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I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.
— 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 the hand.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.
— 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
One longs to explain, to be sure they understand, the people one loves.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Both halves of this delicate bivalve are exactly matched. Each side, like the wing of a butterfly, is marked with the
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
So many things we love are you!
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of "coming of age" -to learn how to stand alone.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them ...
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
People talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.
— 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 time inwardly attentive.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.
— 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 and it goes to items.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I think best with a pencil in my hand.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Every step, even a tentative one, counts.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In our family an experience was not finished, nor truly experienced, unless written down and shared with another.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We all wish to be loved alone.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I feel a hunger now- a real hunger-for letting the pool still itself & seeing the reflections.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I want to be pure in heart but I like to wear my purple dress. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Am seeking perhaps what Socrates asked for in the prayer from the Phaedrus when he said, May the outward and inward man be at one.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Woman must come of age by herself she must find her true center alone. — 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 to in the eye of God.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too ...
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ...
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection ...
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One cannot collect all the beautful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.
— 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 walk.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.
— 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 United States.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Milky and opaque, it has the pinkish bloom of the sky on a summer evening, ripening to rain.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.
— 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
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Travel Far, Pay No Fare ... a book can take you anywhere.
— 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, then one cannot touch others.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.
— 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
For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
