I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
Interpretation
Embracing life with a positive attitude while acknowledging personal growth.
In this quote, Eve Ensler expresses a profound appreciation for life, rating her existence as a 'big beautiful 10', which highlights her happiness and gratitude. At the same time, she recognizes that personal satisfaction is an ongoing journey, suggesting that self-improvement and self-acceptance are key components of a fulfilling life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing life challenges.
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.
Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.
It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."
Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.
That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself." "I am," said Pooh.
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.
Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.