Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

The American woman is still relatively free to choose the wider life. How long she will hold this enviable and precarious position no one knows. But her particular situation has a significance far above its apparent economic, national or even sex limitations.

We all wish to be loved alone.

Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.

Here sits the Unicorn — In captivity?
In repose.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other (one perfect sunrise gazing at another!) but in looking outward together in the same direction.

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

Every step, even a tentative one, counts.

Woman must come of age by herself — she must find her true center alone.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Here sits the Unicorn
In captivity,
Yet free.

Charles Morgan describes as “the stilling of the soul within the activities of the mind and body so that it might be still as the axis of a revolving wheel is still.

Solitude, says the moon shell. Every person, especially every woman, should be alone sometime during the year, some part of each week, and each day.