Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932 (1973), p. 3
Source: Gift from the Sea
Context: 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. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.
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Famous Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes
“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.”
North to the Orient (1935) Ch. 19
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes about life
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
Source: Gift from the Sea (1955), Ch. 2; part of this statement has often been paraphrased: "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
Context: I find I am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be! 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.
Source: Gift from the Sea (1955)
Context: The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many other things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. I want to give and take from my children and husband, to share with friends and community, to carry out my obligations to man and to the world, as a woman, as an artist, as a citizen.
But I want first of all — in fact, as an end to these other desires — to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact — to borrow from the languages of the saints — to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.
Context: The shape of my life today starts with a family. I have a husband, five children and a home just beyond the suburbs of New York. I have also a craft, writing, and therefore work I want to pursue. The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many other things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. I want to give and take from my children and husband, to share with friends and community, to carry out my obligations to man and to the world, as a woman, as an artist, as a citizen.
But I want first of all — in fact, as an end to these other desires — to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact — to borrow from the languages of the saints — to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony. I am seeking perhaps what Socrates asked for in the prayer from Phaedrus when he said, "May the outward and the inward man be at one." 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.
Gift from the Sea (1955)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes about feelings
“No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.”
Source: Gift from the Sea
On Charles.
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
On her husband, Charles Lindbergh, in The New York Times (20 April 1980) http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/27/specials/lindbergh-jews.html
Gift from the Sea (1955)
Context: I believe most people are aware of periods in their lives when they seem to be "in grace" and other periods when they feel "out of grace," even though they may use different words to describe these states. In the first happy condition, one seems to carry all one’s tasks before one lightly, as if borne along on a great tide; and in the opposite state one can hardly tie a shoe-string. It is true that a large part of life consists in learning a technique of tying the shoe-string, whether one is in grace or not. But there are techniques of living too; there are even techniques in the search for grace.
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Trending quotes
As quoted in No More Words : A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2001) by Reeve Lindbergh, p. 41
Context: So dazzling was the spread of constellations that it had the impact of a vision, of some hidden insight. I drove home saying to myself: The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us — invisibly.
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient.”
Gift from the Sea (1955)
Context: The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.
“The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us — invisibly.”
As quoted in No More Words : A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2001) by Reeve Lindbergh, p. 41
Context: So dazzling was the spread of constellations that it had the impact of a vision, of some hidden insight. I drove home saying to myself: The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us — invisibly.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes
“One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.”
Gift from the Sea (1955)
Context: The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.
The Unicorn in Captivity (1955)
Context: Here sits the Unicorn;
Leashed by a chain of gold
To the pomengranate tree.
So light a chain to hold
So fierce a beast;
Delicate as a cross at rest
On a maiden's breast.
He could snap the golden chain
With one toss of his mane,
If he chose to move,
If he chose to prove
His liberty.
But he does not choose
What choice would lose.
He stays, the Unicorn,
In captivity.
The Unicorn in Captivity (1955)
Context: Here sits the Unicorn;
Leashed by a chain of gold
To the pomengranate tree.
So light a chain to hold
So fierce a beast;
Delicate as a cross at rest
On a maiden's breast.
He could snap the golden chain
With one toss of his mane,
If he chose to move,
If he chose to prove
His liberty.
But he does not choose
What choice would lose.
He stays, the Unicorn,
In captivity.
Letter to Corliss Lamont on her engagement (1928)
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
Source: Gift from the Sea
“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”
Variant: Good communication is just as stimulating as...
Source: Gift from the Sea (1955)
“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”
Source: Gift from the Sea
Source: Gift from the Sea
Variant: One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive than three. There is only one moon in the sky.
Source: Gift from the Sea (1955), p. 114
“The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.”
Source: Gift from the Sea
“Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.”
The Steep Ascent http://books.google.com/books?id=2vRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Lost+time+was+like+a+run+in+a+stocking+It+always+got+worse%22&pg=PA22#v=onepage (1944)
The Unicorn in Captivity (1955)
“Here sits the Unicorn
In captivity;
His bright invulnerability
Captive at last”
The Unicorn in Captivity (1955)
Gift from the Sea (1955)
The Unicorn in Captivity (1955)
Diary entry on the first anniversary of the kidnapping and death of her son Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (1 March 1932); later published in Locked Rooms and Open Doors (1974) ISBN 0156529564
Take up home gardening!"
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
War Within and Without (1980)
Source: Gift from the Sea (1955), Ch. 2
The Unicorn in Captivity (1955)
War Within and Without (1980)
On first meeting Charles.
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
it was us.
On her first flight.
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
“Life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.”
War Within and Without (1980)
“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”
The Wave of the Future (1940)
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
Gift from the Sea (1955)
