Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”

“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.”

“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”

“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.”

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

“After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.”

“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”

“To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.”

“The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.”