Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Person Quotes

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The feeling of exultant joy that there is anyone like that in the world. I shall never see him again, and he did not notice me, or would ever, but there is such a person alive, there is such a life, and I am here on this earth, in this age, to know it!

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I have come to believe that you can get along without anyone — that is, without the close contact of any one person. That is a terrible shock to me, but I think it is true. You do need companionship, but wherever you go, in whatever new environment, you will find people who, to a large degree, take the place of those you left... The intimate companionship goes, I think, when you leave a friend, but friendship stays. It is an inherent possibility of relationship that, once admitted — well, there it is.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Communication with another person — wasn't it the realest thing in life?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh