If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
Interpretation
Women require time alone to rediscover their true selves.
This quote emphasizes the importance of solitude for women, suggesting that in the hustle and bustle of life, it is essential for them to take time away from external distractions and the expectations of others to reconnect with their inner self. Solitude provides an opportunity for reflection, allowing individuals to understand their own desires, thoughts, and feelings without influence from the outside world.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth, you might say, 'As Anne Morrow Lindbergh once stated, women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.'
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.
We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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