You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Be kind. It’s worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events – you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the...