Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
Randy PauschRead
Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.
Interpretation
Patience and faith in others can reveal their positive qualities over time.
This quote emphasizes the importance of looking for the good in people and having the patience to allow their positive traits to emerge. It suggests that while it may take time, if you remain open and accepting, others will eventually show their admirable qualities, surprising you with their capacity for kindness and goodness.
In practice
Using this quote during a motivational talk about personal growth.
Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.
There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.
To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue
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