Find 36 lessons for living, being, creating, below. [* Under construction *]
You have a responsibility to pursue that which makes you feel as though your life is uniquely worth living.
Resolve to be a high value person and you will have high value experiences. Everything else is a multiple of that.
There may be no better reminder of the boundlessness that is the opportunity to achieve whatever one sets one's mind on than Marcus Aurelius's epithet in Book XII of Meditations: “For it is in the nature of all things to change, and transform, and perish, so that others may arise in their turn." There is, or will be, a space carved out for anyone who seeks it.
There is no downside to live in a life that impresses you. There is no downside to living a life that impresses you.
If you’ve chosen to live (or perhaps better put, to continue living), you choose the terms for living, too.
Keep paying attention to the things that help you feel like you.
Any fulfilled life is not without its "good" taxes: cleaning before a friend's visit, encountering traffic on the way to that brunch you've been looking forward to, the not-always-preferred environmental aspects of the city in which you choose to dwell. You have to pay the good taxes, too--that is, embrace the inconveniences that accompany your overarching gifts.
Channel your disdain, your disillusionment, your frustration into that for which you care.
Support and engage the things and industries you claim to care about.
Be unrelenting in the face of whatever it is that you really want. For, why else are we here?