Anne Morrow Lindbergh was a pioneering American aviator, author, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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“What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.”
“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.”
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“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”
“One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.”
“When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.”
“A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.”
“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”
“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”
“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”