Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

The very pointlessness of a sea walk is it's attractiveness to me.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

A calming place, where you can go to escape it all and just focus on your body, is so wonderful to have.

I like listening to ambient music, especially in very scenic places because I think it allows for the most freedom of thought.

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

I see people's need to dream, people's need to escape - you see it! That's why people come to comedy shows, that's why they come to your movies ... We're so needed in this world. Not as much as medicine , but to dream for a while.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

Relax," Langdon whispered. "Do your piranha thing.

I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

What I really like to do is to sit quietly and write. All that other stuff is a problem. Publication to reception to negotiation to... everything, it's a problem. And I like to sit outside for long periods of time and just be in the tranquility of nature. That's what I like.

O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

I think I'm generally more inspired when I'm away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your room with your phones and screens shut off, I think that quietness is often very inspiring.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.