354 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It’s funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well.

Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all.

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery – the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you’re content to do it very very slowly.

I feel we are all islands – in a common sea.

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. Here she will be able to refind her strength, the strength she needs to look and work at the second half of the problem – the neglected pure relationship. Only a refound person can refind a personal relationship.

Him that I love, I wish to be free – even from me.

The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes – purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience – and will not change as they change.