Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One must lose ones life in order to find it.

Duration is not a test of true or false.

People died all the time. ... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes the fire had gone out ... you always knew when you made a decision against life. ... The door clicked and you were safe inside- safe and dead.

One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesnt subdue you and make you feel abject. Its stimulating loneliness.

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete ones resources it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with ones husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

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.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

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.

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.

Womans normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.

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

Dont wish me happiness - I dont expect to be happy its gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

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

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.

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

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.

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