I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
Randy PauschRead
Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
Interpretation
Having fun is essential for a fulfilling life.
Randy Pausch emphasizes the significance of fun in our lives, suggesting that enjoyment and playfulness are vital components of happiness. He encourages us to prioritize these moments, as they enrich our existence and foster connections with others.
In practice
Using this quote to inspire team-building activities in a corporate workshop.
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.
Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.
Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
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