If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when Bangalore is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

— 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 Lindbergh

It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing. It looks rather like the house of a big family, pushing out one addition after another to hold its teeming life - here a sleeping porch for the children, and there is a veranda for the play-pen; here is a garage for the extra car and there a shed for the bicycles. It amuses me because it seems so much like my life at the moment, like most women's lives in the middle years of marriage. Furthermore, it is untidy, spread out in all directions, heavily encrusted with accumulations....

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

... I want first - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central cor to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. Furthermore, I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints -to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. Furthermore, I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace, I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony...

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh