This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

If you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can’t wait until you’re sixty-five.

Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

We’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Reminisce about it, but don’t live in it. Learn from it, but don’t punish yourself about it or continually regret it. Don’t get stuck in it.

Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hang on too long.

Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.

I’d always been interested in psychology.

If the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don’t wait until you’re on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.