Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

War is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

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

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Communication with another person
wasn't it the realest thing in life?

I walked far down the beach, soothed by the rhythm of the waves, the sun on my bare back and legs, the wind and mist from the spray on my hair.

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

So many things we love are you!

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of "coming of age" -to learn how to stand alone.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them ...

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

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

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize.

Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

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.

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.

Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century.

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

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

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

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

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

Milky and opaque, it has the pinkish bloom of the sky on a summer evening, ripening to rain.

Woman must come of age by herself
she must find her true center alone.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

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

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

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?

I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.

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

No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.

The final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

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

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.

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy!

There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.

Packing is chiefly planning
if it is

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

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

People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

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

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare ... a book can take you anywhere.

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

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

It's as if you've been walking against a great wind all your life, and then the wind is gone, and you can't walk.

God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.

Life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

The acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty

Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.

I feel a hunger now- a real hunger-for letting the pool still itself & seeing the reflections.

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

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change

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

Every step, even a tentative one, counts.

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

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

Writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

I want to be pure in heart
but I like to wear my purple dress.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection ...

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?