I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Interpretation
The quote reflects a desire to break free from unhealthy passions and habits.
Omar Sharif expresses a personal journey of overcoming his attachment to gambling and card playing, which he considered a form of enslavement to his passions. He highlights the struggle and time it took to free himself from these habits, illustrating the challenges associated with making significant life changes and regaining control over one's desires.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming addictions and unhealthy habits.
Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well-worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed.
Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.
If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
If you change the environment, you change the people.
The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.
The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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