The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.
Interpretation
Life is meaningful when we are passionate and engaged with it; without that, we lack true vitality.
Malcolm Forbes emphasizes the importance of passion and enthusiasm in life. He suggests that merely existing without things that excite or inspire us is akin to being dead, as true living comes from being emotionally and intellectually engaged in our experiences.
In practice
This quote can inspire a speech on finding your passion in life.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.
I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We cannot say we have the only truth.
If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not ‘live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died for you and rose again?’ Should any thing short of absolute perfection satisfy you? Should you not labour to ‘stand perfect and complete in all the will of God?’
Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but the comparative few who are beneficiaries of this iniquitous social arrangement, far from being viewed as criminals meriting punishment, are the exalted rulers of society, and the people they exploit gladly render them homage and obeisance.
Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.
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