You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
Interpretation
You must make the best of the circumstances you face and find value in the experience.
This quote emphasizes the importance of accepting and making the most out of the situations life presents us with. Christopher Reeve asserts that despite the challenges we may encounter, such as difficulties or setbacks, there is intrinsic value in engaging with life and embracing our circumstances productively.
In practice
During a motivational speech about resilience.
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.
Once you choose hope, anything's possible
Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.
Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.
There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.
It is not the life that matters, but the journey.
The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
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