About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.


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The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abj...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass a...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, th...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
If one sets aside time
for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engageme...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to c...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
I feel a hunger now- a real hunger-for letting the pool still itself & seeing the reflections.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can expres...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine cultur...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely ma...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is love...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of int...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is th...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I w...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wis...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet ne...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell o...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
A Good Relationship Has a Pattern Like a DanceA good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can expres...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour.. ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposel...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical close...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
The most exhausting thing in life is insincerity
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning sun can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like wri...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of soc...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasure...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Giving opens the way for receiving.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES
You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'St...
CHARLES DANCE
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
CHARLES DICKENS
How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON
Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON
'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON