We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.
Interpretation
Making choices is essential to life, and it's okay to change your mind.
This quote emphasizes the importance of decision-making in our lives while acknowledging that fear of making mistakes should not hold us back. Amy Poehler highlights that feelings and circumstances can change, allowing us the freedom to reassess our choices and embrace the excitement of the unknown in each new day.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing change and taking risks.
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.
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You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.
It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.
The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life.
If you don't want to live a life where you go to a job every day just so you can enjoy your weekends and get two weeks of vacation every year, then don't do it.
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