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.
There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.
But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.
Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.
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