354 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.

Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.

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

Yesterday’s fairy tale is today’s fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

I walked far down the beach, soothed by the rhythm of the waves, the sun on my bare back and legs, the wind and mist from the spray on my hair.

It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.

I can conceive of ‘falling in love’ over and over again. But ‘marriage,’ this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again – or with anyone else. In this sense ‘marriage’ seems to me indissoluble.

I felt a kind of impersonal kinship with them and a joy in that kinship. Beauty of earth and sea and air meant more to me. I was in harmony with it, melted into the universe, lost in it, as one is lost in a canticle of praise, swelling from an unknown crowd in a cathedral. ‘Praise ye the Lord, all ye fishes of the sea – all ye birds of the air – all ye children of men – Praise ye the Lord!’ Yes, I felt closer to my fellow men too, even in my solitude.