Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Who was Anne Morrow Lindbergh?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author, aviator, and the wife of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh. She was an acclaimed author whose books and articles spanned the genres of poetry to non-fiction, touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment, as well as the role of women in the 20th century. Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea is a popular inspirational book, reflecting on the lives of American women.

Famous Quotes:

• Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
• 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.
• 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.
• To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
• When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.
• Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
• 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.
• 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.
• Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.