Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes
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He could leap the corral,If he roseTo his full height;He could splinter the fencing light,With three blowsOf his porcelain hoofs in flight - If he chose.He could shatter his prison wall,Could escape them all - If he rose,If he chose.
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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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. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.
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One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
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We must relearn to be alone.
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Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
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Forgotten the strife;Now the need to killHas died like fire,And the need to loveHas replaced desire
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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.
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Dearly beloved - late again!
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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. … 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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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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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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I … understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has primarily to do with distractions … Women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life or saintly life.