Read Anne Morrow Lindbergh biography
Him that I love, I wish to beFree — Even from me.
"Even—" (1966) |
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 LindberghThere 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 LindberghOne can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow LindberghOnly in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow LindberghThe wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Anne Morrow LindberghLost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.
Anne Morrow LindberghDearly beloved — late again!
Anne Morrow LindberghI 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 LindberghSo 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 LindberghGood communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow LindberghWe 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 LindberghThe 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 LindberghDon'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 LindberghOnly in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow LindberghOnly in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow LindberghOne 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 LindberghThe wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Anne Morrow LindberghThe beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.
Anne Morrow LindberghOne 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 LindberghThe 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 LindberghOne 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