Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Related Quotes:

" To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" 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. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" 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

" The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" 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. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" 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. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh