Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.

The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now.

All living relationships are in process ofchange, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms. But there is no singlefixed form to express such a changing relationship.

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.

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.

by and large, mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are the great vacationless class

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.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

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

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.

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

Duration is not a test of true or false.

One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.