All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
Wendell Berry
Related You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right. YOUNG JEEZY I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything... JOE NAMATH When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to ... CHRIS MARTIN The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's th... JAY-Z Don't use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don't worry about it if... HENRY CLOUD You don't want to look the same every day of your life. It's boring as hell. JOSEPH ABBOUD You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you... ROSALYNN CARTER If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness. DAVID GEST I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad da... JULIANNE HOUGH I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don'... TOM FORD You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, an... CASEY STENGEL When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be ... JENNIE FINCH If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. J... CYNTHIA NIXON My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to v... KELLY WEARSTLER If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, full... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one. JIM EVANS If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are thin... SHARI ARISON I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti... ELLE FANNING If you believe in what you do, you are immortal. The day that you don't believe it, the day you&... CHARO It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day... AUBREY PEEPLES When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you ... AMY WINEHOUSE If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can'... BERNARD BARUCH Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattract... JOEL OSTEEN I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK. JEREMY CORBYN Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right. MALACHY MCCOURT The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's th... JAY-Z It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha... MARK TWAIN If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show. DOROTHY FIELDS If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, thing... DREW POMERANZ Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you d... BRANDY NORWOOD As a sportsman, you always play to win. Having said that, it's not possible to win every day. Th... SURESH RAINA Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. CARRIE UNDERWOOD Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you. ICE CUBE You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go ... JACK HARBAUGH You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in... STEPHEN AMELL I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't co... SRIKUMAR RAO Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your ... EMMANUELLE BEART If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show... GABRIEL HEATTER The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train tog... ALISTAIR BROWNLEE There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose yo... RAKUL PREET SINGH And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you sho... WALTER ISAACSON You don't wake up one morning and say, 'Today is going to be a comedy day.' And the next... WILL ARNETT Psychologists say don't expect your life to be happy all the time. I go with the philosophy that... SHIRLEY EATON A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to ge... GARY DAVID GOLDBERG If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the ... NATE DIAZ In life, try your best to do the right thing. Have fun while you're alive. Take advantage of eve... JUSTIN CHON You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself. VINCE VAUGHN To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you ... TOM LEHMAN You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't e... DAVE RAMSEY I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll ... JUNIOR SEAU I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think... JIDENNA White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain... BILLY GIBBONS At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ... TYGA We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do y... DAVID HYDE PIERCE Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character'... CHRISTOPHER MELONI Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best d... JOEL OSTEEN One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to... JEFF FITZGERALD Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have con... CAM NEWTON Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don'... PRINCE At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in towa... BUSTA RHYMES When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showin... JACK CANFIELD I think to this day, 'Superman/Wonder Woman' is probably one of the trickiest things I'v... CHARLES SOULE I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. I... SIGOURNEY WEAVER The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me... CHLOE SEVIGNY At the end of the day, you can be physically strong, you can have all the tools out there, but if yo... CARLI LLOYD You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you ... JOYCE MEYER It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistake... MEL GIBSON I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart t... DEBBIE REYNOLDS You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get... JOAQUIN ANDUJAR If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantab... KELLY ROWLAND Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I... DITA VON TEESE The future is never just one choice. It's a thousand. And they never stop. You will choose your futu... CORA CARMACK If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. Yo... NICK FLYNN I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just ... CARMELO ANTHONY You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day. JEFF BEZOS That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, ... LARS VON TRIER I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. Tha... CRYSTAL REED But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's t... DAVID BLAINE If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you. JOEL OSTEEN If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. CAVETT ROBERT Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you'... BARTON GELLMAN There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned not... LORRAINE HANSBERRY If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a shor... GAVIN NEWSOM Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ... SCOTT ADAMS A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don'... SOPHIA AMORUSO If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then th... NEV SCHULMAN You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You'... SCOTT TOLZIEN It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them. CAMPBELL BROWN You're going to struggle. You're going to do well. You can't really let the past or the ... ANDREW BENINTENDI I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy par... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art. ANDY WARHOL If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If ... YEHUDA BERG You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your... JANE SEYMOUR It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't g... DAVID FINCHER To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of t... LEONARD LAUDER The best boxers don't always qualify for the Olympics. You can easily have a bad day, but please... KATIE TAYLOR Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up eve... ERNEST GAINES At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a moth... INDRA NOOYI
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CHUCK BERRY When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way y... HALLE BERRY I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. HALLE BERRY When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far awa... JAN BERRY Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, e... HALLE BERRY Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real... HALLE BERRY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn... MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes... MARY BERRY Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye... MARY BERRY I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O... MARY BERRY If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven. MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan... MARY BERRY You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it... HALLE BERRY I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's li... HALLE BERRY Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the a... HALLE BERRY While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as ... HALLE BERRY If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all... HALLE BERRY Beauty is not just physical. HALLE BERRY I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mou... HALLE BERRY If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to m... HALLE BERRY My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned. HALLE BERRY I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just f... HALLE BERRY I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right. HALLE BERRY I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a... HALLE BERRY I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am.... HALLE BERRY You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love... HALLE BERRY Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a ... HALLE BERRY The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you... HALLE BERRY In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as ... HALLE BERRY I think it's always best to be who you are. HALLE BERRY I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a voi... HALLE BERRY Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No ... HALLE BERRY There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've ha... HALLE BERRY Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at ob... HALLE BERRY