Helping to Reconcile

From The Wire (Season I)

Everything just dissipiates in the end sometimes.
Best intentions do not lead anywhere.
Everyone plays cards.
No one ever has the best cards
Everyone has widely varying ambitions
If every single person didn't bother about their career/ ambition, things would be right because some one would do the right thing
Not anyone is in a perfect place for too long or anytime actually
Look at that detective who ended up in the pawn shop office for ten years
Its hopeless and not all that hopeless, he got to work on a real important case in the eleventh year
Sometime you have to rise up and stand for what you want to be.
Life is not fair or perfect
Much of life involves figuring out, making peace, forgiving yourself, moving on, standing still, standing tall, trying to stand for something
Getting clean is easy, living is difficult
Living is a lifelong challenge with no known well-defined goals, no well-defined period, no clear-cut failures or successes.