If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.
Interpretation
Forsythia symbolizes untainted joy, devoid of sadness or complexity.
In this quote, Anne Morrow Lindbergh expresses the idea that forsythia, a flowering plant, embodies a state of pure joy. This joy is described as untainted by sadness, knowledge, or any negative emotions, suggesting that certain experiences or aspects of nature can provide simple, unadulterated happiness.
In practice
In a speech about finding happiness in simple things, one could mention this quote about forsythia.
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.
Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Smile, it enhances your face value.
I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I would have the same career - my ego might not have been satisfied in some areas - but I think I would have been a happier man.
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
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