anne morrow lindbergh

I think best with a pencil in my hand.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

So many things we love are you!

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Every step, even a tentative one, counts.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When you love someone . . .

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Duration is not a test of true or false.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

— 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

the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“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

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky -…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us -…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns;…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

“Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75 Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The desire forcontinuity of being-loved-alone seems to me "the error bred in the bone" of man. For "there is no one-and-only, as…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under…

— 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

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

“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

“If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that…

— 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…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“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

“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

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh