354 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one’s resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

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

Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. 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.

I do not like talking casually to people – it does not interest me – and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music – then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.

Who is not afraid of pure space – that breathtaking empty space of an open door?

One comes in the end to realize that there is no permanent pure-relationship and there should not be. It is not even something to be desired. The pure relationship is limited, in space and in time. In its essence it implies exclusion. It excludes the rest of life, other relationships, other sides of personality, other responsibilities, other possibilities in the future. It excludes growth.

I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much that our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going “down the drain.