Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side."

"... I want first of all - 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. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints -to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. 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..."

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

"Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction... What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive."

"I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own."

"The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself."

"You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation."

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

"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."

"Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before."

"it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded."