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.
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.
The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest.
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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