Anne Morrow LindberghHim that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me. ✨ Even - (1956)363Love
Anne Morrow LindberghWe seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or televsion to fill up the void.… ▶363Philosophy
Anne Morrow LindberghWoman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone. ✨ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). GIFT FROM THE SEA353Truth
Anne Morrow LindberghOnly when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.375Reading
Anne Morrow LindberghTo give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.353Politics
Anne Morrow LindberghHow inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or … ▶376ReflectionTime
Anne Morrow LindberghWhen 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. Only when one is connected to one's own… ▶332Philosophy
Anne Morrow LindberghI have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the l… ▶332Life
Anne Morrow LindberghThe loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. ✨ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). Hour of… ▶365Life
Anne Morrow LindberghI do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, … ▶321Love
Anne Morrow LindberghAnd if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic. <… ▶332Death
Anne Morrow LindberghPeople talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. ✨ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). Locked rooms and open doors, Not Avail333HumanityLove
Anne Morrow LindberghThe world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime … ▶322PoliticsTime
Anne Morrow Lindbergh# I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to complet… ▶323Philosophy
Anne Morrow LindberghMy Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. ✨ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). GIFT FROM THE SEA334HumanityLifeLove
Anne Morrow LindberghOnly love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.334Love
Anne Morrow LindberghHow one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity. ✨ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). Gift from the Sea, p.33, Random H… ▶334Thought
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 Morro… ▶367Humor
Anne Morrow LindberghNo one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free… ▶357LifeLove
Anne Morrow LindberghIt is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.335Humor
Anne Morrow LindberghPerhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. ✨ ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). BRING ME A UNIC… ▶379Hope
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 (1967). SELECTIONS… ▶379Politics
Anne Morrow LindberghFor happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. ✨ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). Locked rooms and open doors, Not Avail379Life
Anne Morrow LindberghWomen need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. ✨ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). Wisdom from Gift from the Sea, p.28, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.357PhilosophyTruth
Anne Morrow LindberghLife is a gift, given in trust - like a child.358Life
Anne Morrow LindberghI am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its… ▶369LoveTime
Anne Morrow LindberghIt takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.314Death
Anne Morrow LindberghThe most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ✨ Gift from the Sea. Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Chapter 2, 1955.3710LifeReading
Anne Morrow LindberghThe beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think. ✨ Gift from the Sea.314ReadingThought
Anne Morrow LindberghLost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.293Time
