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.
You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.
I would like to understand things better, but I donβt want to understand them perfectly.
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
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