Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.
Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.