Life Lessons

• No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
• Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
• Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
• When you say I love you, mean it.
• When you say I am sorry, look the person in the eye.
• You’d worry less about what people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
• When in doubt, just take the next small step.
• Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
• When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
• Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
• Learn the rules, and then break some.
• Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of good luck.
• Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
• Pay off your credit cards every month.
• You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
• Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
• Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
• When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
• Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
• It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
• Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
• If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
• Take deep breaths. It calms the mind.
• Life is under no obligation to give you what you expect.
• Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
• Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
• It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
• When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
• Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion
• Over prepare, then go with the flow.
• Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
• The most important sex organ is the brain.
• No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
• Frame every so-called disaster with these words ’In five years, will this matter?’
• We manifest everything in life.
• Forgive everyone everything.
• What other people think of you is none of your business.
• Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
• However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
• Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
• Believe in miracles.
• Your children get only one childhood.
• All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
• Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
• If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
• Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
• Memorize your favorite poem.
• Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want.
• Be engaged at least 6 months before you get married.
• Believe in love at first sight.
• Never laugh at anyone’s dreams.
• Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.
• In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
• Don’t judge people by their relatives.
• Talk slowly, but think quickly.
• When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer. Smile and ask, why do you want to know.
• Call your mom.
• Say bless you when you hear someone sneeze.
• When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
• Remember the three R’s: respect for self, respect for others, and responsibility for all your actions.
• Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
• Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
• Marry someone you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversation skills will be more important than any other.
• Spend some time alone.
• Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
• Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
• Read more books and watch less TV.
• Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll get to enjoy it a second time.
• A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home.
• In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
• Read between the lines.
• Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
• Be gentle with the earth.
• Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
• Mind your own business.
• Don’t trust someone who does not close their eyes when you kiss.
• Once a year, go someplace you have never been before.
• If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth’s greatest satisfaction.
• Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for one another is greater than your need for each other.
• Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
• Remember that your character is your destiny.

* compiled from various sources.