Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I donβt believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.
Jim CarreyRead
I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
Interpretation
Choose to embrace the beauty of life by avoiding harmful substances.
In this quote, Jim Carrey emphasizes the importance of recognizing and appreciating the beauty of life. He advocates for a clear mind and a healthy lifestyle, suggesting that substance abuse detracts from the richness of our experiences and the joy that life can bring.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a wellness retreat to inspire attendees to embrace a healthier lifestyle.
Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I donβt believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.
50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?
Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.
It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'
When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.
Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it's as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
It was my life β like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.
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