Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

I'm always helping out girlfriends, and then I'm wondering, who's going to look after me?

The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.

We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.

As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.

I love myself, therefore, I behave in a loving way to all people for I know that that which I give out returns to me multiplied.

Today I will practice healthy giving, understanding that caretaking and compulsive giving don't work. I choose what I want to give, to whom, when, and how much. It takes time to learn how to give in healthy ways. It takes time to learn to receive. Balance will come.

Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.

Service heals the recipient and the giver.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens

As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.

The other day I went to a school in Harlem to talk to some 7th graders [12-year-olds] and I said, ‘If I have to give you some advice, the most important thing is: the sooner you become your own best friend, the better your life will be,’

Give now. Somewhere, someone feels crappy. You can help.

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

When anxiety drives our decisions, we cannot grow spiritually, emotionally, or mentally. When we open up our hearts and give to others, we give ourselves room to grow and thrive!

The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.

When you continue to give without receiving, the only thing you are proving is that you know how to be taken advantage of.

I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.