Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.”

“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.”

“One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.”

“Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.”

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

“Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.”

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

“There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time ha...”

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

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

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

“One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.”

“Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.”