If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The loneliness experienced near the sea can be invigorating and personal rather than depressing.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh's quote reflects on the unique quality of loneliness that one may experience by the sea. Unlike typical loneliness that brings feelings of despair, this kind of solitude is invigorating and stimulating, offering a deep personal connection to the environment and oneself.
Themes
LonelinessSeaSolitudePersonalAliveStimulating
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about finding inspiration in nature, one might quote Lindbergh to highlight the positive aspects of solitude.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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