if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.
Interpretation
Life's essence unfolds when we embrace living fully and authentically.
This quote suggests that life is a series of fleeting moments, and while one might perceive their life in retrospect as they near death, the real value lies in fully engaging with life while it is happening. To truly be alive means to actively participate in the experiences and emotions that life offers, rather than simply watching them pass by.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing life experiences.
Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.
Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.
Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.
Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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