Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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1906-06-22 – 2001-02-07

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author and aviator known for works including Gift from the Sea. She was also an accomplished pilot who flew and navigated with Charles Lindbergh on pioneering long-distance flights.

Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is the wilderness inthe mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is astranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then onecannot touch others.
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The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.
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You can't just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else's appreciation.
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The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.
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It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
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Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
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The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
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it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
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The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.
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The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
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it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.
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The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
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You can't just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else's appreciation.
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It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
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It is the wilderness inthe mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is astranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then onecannot touch others.
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Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.
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