WIST Quotations

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) American writer, pilot
(Attributed)

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow -- Gift From the Sea (1955)

Dave — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:48:05 +0000

The world today does not understand, in either man or woman, the need to be alone. How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it — like a secret vice!

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) American writer, pilot
Gift From the Sea (1955)
(Source)

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow -- Gift From the Sea, ch. 6 “Argonauta” (1955)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) American writer, pilot
Gift From the Sea, ch. 6 “Argonauta” (1955)
(Source)

Often misquoted as "is as stimulating" or "is just as stimulating as."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow -- Gifts from the Sea (1955)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere..

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) American writer, pilot
Gifts from the Sea (1955)

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow -- The Wave of the Future (1940)

Dave — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 23:18:45 +0000

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) American writer, pilot
The Wave of the Future (1940)
(Source)

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow -- The Wave of the Future (1940)

Dave — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:36:27 +0000

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change. For change is the very essence of living matter. To resist change is to sin against life itself.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) American writer, pilot
The Wave of the Future (1940)
(Source)

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow -- Diary (1932-09-27), Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead (1973)

Dave — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:18:01 +0000

It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) American writer, pilot
Diary (1932-09-27), Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead (1973)
(Source)

Approximately six months after the kidnapping/murder of her son, Charles, Jr., and a month after the birth of her second son, Jon.