You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.
Interpretation
Live each day in a way that brings you satisfaction and fulfillment.
This quote emphasizes the importance of living each day with intention and purpose. It encourages us to make choices that align with our values and beliefs, ensuring that when we reflect on our lives, we feel content and proud of how we've lived, regardless of what tomorrow might bring.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.
I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the most curiously depressing circumstances. For months I'd been stuck, unable to take one step in any new direction. The world kept moving on; I alone was at a standstill. In the autumn, everything took on a desolate cast, the colors swiftly fading before my eyes. The sunlight, the smell of the grass, the faintest patter of rain, everything got on my nerves.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
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