Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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