Can There Be Better Advice ?

Do not put faith in traditions, even though they have been accepted for long generations and in many countries. Do not believe a  thing because many repeat it. Do not accept a thing on the authority of one or another of the sages of old, nor on the ground that a statement is found in the books. Never believe anything because probability is in its favour. Do not believe in that which you have yourselves imagined, thinking that a god has inspired it. Believe nothing merely on the authority of your teachers or of the priests. After examination, believe that which you have tested for yourselves and found reasonable, which is in conformity with your well-being and that of others.
The Buddha - from the Kalama Sutra tr Alexandra David-Neal

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow : our life is the creation of our mind.

Dhammapada - Translated by J.Mascaro

Cease to do evil, learn to do good, cleanse your own heart

This is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

Dhammapada . verse 183 - Translated J.Austin

And some considerations...

Either god wants to remove the evil from this world , and cannot, or he can , and does not want to; or he neither wants to nor can; or he wants to and can .  If  he neither wants to nor can, this is impotence , which is contrary to the nature of god ; if he can but does not want to, this is wickedness , which is no less contrary to his nature; if he neither can nor wants to this is at once wickedness and impotence; if he wants to and can ( which is the only one of these possibilities fitting for  god )  whence then comes the evil which is on earth?    Lactantus Firmianus - On the Wrath of God - ca 300

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom