anne morrow lindbergh

“I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem…

— anne morrow lindbergh

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

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Is it not rather ugly, one may ask? One collects material possessions not only for security, comfort or vanity, but for beauty…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

“It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity, faith…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“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

It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits -…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“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

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“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

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh