Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)

Quotes

• If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

• 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.

• A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

• Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

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

• My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me.

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

• The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.