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.
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
I'm the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I'm old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried.
If I ask you, 'What do you want out of life?' and you say something like, 'I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,' it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that.
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English. It had to do with death and disease and lots of other things. I was a little prone to depression.
She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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