Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.

We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I just like to be alone sometimes and think.

Solitude helps you reflect.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

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

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

I am ready to be alone.