Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes - Page 3

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.

Fame separates you from life.

When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

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

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

One must lose one's life to find it.

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

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.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

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.

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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

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

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.

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.

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