If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Middle age can be a time for personal growth by letting go of superficial ambitions and material possessions.
In this quote, Anne Morrow Lindbergh reflects on the transformative potential of middle age, suggesting that it is an opportunity to shed the burdens of ambition, materialism, and a self-centered ego. This phase of life can encourage individuals to prioritize deeper values and meaningful connections, leading to a more fulfilling existence as they move towards wisdom and authenticity.
Themes
Middle AgeTransformationLetting GoEgoValues
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about embracing change, one might quote Lindbergh to inspire an audience to release their burdens.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
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