This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to figure it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

“The less you respond to rude, critical, argumentative people … the more peaceful your life will become.”

“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”

“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”

“Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves.”

“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”