Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

• 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• I feel we are all islands – in a common sea.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

  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

• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

  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

• America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

  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

• 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

  Topics in Wedding

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Topics in Work

• 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

  Topics in Age, Funny

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Freedom

• 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Topics in Friendship, Knowledge, Self Respect

  Tags in Interdependence

• 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

  Topics in Inspirational, Suffering

• 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

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Football, Crack, Pieces, Goes, Women, Glass, Treat, Seem, Around, Kick, Men

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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