The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Gift from the Sea

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Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights.

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

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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