Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.”

“You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.”

“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, l...”

“When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.”

“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.”

“What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under con...”

“How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.”

“The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general...”

“Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”

“For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.”

“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.”

“Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier brea...”

“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”

“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.”

“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.”

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”

“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...”

“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.”

“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.”

“To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.”