A biography for Anne Morrow Lindberghhasn’t been written yet.
“Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.”
“The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now.”
“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.”
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”
“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.”
“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.”
“All living relationships are in process ofchange, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms. But there is no singlefixed form to express such a changing relationship.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.”
“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.”
“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”
“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”
“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.”
“The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.”
“There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.”
“It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.”
“Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.”
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
“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.”