Quotes from Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

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.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

Duration is not a test of true or false.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.

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.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

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.

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.

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.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.