If you are going to burn bridges, then be sure that you can swim.

A righteous man from the past was once asked, ‘Would you like a man to inform you of your faults?’ He replied, ‘If he is an adviser then yes. But if he wishes to blame and scold me, then no.’ [Sifat al-Safwah]

People are human. What hurts you, hurts them. So advise and wish them well, don’t harm or make them feel bad.

I’m not a risk taker. But sometimes in my attempt to keep things ‘as they are’, I realise I’m taking the biggest risk.

There’s a Chinese proverb that says, ‘When the student is ready, the master will appear.’ Everything happens according to a timeline which you did not set. So just as your birth is marked out on that timeline, so is everything else which you are to encounter. But some things will only appear once you are ready, capable, and appreciative.