Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

We care less about situations that are complex, difficult to tell and difficult to understand.

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about.

Making a film confusing does not make it intelligent.

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

I deal out of a reality that isn't real. I'm sorry. I don't know what that means. I don't really know what I do.

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

I'm not like, 'I act.' I'm like, 'I'm kinda floating. I kinda did this movie; it was kinda like going to camp, and I don't really know what any of this means!'

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

Why should things be easy to understand?

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to look for another kind of truth, and the moment I find, the moment I am separated from that life, the moment I am sort of in a world, every time I have gone out and performed in the, in the cinema for example, if you do two or three films on the trot you suddenly have this impression that you're becoming separate or separated from the world around you.

I don't really know what Hollywood is. I've never really known.

Am I lost or just less found?

He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

Real spiritual journey in life is the discovery of self. I think once you take all the religious bullshit away from Jesus Christ, it's saying it's about this journey of discovering who you are, and what's really important in life is simply love. That the journey of civilization, the journey of understanding, is forgiveness, is empathy. And that's what humanity is striving for.

I'm not dating anyone. I don't even know where I am half of the time.