Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.

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

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.