354 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.

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

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

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

We walk up the beach under the stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy—even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.

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. The more one gives, the more one has the give - like milk in the breast.