Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Even in abstraction, mathematics has profound real-world applications.
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Data without insight is just noise.