: Jun 22, 1906

Died: Feb 7, 2001

Alone Day Life Own Women You

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To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quality Reward Own Give Without Any Notice Special

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 Gift Reward Greedy Too Those Beach Impatient Open Empty Does Anxious Should Sea Who

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

Happiness Needs Joy Spring Flower Despair Security Like Cliffs Even

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

Alone Grief Burden Own Sympathy Everyone Way Carries Shared His

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 Few Collect Beach More Only Shells Cannot

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 Alone Patience Wise Suffering World Understanding Believe Added Everyone Willingness Must Would Would-Be All The World Remain Since Openness Sheer Vulnerable Mourning Taught Teaches Suffers

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

Happiness Strength Me Be Happy Happy Courage Sense Of Humor Humor Will Wish Sense Somehow Beyond Gotten Expect Them Need

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Solitude Own Find My Own Only Ever Core

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

Alone Women Solitude Will Relationships Find Web Only Indispensable Firm True Springs Essence Human Order Center Which Again Themselves Certain Strand Whole Human Relationships Need

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

Life Insincere Most Exhausting Being Thing

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 Demanding Looking Looking Back Living Back Possessing Neither Security Lies Hoping Only Accepting Real Nor Expecting Real Security Owning Might Forward Even Now Present

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. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life Day Daily Wise Women Every Day Simplicity Men Control Every Our Books Our Lives Circus Run Steady Kitchen Head Wise Men Perform Look Balancing Pile Tightrope Still Us Warn Act Chair Multiplicity Now Lives

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Future Fighting Wave Coming

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

Life Gratitude Somewhere Pay Else Kind Only Somewhere Else Never

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

Good Communication Coffee Black Black Coffee Stimulating Just After Hard Sleep

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

Approach Aisle Wedding Individuals Longer Hour Sounds Clock Human Race Figures Human Race March Symbolize Resolute

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

Courage Tried Takes Failed Does Succeeded Much

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

You Surrender Live Those More Pass Moments

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beautiful Alone Marriage Strong Be Strong Oneself How Interdependence Hard

Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. 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. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love Great Love Is Liberating Force Course Deeply

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

Alone Think Rejection Hates Oneself Seems Imply How

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