The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (Jun 22 1906-2001), US writer; She wrote Listen! The Wind, 1938 and A Gift From the Sea, 1955, and was the wife of Charles Lindbergh.