Duration is not a test of true or false.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and me and Harold and Martha. That can be never filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I believe that true identity is found. . . In creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refined herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

— 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.

— 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.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh