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Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes: 9

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
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.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
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.
Gift from the Sea
it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
Gift from the Sea
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.