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? Anne Morrow Lindbergh More Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh More Quotes From Anne Morrow Lindbergh The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too. Anne Morrow Lindbergh nice intelligent people I think best with a pencil in my hand. Anne Morrow Lindbergh writing hands thinking 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. Anne Morrow Lindbergh love two moving I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them. Anne Morrow Lindbergh fighting self giving ... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible. Anne Morrow Lindbergh transition pain firsts ... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin. Anne Morrow Lindbergh light morning moving The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering. Anne Morrow Lindbergh knees suffering world ... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking. Anne Morrow Lindbergh writing talking thinking And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh clue perfect-days giving Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life? Anne Morrow Lindbergh things-in-life communication persons What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk. Anne Morrow Lindbergh sleep blue writing Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. Anne Morrow Lindbergh kind creative losing To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force. Anne Morrow Lindbergh deeply-in-love force love-is No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ. Anne Morrow Lindbergh partisanship disciple christ Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing. Anne Morrow Lindbergh tired cutting night But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself. Anne Morrow Lindbergh want desire peace For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another. Anne Morrow Lindbergh our-family down-and diaries I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear. Anne Morrow Lindbergh grief weight air Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock. Anne Morrow Lindbergh rocks feelings earthquakes Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid. Anne Morrow Lindbergh important memories beach
