Top 200 Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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2. “The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

3. “Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

4. “My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

5. “And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

6. “The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

7. “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

8. “We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

9. “Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

11. “One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

12. “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.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

13. “Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

14. “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.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

15. “Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

16. “Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

17. “Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people – It just isn’t living at all.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

18. “When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

19. “Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear...”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

20. “When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

21. “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

22. “It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

23. “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.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

24. “I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

25. “To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky – complete peace, complete fulfillment.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

26. “Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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27. “We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

28. “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.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

29. “It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

30. “Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

31. “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.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

32. “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

33. “Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

34. “The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

35. “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

36. “Only when one is connected to one’s inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

37. “So many things we love are you!”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

38. “A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

39. “Solitude, says the moon shell. Every person, especially every woman, should be alone sometime during the year, some part of each week, and each day.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

40. “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

41. “Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you’re off, that’s all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

42. “It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy!”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

43. “Who is not afraid of pure space – that breathtaking empty space of an open door?”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

44. “One must lose one’s life in order to find it.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

45. “Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery – the epitome of breaking into new worlds.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

46. “The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

47. “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

48. “If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea...”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

49. “Yesterday I sat in a field of violets for a long time perfectly still, until I really sank into it – into the rhythm of the place, I mean – then when I got up to go home I couldn’t walk quickly or evenly because I was still in time with the field.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

50. “There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh