Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

Him that I love, I wish to be free - even from me.

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

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

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.

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.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Woman must come of age by herself - she must find her true center alone.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize.

I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.