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.

Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Topics: Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish...

Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish...

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

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

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

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

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat...

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat...

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between...

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between...

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early...

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early...

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

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

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way...

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the...

Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish...

Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the...

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops...

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops...

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

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

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat...

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat...

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting,...

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting,...

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen -...

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen -...

I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer,...

I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer,...

Photoshop will not save you from future embarrassment.

Photoshop will not save you from future embarrassment.