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Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

Anne Morrow Lindbergh quotes

American Writer June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001

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The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote: "Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child."
Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
They had a gun; they had a plane - powerful as any genii to be summoned from a magic lamp. And yet, magic rests on a knife-edge - a lamp, a tinderbox, an "open sesame." It is a hair-bridge between captivity and escape; safety and danger; life and death. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote: "One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind'..."
One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote: "My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the..."
My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote: "The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being..."
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote: "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote: "Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't..."
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Don'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 Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote: "For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a..."
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. 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. There is only one moon in the sky. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I 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 knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not... Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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