Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.
Passion drives perfection.
Living for God's glory is the greatest achievement we can accomplish with our lives.
Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when your out of options, when the pain is great - and you turn to God alone.
As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.
We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.