The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.