The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.
Interpretation
Life is meaningful when we are passionate and engaged with it; without that, we lack true vitality.
Malcolm Forbes emphasizes the importance of passion and enthusiasm in life. He suggests that merely existing without things that excite or inspire us is akin to being dead, as true living comes from being emotionally and intellectually engaged in our experiences.
In practice
This quote can inspire a speech on finding your passion in life.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
I couldn't remember when I'd stopped willing to be trans and started wanting to be trans. If there were a difference, I'd forgotten it.
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.
I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
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