Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.
Interpretation
Life should be experienced naturally rather than controlled excessively.
This quote by Ray Bradbury emphasizes the importance of balance in life. It suggests that while we should strive to achieve our goals and move forward when necessary, we also need to embrace moments of relaxation and allow life to unfold organically, rather than attempting to manage every aspect rigidly.
In practice
In a speech about enjoying life, one could quote Bradbury to encourage a more relaxed perspective.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive
Life sometimes gives you a second chance.
Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.
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