354 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.

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?

It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.