The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Topics: Patience
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Topics: Friendship
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Topics: Thinking
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Topics: Bravery, Courage, Mistakes, Success, Failures
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
Topics: Adversity, Courage
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Topics: Sleep
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay “in kind” somewhere else in life.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Topics: Gratitude
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Topics: Time Management, Value of Time
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Topics: Religion
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Topics: Future, The Future
Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Don’t wish me happiness.
I don’t expect to be happy all the time…
It’s gotten beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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