If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Interpretation
Mothers and housewives often work tirelessly without taking breaks, unlike many other professions.
This quote highlights the often-overlooked efforts of mothers and housewives, who are dedicated to their families and homes without the benefit of scheduled time off. It emphasizes the intensity of their work and the absence of recognition for their continuous contributions, drawing attention to the societal norm that typically overlooks their sacrifices.
In practice
In a speech about the unsung heroes of society, you could use this quote to highlight the contributions of mothers and housewives.
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.
To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, a very warm home. I'm fortunate.
I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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