Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Anne Spencer Lindbergh is a popular inspirational book, reflecting on the lives of American women.
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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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—no—but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those lazy waves on the beach. One never knows what cha...

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It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is a stranger to 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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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

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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.

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It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing. It looks rather like the house of a big family, pushing out one addition after another to hold its teeming life - here...

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If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rud...

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A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozar...

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Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement in the same circle. We never would have chosen these neighbors; life chose them for us. But thrown together on this island of living, we stretch to u...

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The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize.

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

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

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How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

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Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

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How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

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And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as well admit it--fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid them--in a sort of false pride--shyness--timorous modesty? I us...

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

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There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least, in one's own life,...

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Author Bio

  • NameAnne Morrow Lindbergh
  • DescriptionAmerican aviator and author
  • BornJune 22, 1906
  • DiedFebruary 7, 2001
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Aviator
  • AwardsNational Book Award; National Women's Hall Of Fame