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Stepping in shit is inevitable, so let’s either see it as good luck, or figure out how to do it less often.
Catching greenlights is about skill: intent, context, consideration, endurance, anticipation, resilience, speed, and discipline. We can catch more greenlights by simply identifying where the red lights are in our life, and then change course to hit fewer of them.
The problems we face today eventually turn into blessings in the rearview
mirror of life. In time, yesterday’s red light leads us to a greenlight. All destruction eventually leads to construction, all death eventually leads to birth, all pain eventually leads to pleasure. In this life or the next, what goes down will come up.
It’s a matter of how we see the challenge in front of us and how we engage with it. Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s...
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If all that I would want to do, would be to sit and talk to you… would you listen? —Matthew McConaughey, age twelve
“Don’t walk into a place like you wanna buy it, walk in like you own it.”
Knowin the truth, seein the truth, and tellin the truth, are all different experiences.
“I’d rather lose money havin fun than make money being bored,” he’d say.
We cannot fully appreciate the light without the shadows. We have to be thrown off balance to find our footing. It’s better to jump than fall. And here I am.
We have the choice to love, befriend, recruit, call to arms, associate, and support who we believe in, and more importantly, who, we believe, believes in us.
I think that’s what we all want. To believe in and be believed in. We all must earn belief in ourselves first, then for each other.
alright, alright, alright Those three words, those three affirmations of what I, Wooderson, did have, were the first three words I ever said on film. A
God, when I cross the truth, give me the awareness to receive it the consciousness to recognize it the presence to personalize it the patience to preserve it and the courage to live it
“It is not about right or wrong. It is ‘Do you understand?!’”
“You’d better be different, not sorry.”
They are not trying to win arguments of right or wrong. They are trying to understand each other. That’s different. (Hey, America, we could learn from this.)
“It is not about win or lose, it is about do you accept the challenge,”
You ever get in a rut? Stuck on the merry-go-round of a bad habit? I have. We are going to make mistakes—own them, make amends, and move on. Guilt and regret kill many a man before their time. Get off the ride. You are the author of the book of your life. Turn the page.
the arrow doesn’t seek the target, the target draws the arrow
We must be aware of what we attract in life because it is no accident or coincidence. The spider waits in his web for dinner to come. Yes, we must chase what we want, seek it out, cast our lines in the water, but sometimes we don’t need to make things happen. Our souls are infinitely magnetic.
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“You always look like you’re havin fun when I see your work, Matthew, and that’s what life’s all about, keep havin fun.”
“The greatest achievement in life is your kids, Matthew, so have a
bunch, and remember, grandkids are twice as nice and half the work.”
Being surrounded by senior citizens will remind you of your mortality and make you feel younger at the same time. You see their bodies not doing what their minds tell them to do and their minds forgetting what they know to r...
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“Staying active and social, Matthew, that’s the key to longevity.”
Death, family crisis, and newborns—the end of a life, trying to keep a life, and welcoming in a new one—these are three things that will shake your floor, give you clarity, remind you of your mortality, and hence, give you courage to live harder, stronger, and truer.
“If everything we did was right, we’d never know what was wrong.”
The hundred-watt honeymoon bulb is superhuman. By design. It’s the beginning, the first time, the birth. That’s why it’s called a honeymoon, not a marriage. It’s not obtainable, or sustainable. Until you have a daughter. On January 3, 2010, Vida Alves McConaughey was born. The only honeymoon that lasts forever.
So rather than struggle against time and waste it, let’s dance with time and redeem it, because we don’t live longer when we try not to die, we live longer when we’re too busy livin.
