Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born
in Englewood, New Jersey, The United States
June 22, 1906
Died
February 07, 2001
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Gift from the Sea
193 editions
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published
1955
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Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928
27 editions
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published
1972
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Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters, 1929-1932
24 editions
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published
1973
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North to the Orient
58 editions
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published
1935
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Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986
by
7 editions
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published
2012
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Wisdom from Gift from the Sea
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2002
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The Unicorn and Other Poems
24 editions
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published
1956
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Locked Rooms Open Doors: Diaries And Letters Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1933-1935
4 editions
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published
1974
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War Within & Without: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944
22 editions
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published
1980
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Dearly Beloved
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10 editions
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published
1962
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“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
― Gift from the Sea
― Gift from the Sea
“When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.
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 was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.”
― Gift from the Sea
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 was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.”
― Gift from the Sea
“Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”
― Gift from the Sea
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”
― Gift from the Sea
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