Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

American - Writer | June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001

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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

RelationshipLooking BackForwardNow

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

QualityRewardSpecialWithoutOwn

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

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I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

SeaLonelinessFeelYouAliveGet

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

LifeWomenDailyDayMenSimplicity

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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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