Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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.

People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.

When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.

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.

It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy!

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

God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.

It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

I think best with a pencil in my hand.

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

The fundamental magic of flying, 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.

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

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.

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.

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

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.

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.

So many things we love are you!

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

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.

The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.

One must lose one's life to find it.

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

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.

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.

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

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

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.