Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

# "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.

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.

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

It is the wilderness inthe mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is astranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then onecannot touch others.

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