354 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and -- from time immemorial--the woman.

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.

It is the wilderness inthe mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is astranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then onecannot touch others.

If one sets aside timefor a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition,that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone,one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when beingalone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that onepractices it—like a secret vice!

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.

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.

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.