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
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 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
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
“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 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
Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. — 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
...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
...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
“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
“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
I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not… — 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
Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait… — 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
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
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
“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
“To ask how little, not how much, can I get along with. To say—is it necessary?—when I am tempted to add one… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life. — 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
“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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
