The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demandin…

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. ✨ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). Gift from the Sea, p.106, Random House
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