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.
This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.
They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
I hear from non-Afghan immigrants - Africans, Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs in France - all the time. These people have had to redefine their lives, which is what my family went through when we came to the U.S. in 1980.
(on grief) And you do come out of it, thatβs true. After a year, after five. But you donβt come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.
I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.
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