354 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely and snugly encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied—so complacent.

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Farewell is a father's good-by. It is - 'Go out in the world and do well, my son.' It is encouragement and admonition. It is hope and faith. But it passes over the significance of the moment; of parting it says nothing.

A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern.

The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

Him that I love, I wish to be free—even from me.

The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience and will not change as they change.