You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.
Interpretation
Live each day in a way that brings you satisfaction and fulfillment.
This quote emphasizes the importance of living each day with intention and purpose. It encourages us to make choices that align with our values and beliefs, ensuring that when we reflect on our lives, we feel content and proud of how we've lived, regardless of what tomorrow might bring.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.
I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
My mother wanted me to join the Indian army, as the army was seen as a decent and respectable career to have. I shocked my mother by telling her that I wanted to be a writer.
I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.
For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.
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