Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!
If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!
I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself!
Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.
If rising makes you famous, don't give up rising, but find a safe port where you can be unreachable!
If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won't go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!