Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

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

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

If you do not go within, you without

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

You must walk alone to find your soul.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.

In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

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

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

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

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

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

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.