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 can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t 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.
You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era - it should never leave you.
After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.
She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.
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