Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.
Interpretation
Embrace life fully, expressing joy and gratitude, while being mindful of the passage of time.
This quote encourages us to live our lives to the fullest, celebrating each moment with joy and thankfulness. It suggests that as time passes, we should aim to leave a positive impact, akin to a wake left in a river, reflecting the meaningful experiences we create along the way.
In practice
During a toast at a celebration, to remind everyone to appreciate the moment.
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don’t imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants.
The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not pretend there is no danger . Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when they’ve grown, they will pollute the shadows.
I grew up playing in the streets. We played two-hand touch from street pole to street pole. That's how I learned the game.
Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.
Life is an Attitude. It's what you Choose to Believe, ALWAYS.
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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