What does it mean to retreat to safety, live a zero life and live a bright life?

These three sentences are all negative:

Take a step back and keep the status quo, and you will have a stable life.

Life is zero: this is probably a fortune teller's quotation, which means that a person is doomed to be lonely all his life.

Self-portrait: It's the time for a person to live a lifetime.

Note: I think these three sentences are very negative. Some people say that they are only fortune tellers. What you see and hear in many martial arts novels can be translated freely. I suggest: life is ups and downs, ups and downs like mountain torrents, sometimes calm and sometimes ups and downs; Sometimes it needs to pass through fine holes in the sand, and sometimes it needs to detour over boulders; Sometimes it flies down and sometimes it stops. ...