Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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. ”

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. ”

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

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. ”

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force. ”

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. ”