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 Strength
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Wedding
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Alone
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 Alone
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 Humor
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 Patience
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Courage
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Friendship
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 Courage
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Relationship
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Romantic
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Good
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Happiness
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Anniversary
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. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Morning
Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Relationship
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh Sympathy
