Anne Morrow Lindbergh was a pioneering American aviator, author, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“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.”
“Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.”
“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.”
“My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen - no retouching, no shadows, no flattery - just stark me”
“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.”
“Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.”
“I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly”
“For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.”
“A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.”