Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

It took me a while to find myself.

Working with the doctors is a fascinating two-way process. I am interested in what they suggest about why I'm the way I am. But if they could make me 'normal', I wouldn't want that. I've been like this for so long, it's what makes me .

The only journey is the one within.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.