Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.
Interpretation
Life should be experienced naturally rather than controlled excessively.
This quote by Ray Bradbury emphasizes the importance of balance in life. It suggests that while we should strive to achieve our goals and move forward when necessary, we also need to embrace moments of relaxation and allow life to unfold organically, rather than attempting to manage every aspect rigidly.
In practice
In a speech about enjoying life, one could quote Bradbury to encourage a more relaxed perspective.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
My entire concept of lifestyle is built on the foundation of my homes. There is no more important expression of this concept than that of my own personal living space.
He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.
We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
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