Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

• Thoughts die and are buried in the silences between sentences.

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• It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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• 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.

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• Him that I love, I wish to be free — even from me.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

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• 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.

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• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh (38)

Birth:	22nd June, 1906
Death:	7th February, 2001
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Essayist, Pilot, Poet

About

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in Englewood, New Jersey. She was an American author, aviator, and the wife of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh. She was an acclaimed author whose books and articles spanned the genres of poetry to non-fiction, touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment, as well as the role of women in the 20th century.Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea is a popular inspirational book, reflecting on the lives of American women. After graduating from The Chapin School in New York City in 1924, Anne attended Smith College, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928. She received the Elizabeth Montagu Prize for her essay on women of the eighteenth century and Madame d'Houdetot, and the Mary Augusta Jordan Literary Prize for her fictional piece entitled "Lida Was Beautiful".

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