1906-, American Author
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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Future]


By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Bosses and Employees]


Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Truth]


Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Communication]


Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Grief]


If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Focus]


It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Courage]


One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ''in kind'' somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Gratitude]


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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Scarcity]


Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Security]


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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Patience]


The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Future]


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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Airplane and Aviation]


To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Giving]


When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – [Self-knowledge]