Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?

Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.