Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindberghwas an American author, aviator, and the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh. She was an acclaimed author whose books and articles spanned the genres of poetry to non-fiction, touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment, as well as the role of women in the 20th century. Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea is a popular inspirational book, reflecting on the lives of American women...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 June 1906
CountryUnited States of America
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quotes about
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.
Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.
Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear...
Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.
the nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too ...
People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.