What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.
Interpretation
Recognize and accept your circumstances, and make the best of them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of acknowledging that there are factors in life that are beyond our control. It suggests that instead of lamenting over these uncontrollable elements, we should focus on using our resources wisely and making the best decisions possible with what we have, much like playing a hand of cards as effectively as we can.
In practice
This quote can be used as a reminder during a motivational speech about resilience.
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.
The best thing for your psyche as you try to accomplish anything, really, is to just concentrate on all the little things. And not just as a means to an end, but truly enjoy them.
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!
When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story
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