Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I donβt believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.
Jim CarreyRead
Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.
Interpretation
Embrace your natural process and trust that you will flourish in your own time.
This quote by Jim Carrey highlights the importance of not overthinking or stressing about the future. Just like flowers bloom naturally without worry, individuals should focus on their present and the positive aspects of their lives, allowing their true beauty to emerge when the time is right.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a graduation speech to encourage students to trust their journey.
Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I donβt believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.
50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?
It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'
When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. When I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you donβt want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
It is today that we create the world of the future.
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.
My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.
It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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