Melanie Biehle

“Only when one is connected to one’s own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.”
― 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

“What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next--to be drenched in work as one is drenched in sleep or the sea.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“How wonderful are islands! Islands in space, like this one I have come to, ringed about by miles of water, linked by no bridges, no cables, no telephones. An island from the world and the world's life. Islands in time, like this short vacation of mine. The past and the future are cut off; only the present remains. Existence in the present gives island living an extreme vividness and purity. One lives like a child or a saint in the immediacy of here and now. Every day, every act, is an island, washed by time and space, and has an island's completion. People, too, become like islands in such an atmosphere, self-contained, whole, serene; respecting other people's solitude, not intruding on their shores, standing back in reverence before the miracle of another individual.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea