354 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

We must relearn to be alone.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

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

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea...