Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"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.

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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

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There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

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Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

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A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

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

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The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

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I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

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

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Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

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

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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.

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Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone.

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My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen -- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery -- just stark me.

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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.

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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

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