AMAnne Morrow Lindbergh

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life dates: 1906 AD — 2001 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1953 AD

The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.

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02c. 1953 AD

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

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03c. 1953 AD

Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego.

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04c. 1953 AD

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

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05c. 1953 AD

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.

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06c. 1953 AD

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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07c. 1953 AD

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

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08c. 1953 AD

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

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09c. 1953 AD

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.

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10c. 1953 AD

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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11c. 1953 AD

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

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12c. 1953 AD

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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13c. 1953 AD

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

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14c. 1953 AD

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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15c. 1953 AD

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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16c. 1953 AD

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid each cycle of the wave is valid each cycle of a relationship is valid.

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17c. 1953 AD

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.

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18c. 1953 AD

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

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