Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man. Anne Morrow Lindbergh More Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh More Quotes From Anne Morrow Lindbergh Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds. Anne Morrow Lindbergh greatest-love couple inspirational 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. Anne Morrow Lindbergh selfish nature years Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air. Anne Morrow Lindbergh air rivers world My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another. Anne Morrow Lindbergh real diaries thinking Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone. Anne Morrow Lindbergh age I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199 Anne Morrow Lindbergh joy long thinking there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler. Anne Morrow Lindbergh aristocracy grief Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. Anne Morrow Lindbergh trust life children If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. Anne Morrow Lindbergh focus-and-concentration letting-go life I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. Anne Morrow Lindbergh powerful education writing No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes? Anne Morrow Lindbergh leaving space needs Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse. Anne Morrow Lindbergh time running funny We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now. Anne Morrow Lindbergh dancer real lying People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that -- just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden. Anne Morrow Lindbergh flower strong people When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence. Anne Morrow Lindbergh being-alone silence spring The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears. Anne Morrow Lindbergh wall cat animal The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. Anne Morrow Lindbergh love-life vanity intellectual It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before. Anne Morrow Lindbergh solitude practice art People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times. Anne Morrow Lindbergh taken mean people Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships. Anne Morrow Lindbergh essence spring order
