But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.
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 encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent.
Anne Morrow LindberghFor happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Anne Morrow LindberghOnly 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.
Anne Morrow LindberghFame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.
Anne Morrow LindberghIt is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh