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.
Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would be quite different. [But] the same goes for the pluralist...If the pluralist had been born in [Morocco] he probably wouldn't be a pluralist. Does it follow that...his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief-producing process?
I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays itβs no good being a cabbage β unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.
You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine outselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant
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