Anne Morrow Lindbergh
» Airplane and Aviation » “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.”
» Bosses and Employees » “By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”
» Communication » “Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”
» Courage » “It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”
» Focus » “If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.”
» Future » “The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.”
» Future » “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.”
» Giving » “To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.”
» Gratitude » “One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ”in kind” somewhere else in life.”
» Grief » “Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.”
» Patience » “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.”
» Scarcity » “One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few.”
» Security » “Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”
» Self-knowledge » “When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.”
» Truth » “Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.”
