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Quotes from Gift from the Sea — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

1906–2001 United States

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11 quotes

One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.

Gift from the Sea (1955)

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Gift from the Sea (1955)

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

Gift from the Sea (1955)

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient.

Gift from the Sea (1955)

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

Gift from the Sea (1955)

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

Gift from the Sea (1955)

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

Gift from the Sea (1955)

I find I am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be! The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

Gift from the Sea (1955)

I believe most people are aware of periods in their lives when they seem to be "in grace" and other periods when they feel "out of grace," even though they may use different words to describe these states.

Gift from the Sea (1955)

I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

Gift from the Sea (1955)

We must relearn to be alone.

Gift from the Sea (1955)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.