Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That was when the Earth tilted on its axis, and there was a paradigm shift, and I felt like a different person.
Interpretation
Losing a parent can profoundly change one's perspective and maturity in life.
In this quote, Paul Rudd reflects on the transformative experience of losing a parent and how it marked a significant shift from childhood to adulthood. He describes this loss as a moment that changed his entire perspective and understanding of life, suggesting that such experiences are pivotal in shaping who we become as adults.
In practice
In a speech at a memorial service to honor a loved one.
I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.
There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life.
Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!
Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It's about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That's what I want my life to be all about - full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
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