For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. For… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive than three.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
