Know or listen to those who know.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Never complain and never explain.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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.