We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
Mandy PatinkinRead
I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
Interpretation
Cherish every moment and make the most of today.
Mandy Patinkin's quote emphasizes the fleeting nature of time and the importance of living fully in the present. It encourages us to embrace each day with enthusiasm and to appreciate the beauty around us, as life is transient and can pass us by before we realize it.
In practice
During a motivational speech about living in the moment.
We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?'
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
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