What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.
Interpretation
Recognize and accept your circumstances, and make the best of them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of acknowledging that there are factors in life that are beyond our control. It suggests that instead of lamenting over these uncontrollable elements, we should focus on using our resources wisely and making the best decisions possible with what we have, much like playing a hand of cards as effectively as we can.
In practice
This quote can be used as a reminder during a motivational speech about resilience.
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.
β¦but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
Often, we do not know where our choices will take us. This is why the best choices are often made based not on what they can bring to us, but what they will allow us to bring to others.
Indeed, follow your star if you want to head north and it's the North Star. But if you want to head north and it's Mars, you had better follow somebody else's star.
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.
Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.
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