anne morrow lindbergh

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One must lose one's life to find it.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Fame separates you from life.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I think best with a pencil in my hand.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“There are certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. It leads not…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity, faith…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People "died" all the time. . . . Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life.…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The desire forcontinuity of being-loved-alone seems to me "the error bred in the bone" of man. For "there is no one-and-only, as…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75 Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring.…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing.…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I felt a kind of impersonal kinship with them and a joy in that kinship. Beauty of earth and sea and air…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“For the natural selectivity of the island I will have to substitute a conscious selectivity based on another sense of values –…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. I cannot marry all of…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh