Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.
A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?
Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.
Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.