#advice

"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."

"Live your epitaph"

"Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones."

"I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that."

"When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided."

"Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential."

"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."

"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."

"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."

"And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours."

"Do not allow your thoughts to condemn you."

"The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen."

"I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you."

"I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored."

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

"You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel."

"We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential."

"A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease."

"In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?"

"Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice."