--- title: "4 Middle age Quotes By anne morrow lindbergh" description: "4 Middle age quotes by anne morrow lindbergh. Plus more from anne morrow lindbergh and more Middle age sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/631/anne-morrow-lindbergh-983_accepting_for-is-it-not-possible-that-middle-age-c_713891.jpg" --- > [For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/for-is-it-not-possible-that-middle-age-can-be-looked-upon-as-a-period/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/631/anne-morrow-lindbergh-983_accepting_for-is-it-not-possible-that-middle-age-c_713891.jpg) > [The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/the-signs-that-presage-growth-so-similar-it-seems-to-me-to-those-in/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/565/anne-morrow-lindbergh-983_accepting_the-signs-that-presage-growth-so-similar_929052.jpg) > [“Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/perhaps-middle-age-is-or-should-be-a-period-of-shedding-shells-the/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b9/anne-morrow-lindbergh-983_middle-age_perhaps-middle-age-is-or-should-be-a-per_1627763.jpg) > [Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/perhaps-middle-age-is-or-should-be-a-period-of-shedding-shells-the-2/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe5/anne-morrow-lindbergh-983_accumulation_perhaps-middle-age-is-or-should-be-a-per_3200733.png) ## Other authors on Middle age - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-mason-cooley-65303.jpg) Mason Cooley 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/middle-age/mason-cooley/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-laurence-j-peter-58961.jpg) Laurence J. Peter 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/middle-age/laurence-j-peter/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-ogden-nash-72313.jpg) Ogden Nash 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/middle-age/ogden-nash/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jeffrey-eugenides-48469.jpg) Jeffrey Eugenides 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/middle-age/jeffrey-eugenides/) ## More by anne morrow lindbergh > [“I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/i-promise-to-respect-and-protect-your-aloneness-knowing-that/) [anne morrow lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/not-knowing-how-to-feed-the-spirit-we-try-to-muffle-its-demands-in/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/how-one-hates-to-think-of-oneself-as-alone-how-one-avoids-it-it-seems/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/splutter-splutter-yes-we-re-off-we-re-rising-but-why-start-off-with/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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, then one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/when-one-is-a-stranger-to-oneself-then-one-is-estranged-from-others/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [“Is it not rather ugly, one may ask? One collects material possessions not only for security, comfort or vanity, but for beauty as well.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/is-it-not-rather-ugly-one-may-ask-one-collects-material-possessions/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/no-one-it-has-been-said-will-ever-look-at-the-moon-in-the-same-way/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [“It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity, faith and security.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/it-isn-t-for-the-moment-you-are-stuck-that-you-need-courage-but-for/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/by-and-large-mothers-and-housewives-are-the-only-workers-who-do-not/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/i-do-not-like-talking-casually-to-people-it-does-not-interest-me-and/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [“One comes in the end to realize that there is no permanent pure-relationship and there should not be. It is not even something to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/one-comes-in-the-end-to-realize-that-there-is-no-permanent-pure/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/it-is-a-difficult-lesson-to-learn-today-to-leave-one-s-friends-and/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/for-relationships-too-must-be-like-islands-one-must-accept-them-for/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive than three.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/one-cannot-collect-all-the-beautiful-shells-on-the-beach-one-can-only/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) > [Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/why-do-progress-and-beauty-have-to-be-so-opposed/) [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/middle-age/anne-morrow-lindbergh/#itemlist", "name": "4 Middle age Quotes By anne morrow lindbergh", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? 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