Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

I've become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because... I've been having so many conversations about the cyclical nature of life. It just keeps going.

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.