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

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  • Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
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  • Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
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  • One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ''in kind'' somewhere else in life.
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  • One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
    Gift from the Sea (1955) p. 114
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  • Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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  • People don't want to be understood, I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left.
    Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
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  • The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
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  • 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.
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  • The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
    Gift from the Sea (1955) ch. 2
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  • The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
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  • 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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  • The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.
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  • The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
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  • There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
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  • Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
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  • To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
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  • 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.
    Gift from the Sea (1955)
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