If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you

Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.