You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
Interpretation
You must make the best of the circumstances you face and find value in the experience.
This quote emphasizes the importance of accepting and making the most out of the situations life presents us with. Christopher Reeve asserts that despite the challenges we may encounter, such as difficulties or setbacks, there is intrinsic value in engaging with life and embracing our circumstances productively.
In practice
During a motivational speech about resilience.
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.
Once you choose hope, anything's possible
Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.
Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... β₯
I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
And through our travels we get separated, never forget:_x000D_ _x000D_ In order to survive, got to learn to live with regrets.
Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
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