My Pillow

1.  You are loved.
2.  If anyone actually is keeping a tally of all your failings, that act says more about them than it does about you.
3. You can't make all of the people happy all of the time; maybe not even some of the people some of the time..
4 There is never an end to learning, or growing, or discovering.
5.You will always find a way out, even when all the doors slam shut and everything feels impossible.
6  Earnestness and optimism can trump irony and cynicism.
7. It's possible to recapture the way you felt when you were young, how the perfect clockwork mechanism of the universe used to leave you breathless and giddy with wonder.
8.There will always be more stories to tell, or at the very least new ways of reinterpreting old fables.
9 Someday even the sun will disappear; remember that everything we see and touch and taste is made of stars that grew and pulsed and died long before this planet ever existed.
10. Assume that you are under some kind of obligation to make the world a better place.
This post originally appeared on The Belle Jar.