Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being.

What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.