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
For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms. But there is no… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“These values are signposts toward another way of living: simplicity of living, as much as possible, to retain a true awareness of… — 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
“When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It… — 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
“remind me that woman must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities; that she must… — 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
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
“One must lose one's life to find it. Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It… — 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
“And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—no—but beach-wise. It… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.” — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting;… — 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
“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
