Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"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."
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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."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it."
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."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid each cycle of the wave is valid each cycle of a relationship is valid."
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
"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."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child."
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."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."
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."
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."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."
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."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
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."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"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."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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