Know or listen to those who know.
Who seeks shall find.
Never complain and never explain.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.