Jack Nicholson Quotes

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long time—but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there's lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.

I just take it a day at a time, and that's how I get through each day.

Sometimes you have to let your life fall apart and let it come back together on its own and learn to care for yourself in a different way.

I don't dream. I'm not a person who makes a list of things that need to happen in my life. It just evolves, and you roll with the punches.

I know that some of the ideas that I have are not always going to be seen as a good idea by everybody but, that's just life. We learn at some point that you don't always get your way.

I've always said I live in the present, and I build for the future.

I'll never be too big for anything.

My life was always one year here, I squeezed out what I could from it, enjoyed it the most possible and changed. That was the way of life I had.

I feel like I haven't done the best in environments that aren't conducive to me doing well, and I have to do that. Because times are going to get tough, and I'm going to have to let things slide off my back.

I am always open to learning. I am always open to adapting myself to a new role and a new position.

We stipulate about where we need to be in life: By this age you should be married, by this age you should have kids. But it's not that you can only do this or only do that. It's really about creating a holistic life: about planning ahead and being efficient with your time and really listening to yourself.

Some stuff happened outside of tennis, and it made me realize that you just have to think about yourself, just focus on yourself, and don't worry too much about the other things because they can change very fast from positive to negative.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

Every day is a new day, and ultimately, I have to figure out what works each day.