If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire for clarity, focus, and purpose in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh's quote highlights the importance of having a clear vision and a pure intention in one's life. By striving for a 'singleness of eye' and a central core of values, individuals can effectively navigate their responsibilities and activities, ensuring that their actions are in alignment with their true purpose.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech about finding one's true purpose.
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'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion-I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.
I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
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