354 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again - or with anyone else. In this sense 'marriage' seems to me indissoluble.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.