Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#life

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present? ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#inspirational

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#inspirational #love #spiritual #woman #age

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

#always #am #asking #every #i

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#gratitude #kind #life #never #only

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#alone #burden #carries #everyone #grief

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#giving #herself #i #i believe #i believe that

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#alive #feel #get #loneliness #make

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#despair #even #flower #happiness #joy

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

#be happy #beyond #courage #expect #gotten