Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes
June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001
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One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
North to the Orient (1935) Ch. 19 
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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— Diary entry on the first anniversary of the kidnapping and death of her son Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (1 March 1932); later published in Locked Rooms and Open Doors (1974) ISBN 0156529564
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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— North to the Orient (1935) Ch. 1
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— The Wave of the Future (1940)
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— The Wave of the Future (1940)
Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— The Steep Ascent (1944)
Dearly beloved — late again!
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— Dearly Beloved (1962) First lines. ISBN 1556524900
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour…. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— Dearly Beloved (1962)
Him that I love, I wish to beFree — Even from me.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— "Even—" (1966)
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— Locked Rooms and Open Doors (1974)
So dazzling was the spread of constellations that it had the impact of a vision, of some hidden insight. I drove home saying to myself: The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us — invisibly.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— As quoted in No More Words : A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2001) by Reeve Lindbergh, p. 41
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— Variant: Good communication is just as stimulating as...
We were high above fields, and there far, far below, was a small shadow as of a great bird tearing along the neatly marked off fields. It gave me the most tremendous shock to realize for the first time the terrific speed we were going at and that that shadow meant us — us, like a mirror! That "bird" — it was us.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— On her first flight.
The feeling of exultant joy that there is anyone like that in the world. I shall never see him again, and he did not notice me, or would ever, but there is such a person alive, there is such a life, and I am here on this earth, in this age, to know it!
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— On Charles. (Bring Me a Unicorn (1971))
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— Letter to Corliss Lamont on her engagement (1928)
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Wave of the Future (1940)
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Wave of the Future (1940)
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— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea (1955), p. 114.
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Wave of the Future (1940)
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— Gift from the Sea (1955, pg. 11)
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— American author, aviator, and the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh (1906 - 2001)
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too important. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh— Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Long-Lasting 'Gift' (February 26, 2006)
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— Gift from the Sea
