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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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More quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- 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.
- Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
- I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
- Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
- Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.