1. Communication & honesty are vital to any healthy relationship.
2. Self-care, when necessary, is more important than caring for others, because you can’t provide any real, lasting help if you haven’t first sorted yourself out.
3. Happiness & optimism are a choice, & a choice worth making, in all situations.
4. People who are taking brave risks deserve all the love & support we can muster for them.
5. Don’t judge people by who they are; judge them by what they do.
6. Life is for living, NOW. There’s no sense in fretting over the past or the future. Be here now. Revel in the present.
7. Love is a million times more worthwhile than hate because it feels better & it makes others feel better. Life’s too short for hatred, in any form.
8. Anything which consistently causes you problems is not worth keeping in your life (including people, jobs, & thought patterns).
9. Everyday life is worth dressing up for.
10. Creativity is a divine gift & should be treated as such.
11. Everyone is different & follows a different path. Conformity is boring & impractical.
12. When you love & respect yourself, everything else becomes much easier & more joyful.
13. You can choose how to react to everything that ever happens to you, & the best choice is always to react with love.
14. Tolerating bullshit just opens the floodgates to let more bullshit in. So don’t.