Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

"How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone."

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."

"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."

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

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."

"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 it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."

"Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars."

"What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of."