anne morrow lindbergh

Fame separates you from life.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One must lose one's life to find it.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love is a force… It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight…

— 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

Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like…

— 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

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

Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Every relationship seems simple at its start. Two people listening to each other, two shells meeting each other, making one world between…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“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

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“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

“And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as well admit…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“For Sayonara , literally translated, 'Since it must be so,' of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“For the natural selectivity of the island I will have to substitute a conscious selectivity based on another sense of values -…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh