If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Interpretation
True security and continuity in life come from personal growth and living in the moment.
This quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh emphasizes that the essence of life and love lies in continuous growth and fluidity. It suggests that true security does not come from clinging to past experiences or future expectations, but from embracing the present moment as it is, allowing oneself the freedom to adapt and evolve.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges and embracing change.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
I am sure care's an enemy to life.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.
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