Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?) — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
People "died" all the time. . . . Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and… — 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
I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves… — 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
people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog! — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to… — 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
