354 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole.

Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.