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.
At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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