Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Never complain and never explain.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.