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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is true that society in general does not help one accept this interpretation of the second half of life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have come to believe that you can get along without anyone — that is, without the close contact of any one person. That is a terrible shock to me, but I think it is true. You do need companionship, but wherever you go, in whatever new environment, you will find people who, to a large degree, take the place of those you left... The intimate companionship goes, I think, when you leave a friend, but friendship stays. It is an inherent possibility of relationship that, once admitted — well, there it is.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Woman must come of age by herself.... She must find her true center alone.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I believe most people are aware of periods in their lives when they seem to be "in grace" and other periods when they feel "out of grace," even though they may use different words to describe these states. In the first happy condition, one seems to carry all one's tasks before one lightly, as if borne along on a great tide; and in the opposite state one can hardly tie a shoe-string. It is true that a large part of life consists in learning a technique of tying the shoe-string, whether one is in grace or not. But there are techniques of living too; there are even techniques in the search for grace.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I believe that true identity is found... in creative activity springing from within. It is found when one loses oneself.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh