If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
One must lose one's life to find it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Finding one's true self often requires significant personal sacrifice or change.
This quote suggests that in order to truly discover and understand one's purpose or identity, one may need to let go of their current life circumstances, beliefs, or attachments. It implies that the journey to self-discovery is often profound and requires a readiness to embrace change, even if it means facing challenges or temporary loss.
Themes
Self-DiscoverySacrificeIdentityTransformationChange
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about personal growth, one might say, 'As Anne Morrow Lindbergh wisely noted, one must lose one's life to find it.'
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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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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.
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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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