American - Writer | June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001
It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
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One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
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I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
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America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
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Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. 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.
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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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