My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of authentic experiences and staying true to oneself.
Sandra Bullock's quote reflects her desire to live a life filled with meaningful memories and genuine choices. By prioritizing love for her activities and honesty in her commitments, she aims to cultivate a fulfilling and intentional existence, steering clear of unnecessary obligations or superficial experiences.
In practice
In a motivational speech about living authentically.
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'
I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.
There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.
I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.
You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.
They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.
(on grief) And you do come out of it, thatβs true. After a year, after five. But you donβt come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.
There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.
A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?
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