Anne Morrow Lindbergh was a famous Writer from USA, who lived between June 22, 1906 and February 7, 2001. He/she became 94 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective.
Our collection contains 30 quotes who is written / told by Anne, under the main topic Friendship.
30 Famous quotes by 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"
"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"
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere"
"Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child"
"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living"
"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"
"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments"
"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class"
"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"
"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"
"One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life"
"I feel we are all islands - in a common sea"
"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"
"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own"
"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found"
"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way"
"For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one"
"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"
"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces"
"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"
"The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it"
"The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to"
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded"
"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"
"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"
"I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly"
"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"
"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after"
"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair"
"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"
