Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Interpretation
Life involves risks with love and achievements, and one should learn from losses while respecting oneself and others.
This quote highlights the importance of embracing great risks in the pursuit of love and achievement, while also emphasizing the need to learn valuable lessons from failures. It underscores the principles of self-respect, respect for others, and taking responsibility for one’s actions, suggesting that sometimes, not achieving what we desire can lead to unexpected opportunities. The quote also advises learning the established rules so that we can effectively navigate or even challenge them when necessary.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing one's dreams and goals.
Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your spouse, not your children. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.
You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.
When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.
When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.
Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied in itself with its own quantity of water. Similarly, when our heart is cleansed with spirituality, we find pleasure and ecstasy with our own selves that is so sweet, so wonderful and so satisfying, that the so-called pleasures of this world no longer have any values, no appeal at all.
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