I can accept uncertainty when it comes because uncertainty is inevitable. I can try to resist it by sticking to strict routines and avoiding exploration of new situations, new people, new ideas. But if I resist uncertainty, I will never take chances. If I never take chances, I will never know what I can achieve. [...]

The only person I can control is me. It's not my responsibility to ensure that my partner, children, siblings, co-workers, or neighbors make the right decisions. Trying to control another person's actions is about as effective as staring at a silkworm and thinking that I can make it turn into a butterfly by wishing hard [...]

I do not dwell on my mistakes. I learn from them. Making mistakes reminds me that I am alive. Making mistakes is the first sign of life. It's how we learn and grow. I look at the children around me, at the way they skin their knees nearly every day, it seems, as they try, [...]