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Adversity
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It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Bravery
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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Charity
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To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Communication
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift From The Sea
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Concentration
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If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Flight, Flying
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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.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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One could sit still and look at life from the air; that was it. And I was conscious again of the fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. What motion there was took on a slow grace, like slow-motion pictures which catch the moment of outstretched beauty that one cannot see in life itself, so swiftly does it move.
And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down to the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient, 1935
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Future, The
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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.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Gratitude
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One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Grief, Grieving
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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Patience
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Relationships
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The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Religion
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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.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Seasons
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Only with winter-patience can we bring
The deep desired, long-awaited spring.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Security
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Solitude
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It is not physical solitude that actually separates one from others; not physical isolation, but spiritual isolation. It is not the desert island nor the stony wilderness that cuts you from the people you love. It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. 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. How often in a large city, shaking hands with my friends, I have felt the wilderness stretching between us. Both of us were wandering in arid wastes, having lost the springs that nourished us -- or having found them dry. Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
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Truth
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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Value
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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 a few.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Work
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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.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Books by and about Anne Morrow Lindbergh