Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“There are certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“It's as if you've been walking against a great wind all your life, and then the wind is gone, and you can't… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
One can never pay in gratitude; one can pay in kind somewhere else in life. — 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
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
“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
“Woman's life today is tending more and more toward ... 'Zerrissenheit'--torn to pieces-hood. She cannot live perpetually in 'Zerrissenheit.' She will be… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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 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
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
“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
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75 Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad… — 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
My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“For the natural selectivity of the island I will have to substitute a conscious selectivity based on another sense of values –… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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
“For the natural selectivity of the island I will have to substitute a conscious selectivity based on another sense of values -… — 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
“it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.” — 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
