We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch tv too much. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the modern tendencies of excessive behaviors that detract from meaningful living.
Bob Moorehead's quote presents a poignant critique of contemporary society, highlighting how people often engage in excessive indulgences and distractions that diminish the quality of their lives. It emphasizes the paradoxical situation in which we accumulate material possessions while losing sight of our core values, leading to a life that is filled with years but lacks genuine fulfillment. The message serves as a reminder to prioritize meaningful experiences and relationships over superficial pursuits.
In practice
This quote can be used as a reminder during a self-improvement seminar.
To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
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