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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

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