Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others.... And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

There is no harvest for the heart alone; The seed of love must be eternally resown.

Love is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.

People "died" all the time.... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions -- decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out... You always knew when you made a decision against life.... The door clicked and you were safe inside -- safe and dead.

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.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.