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
“There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.” — 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life? — 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
“There are certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.” — 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
“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
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
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
Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
