Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of taking action to create change instead of being passive.
Christopher Reeve's quote highlights the dichotomy between passivity and action in the face of life's challenges. It serves as a reminder that one has the power to influence their circumstances through active engagement rather than simply observing life as it passes by. By choosing to 'activate,' individuals are encouraged to pursue change and take control of their situations instead of remaining stagnant.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth.
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
Once you choose hope, anything's possible
Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.
Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.
We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.
Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion - contempt for women - has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.
Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
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