Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.

I don't think people take enough time to themselves or like to be alone anymore, but it's really important.

In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?

I don't mind it. I just space it out. Every other week I go out. I used to get some time to myself but I've been pretty busy lately. But I've had it the other way, where I'm staring at the phone waiting for it to ring, so this is definitely better.

There is just something that people taught me in general for self-care, would just be to spend some time alone and to protect yourself. Learning to say no is something that helps in that, and what you're comfortable with and what you're not comfortable with, and finding the line. That's it. Otherwise it's just going to be really hard.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.

If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Running is my time for myself. I'm like, 'I'm going for a run!' and my husband knows I'm out of there.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

After being in a studio, working on games stuff, I'm like, 'Oh my God, I wish I could just sit in my room for a week and listen to music and draw by myself.'

I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, when they're sick, like to curl up and remove myself. I don't like a lot of people around. There is nothing you can do to help.

People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.