The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
Interpretation
Life gains meaning through our connections and obligations to one another.
This quote emphasizes the importance of community and interpersonal relationships in giving life its true beauty. Ralph Waite suggests that when individuals commit to enhancing the lives of others, it contributes to a fuller, richer existence; without such connections and responsibilities, life lacks depth and purpose.
In practice
In a speech about community service, this quote could illustrate the importance of helping others.
I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.
Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird.
Service is what life is all about.
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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