On not taking your own advice:

“To succeed in life means to count only on oneself, to remove oneself forever from dependency, to learn solitude, to no longer endure the disappointments inflicted by others, to no longer disperse one’s energies, to only give the gift of one’s presence after reflection, to know how to keep quiet, and to listen to what really matters, [and] to look in depth at what really is deserving.”

-Brigitte Bardot, in her memoir Initiales B.B. (photo by Sam Levin, 1967)