The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt offers something quieter than mere carpe diem here—she's insisting that experience itself is the point, not achievement or legacy or even happiness. Notice she says "reach out *without fear*," which suggests the real obstacle isn't time or opportunity, but our own caution. When a widow takes a solo trip at seventy, or someone leaves a secure job to learn an instrument badly, they're answering this call: they're saying the texture of living matters more than the appearance of progress. Her phrasing—"taste," "reach out eagerly"—treats life like something to be actively sensed rather than passively endured.
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Steve Jobs