"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh