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 just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
I like being with people. I like talking to them. I like everything about my life, so it's fun.
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