For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting;… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“But the bond—the bond of romantic love is something else. It has so little to do with propinquity or habit or space… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits -… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“One learns first of all in beach living the art of sheding;how little one can get along with, not how much…To say-is… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The only real security is not in owning or possessing, no in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“A day out of season, stopping the monotonous count of summer days. Stopping, too, one's own summer routine, so that, looking out… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“One comes in the end to realize that there is no permanent pure-relationship and there should not be. It is not even… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“People are like that here. Strangers smile at you on the beach, come up and offer you a shell, for no reason,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—no—but beach-wise. It… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“For life today in America is based on the premise of ever-widening circles of contact and communication. It involves not only family… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement in the same… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“One must lose one's life to find it. Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is...… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. If one is recognized everywhere,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“remind me that woman must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities; that she must… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“These values are signposts toward another way of living: simplicity of living, as much as possible, to retain a true awareness of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality.… — anne morrow lindbergh Copy Share
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
“Is it not rather ugly, one may ask? One collects material possessions not only for security, comfort or vanity, but for beauty as well.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
“It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity, faith and security.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
“One comes in the end to realize that there is no permanent pure-relationship and there should not be. It is not even something to… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive than three.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
