If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of patience and openness to receive life's gifts.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh's quote suggests that the sea, a metaphor for life, does not favor those who rush or seek too eagerly; it rewards those who remain patient and receptive. By comparing oneself to a beach, empty and open, it highlights the value of being in a state of calm readiness to receive the unexpected blessings that come our way.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of patience in achieving success.
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.
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
Little hinges swing big doors.
I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
If you don’t learn constantly, you don’t grow and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
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