Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

Live uncluttered lives so you could have time for what is most important.

I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day.

Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

I'll say life is simpler.

Avoid trivia.

I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

The whole world, it's a problem that there's too much stuff being produced. We don't have time to reflect on the important things in life.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

It's important to keep life simple, and if I'm traveling, I only can do a couple of things, and those are the things that I'm meant to be doing.

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits.

We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the “thick of thin things.” In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

You've got to keep reminding yourself of what's important.

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

I’m not as cool as you think I think I might be – and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b.s. And art’s kind of important, too.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.