When you smile at the deaths of others, Death smiles back at you.

You are enough. It is perfectly acceptable to be yourself just the way you are.

You'll receive more assistance if you ask for it and are sometimes rejected than you will if you never ask at all.

When you come up with a clever retort to a terrible person too late, tell it to a friend. This will help you save it in your mind should another situation to use it arise. Over time you'll accumulate a mighty store of scathing takedowns against those who require it.

You are allowed to say, "No," to things.

Unchecked cruelty can spread like wildfire, but the good news is so can unfettered kindness.

If you had to be independent as a child due to any unpleasant circumstances, you are correct to be proud of what you accomplished all on your own while simultaneously understanding you should not have been left all on your own.

It is your duty to be a good, kind, compassionate person within your community and the wider world. It is not your duty to single-handedly fix every problem nor every problematic person. Be part of wonderful things but do not weigh yourself down with burdens that are not yours.

I am always immensely proud of you when you put your social justice values above your own convenience. Well done. Keep it up. The world needs you.

Be the kind of person you'd want to be friends with.

Be wary of those who insist on "debate" or "discussion" when someone's civil rights are on the table. There's no debate to be had; trans women are women, trans men are men, anyone with a uterus gets to decide what grows in it or not, and the state has no place in the bedrooms...

Striving for greatness and accepting yourself as you are in any given moment are not mutually exclusive endeavours.