Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable.
Sometimes dead is better
You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.
Pray for rain while digging a well.
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.