anne morrow lindbergh

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“One cannot dance well unless one is completely in time with the music, not leaning back to the last step or pressing…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The only real security is not in owning or possessing, no in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other (one perfect sunrise gazing at another!) but in looking outward together in the…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In our family an experience was not finished, nor truly experienced, unless written down and shared with another.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Don't wish me happiness I don't expect to be happy all the time... It's gotton beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it.…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“One must lose one's life to find it. Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh