# Quote — Jack Mcdevitt, Chindi

> Embrace your life, find what it is that you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived.

- Author: [Jack Mcdevitt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt.md)
- Book: [Chindi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/chindi.md)
- Page: 487
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_McDevitt#Chindi_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/chindi/embrace-your-life

## More from this book

> “Organized mayhem,” Nick commented, “seems to be the chief preoccupation of intelligent species everywhere.”

p. 432 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/chindi/organized-mayhem-nick.md)

> “One should always be skeptical. That’s always been our problem. We have too many believers.”
>
> “Believers in what?”
>
> “In everything.”

p. 72 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/chindi/one-should-always.md)

> What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one’s life.

p. 165 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/chindi/what-would-happen.md)