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“It doesn't matter that it can't last, that we don't find it more often. To know that there is such perfection, that there has been such perfection — it is worth living for. It exists. It has been — it is. One can contemplate it and feel complete peace.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)

“I wonder why I bother to tell the truth when people ask me what I think of this and that and how I feel about this and that. I get so complicated and introspective that people often don't understand and are frankly puzzled and (naturally enough) bored. So why bother! It would be so much easier to say what they expected you to, and everything would be easy and pleasant.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)

“I kept looking at the flowers in a vase near me: lavender sweet peas, fragile winged and yet so still, so perfectly poised, apart, and complete. They are self-sufficient, a world in themselves, a whole — perfect. Is that then, perfection? Is what those sweet peas had what I have, occasionally in moments like that? But flowers always have it — poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection; I only occasionally, like that moment. For that moment I and the sweet peas had an understanding.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)

“We were high above fields, and there far, far below, was a small shadow as of a great bird tearing along the neatly marked off fields. It gave me the most tremendous shock to realize for the first time the terrific speed we were going at and that that shadow meant us — us, like a mirror! That "bird"”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

it was us.
On her first flight.
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)

“Life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

War Within and Without (1980)

“Dearly beloved — late again!”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Dearly Beloved

Dearly Beloved (1962) First lines.

“People don't want to be understood — I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)

“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The Wave of the Future (1940)

“I have come to believe that you can get along without anyone — that is, without the close contact of any one person. That is a terrible shock to me, but I think it is true. You do need companionship, but wherever you go, in whatever new environment, you will find people who, to a large degree, take the place of those you left…The intimate companionship goes, I think, when you leave a friend, but friendship stays. It is an inherent possibility of relationship that, once admitted — well, there it is.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)

“Here sits the Unicorn;
The wounds in his side
Still bleed”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The Unicorn in Captivity (1955)

“I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, 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 of life is one of them.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea

Gift from the Sea (1955)

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The Wave of the Future (1940)