Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindberghwas an American author, aviator, and the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh. She was an acclaimed author whose books and articles spanned the genres of poetry to non-fiction, touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment, as well as the role of women in the 20th century. Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea is a popular inspirational book, reflecting on the lives of American women...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 June 1906
CountryUnited States of America
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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.
Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.
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.
Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
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.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.