If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Interpretation
Embracing the present enhances our experience of life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being fully present in our experiences. By surrendering to each moment and allowing ourselves to truly engage with it, we can deepen our connection to life and enjoy a richer, more fulfilling existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about mindfulness, this quote can encourage people to embrace the present.
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.
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a psychotic sense of humanity that permeates nearly everything. It can help you understand, and it can discourage you, because you see how little can be done.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.
Slow but steady wins the race.
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