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Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

«I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Keywords: islands
«For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Keywords: shallow
«One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Keywords: in kind
«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.»
«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.»
«A Good Relationship Has a Pattern Like a DanceA good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart's. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand; only the barest touch in passing. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back -- it does not matter which. Because they know they are partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it.»
«When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.»
«Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.»
«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»

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