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We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on

We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Faith, Love Is

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints - to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Spiritual, Peace

"Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955.

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Letting Go, Focus And Concentration

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Being Yourself, Just Being

"Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Chapter 2, 1955.

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Waiting, Enjoy

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead”

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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Wearing A Mask, Social

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.21, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Relationship, Real

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.106, Random House

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, What Matters, Knowing

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Morning, Lakes

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Learning, Self

ANNE MORROW lINDBERGH (1973). “HOUR OF GOLD HOUR OF LEAD”

For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Islands, Sea