Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Prayer, Answers, May

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• The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.

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  Wall, Cat, Animal

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• Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.

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  Earthquakes, Rocks, Feelings

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead”

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

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  Witty, Feelings, One Day

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• The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

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  Artist, Order, Essence

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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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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  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

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  Death, Suicide, Men

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• 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

  Strength, Courage, Wish

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1972). “Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.

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  Life, Faith, Love Is

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

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  Love, Cute, Stills

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• The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

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  Vision, Can Do, Exhausting

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

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  Inspirational, Courage, Recovery

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• I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints - to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.

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  Life, Spiritual, Peace

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955.

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• Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.

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  Failure, Ifs

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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

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  Creativity, Creative, Creative Work

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• It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

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  Solitude, My Own, Core

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.73, Pantheon

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• People "died" all the time. . . . Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out. . . you always knew when you made a decision against life. The door clicked and you were safe inside-safe and dead.

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  Eye, Doors, Fire

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Thinking, People, Four

  anne morrow lindbergh (1936). “north to the orient”

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• Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

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  Education, Book, Reading

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• One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.

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  Prayer, Mistake, Writing

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• Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

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  Guarantees, Neglect, Substitutes

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1955). “Gift from the Sea”

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• 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.

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  Birthday, Ambition, Ego

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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

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  Baby, Father, Bills

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

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  Music, Teacher, Silence

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• When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lying, Ebb And Flow, When You Love Someone

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