If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Love requires nurturing and sharing; it cannot be self-sustaining.
This quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh emphasizes that love is not something that can grow and thrive in isolation. Just like a farmer must repeatedly plant seeds to reap a harvest, love must be given and received continuously to flourish. It highlights the necessity of mutual care in relationships, suggesting that acts of love, affection, and kindness need to be actively cultivated within the heart and towards others to sustain genuine connections.
Themes
LoveRelationshipsNurturingCareConnection
In practice
Example use cases
Using this quote during a wedding speech to emphasize the importance of ongoing love.
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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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