Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ”

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. ”

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. ”

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

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. ”

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. ”

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

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. ”

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

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. ”