Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

  Morning, Prayer, Flower

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.34, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Angel, Helping Others

• Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Mean, Giving

• I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spiritual, Eye, Giving

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

• I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Fighting, Self, Giving

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

• And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Eye, Glasses, Giving

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

• People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Flower, People

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

• 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Order, Giving

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

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Women, Believe, Giving

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

• I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Children, Growing Up, People

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.122, Pantheon

• And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Perfect Days, Giving, Clue

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.96, Random House

• People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that -- just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strong, Flower, People

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

• If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Giving, Function, Ifs

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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