“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
As quoted in Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior (1991) by Dan Millman, p. 78
Life’s not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.
As quoted in "They Came to Write in Hawai‘i" by Joseph Theroux, in Spirit of Aloha (March/April 2007)
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American author, journalist, and social activist 1876–1916Related quotes
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist
Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things https://archive.org/details/joshbillingsoni00billgoog (1868), Chapter XXIV: "Perkussion Caps", p. 89; republished in The Complete Works of Josh Billings http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36556 (1876), Chapter 141: "Ods and Ens", p. 248. Often paraphrased as "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part I - Lord, What is Man?
“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Lay hold on Christ with both your poor, empty hands.”
Elizabeth Prentiss (1818–1878) American musician, hymnwriter
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 589.
Jon Anderson (1944) English singer
Lyrics of " Loved by the Sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40eZABP5eJs", written for the "Unicorn Theme" by Tangerine Dream, on the soundtrack of the film Legend (1986).
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
