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 We must relearn to be alone. Anne Morrow Lindbergh loneliness I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it. Anne Morrow Lindbergh growing-up children people Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt. Anne Morrow Lindbergh disguise pain suffering I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God. Anne Morrow Lindbergh eye spiritual giving How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. Anne Morrow Lindbergh interdependence strong beautiful 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. Anne Morrow Lindbergh inspirational giving order Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings. Anne Morrow Lindbergh luxury spiritual war The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh contemplative-life running children I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?) Anne Morrow Lindbergh different feelings people Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit — qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected. Anne Morrow Lindbergh heart men america How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity. Anne Morrow Lindbergh rejection hate thinking America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. Anne Morrow Lindbergh today america world The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty. Anne Morrow Lindbergh acquisition appreciation facts The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country. Anne Morrow Lindbergh race mean country One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy. Anne Morrow Lindbergh nice time thinking The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. Anne Morrow Lindbergh childhood mind heart Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground. Anne Morrow Lindbergh stars flower rain Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. Anne Morrow Lindbergh yesterday today facts I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress. Anne Morrow Lindbergh purple dresses heart Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door? Anne Morrow Lindbergh breathtaking space doors
