You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
Interpretation
Embrace and appreciate the experience of living fully and lovingly.
In this quote, Ray Bradbury emphasizes the importance of valuing life itself. He suggests that our purpose is not just to exist but to actively cherish the experience of being alive, which inherently involves love and appreciation for the world around us.
In practice
In a motivational speech about living fully.
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.
It was my life β like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.
Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
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