22 June: Anne Morrow Lindberg

The writer Anne Morrow Lindberg was born on 22 June 1906 - so here are 10 quotes from her.

1. The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
2. For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
3. 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.
4. Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
5. Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
6. I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
7. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
8. I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
9. It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
10. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.