Melanie Biehle

“To ask how little, not how much, can I get along with. To say—is it necessary?—when I am tempted to add one more accumulation to my life, when I am pulled toward one more centrifugal activity.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea: 70th Anniversary Edition

“Through color, I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man’s inhumanity to man.”
― Alma Woodsey Thomas, Alma W. Thomas: A Retrospective of the Paintings

“The world today does not understand, in either man or woman, the need to be alone. How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement, or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical, or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it--like a secret vice!”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“Now, instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place. We must re-learn to be alone.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea: 70th Anniversary Edition