rules (and reminders) for life 6-17

Life isn't supposed to be comfortable.

Just accept yourself as you are and live as you are supposed to. That is freedom.

Don't ever say no to a reasonable invitation to do something that might be fun. This is a WASP rule, and one of the reasons why rich white people rule the planet.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Be unwavering and uncompromising. Be willing to make huge mistakes, but make them because they're on your back.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

The point of life is to be fully aware of it.

I am not young enough to know everything.

All meetings are once in a life time. That you have met them and are traveling with them, that is fate. No matter what happens hereafter.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Life is what happens to you while your busy making other plans.

If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

For there is nothing hid which shall not be manifest; neither was anything kept secret but that it should come abroad.

The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.

I can argue any stupid position if I redefine all the terms that are relevant to the discussion to mean completely different things than they actually mean.

All talent defines is where you start, not where you end.

I stand in the way of the things I can be.