Top 200 Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Yesterday’s fairy tale is today’s fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

102. “I do not like talking casually to people – it does not interest me – and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

103. “For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

104. “Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

105. “Failures aren’t failures if you learn something from them...”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

106. “Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

108. “Certain springs are tapped only when you’re alone.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

109. “Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

110. “God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

111. “The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

112. “Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can’t enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

113. “Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

114. “Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

115. “And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves – it will always remain magic.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

116. “When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

117. “Packing is chiefly planning – if it is.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

118. “No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

119. “Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

120. “Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

121. “One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

122. “Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

123. “Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

124. “What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It’s all in the mind and you never see it or feel it – only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

125. “I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

126. “America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

127. “One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

128. “My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

129. “Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

130. “In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

131. “Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

132. “No man is an island,′ said John Donne. I feel we are all islands – in a common sea.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

133. “It is not the desert island nor the stony wilderness that cuts you from the people you love. It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

134. “To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

135. “Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us – many days, many nights of stars.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

136. “Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. “In love-ness” is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about “happy” and “unhappy” marriages.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

137. “Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century. Yet, the problem is particularly and essentially woman’s. Distraction is, always has been, and probably always will be, inherent in woman’s life.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

138. “Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

139. “God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

140. “I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

141. “Milky and opaque, it has the pinkish bloom of the sky on a summer evening, ripening to rain.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

142. “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

143. “You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

144. “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.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

145. “Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. Here she will be able to refind her strength, the strength she needs to look and work at the second half of the problem – the neglected pure relationship. Only a refound person can refind a personal relationship.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

146. “I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much that our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going “down the drain.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

147. “The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes – purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience – and will not change as they change.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

148. “Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

149. “Is it not rather ugly, one may ask? One collects material possessions not only for security, comfort or vanity, but for beauty as well. Is your sea-shell house not ugly and bare? No, it is beautiful, my house. It is bare, of course, but the wind, the sun, the smell of the pines blow through its bareness. The unfinished beams in the roof are veiled by cobwebs. They are lovely, I think, gazing up at them with new eyes;.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

150. “The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh