I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
Interpretation
Life's choices do not always lead to happiness or fulfillment.
This quote by Johnny Carson underscores the idea that living a health-conscious lifestyle does not guarantee a happy or meaningful life. It suggests that there is more to well-being than just physical health and that mental and emotional fulfillment are equally important.
In practice
During a health seminar, to illustrate the importance of mental well-being alongside physical health.
I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you.
I am one of the lucky people in the world; I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
People thought I was funny, so I kind of took entertaining for granted... it was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.
Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
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