Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change."
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"The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"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
"One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"People "died" all the time. ... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes the fire had gone out ... you always knew when you made a decision against life. ... The door clicked and you were safe inside- safe and dead."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Duration is not a test of true or false."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"One must lose one's life in order to find it."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"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
"Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class"
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and -- from time immemorial--the woman."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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