Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American Author

Lived from: 1906 - 2001

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 22 june 1906 Died: 7 february 2001

  • The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
  • I 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, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
  • The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

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  • A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
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  • After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
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  • 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.
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  • Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
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  • For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
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  • For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
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  • Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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  • Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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  • Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
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  • Him that I love, I wish to be
    Free -
    Even from me.
    Even- (1966)
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  • I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
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  • I 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, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
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  • I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
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  • I 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 last light.
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  • I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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  • If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
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  • It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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What are the most famous quotes from Anne Morrow Lindbergh?

The two most famous quotes from Anne Morrow Lindbergh are:

  • "A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side."
  • "After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood."

When did Anne Morrow Lindbergh live?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906 and died in the year 2001.