If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
Interpretation
Marriage requires both unity and independence.
This quote reflects the delicate balance in marriage between the mutual dependency that partners develop and the individual strength that each person must maintain. It emphasizes the challenge of nurturing a loving partnership while also promoting personal autonomy and self-reliance.
In practice
During a marriage seminar, this quote can be used to illustrate the importance of both unity and individuality in relationships.
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.
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.
I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.
Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.
Men have always been gentlemen to me - responsible people with healthy attitudes.
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