3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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.
3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
