Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Never complain and never explain.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
After a storm comes a calm.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.