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What is the most important "life lesson" you have learned?

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OldVet
Advanced Wordsmith
Friends can come, Friends can go. The truly good friends will stick by you. While family will always be family. Work hard, Play hard. Be honest you'll sleep better. I may be ugly looking, but I always try to show my good side.
MorePleasin
Common Sense Iconoclast
The most important life lessons:

You cannot control what others think and do, especially what they think about you. Concentrate only on what you can yourself control. Maintain your own integrity, and control how you yourself react to what other people think and do. If you are true to yourself, you need never concern yourself about what others think, nor ever try to control them, nor change their minds. They will either be beside you, or they they are not worth worrying about.

A leader must have followers; otherwise, he is just a boss.

If you can't find the time to do it right the first time, when will you find time to fix it?

The solutions to any problem fit into three categories: "Fix it", "Live with it", or "Leave". Consider all possibilities in each category before picking the best solution.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than open one's mouth and remove all doubt" - Mark Twain (or Lincoln, or Confucius, or...)
lyonking
Advanced Wordsmith
U cannot fight ur destiny
Writingguy
Active Ink Slinger
live in the moment

do not regret the past and do not be too worried about the future, just enjoy the moment
Dani
Big-haired Bitch/Personality Hire
Spitters are quitters.

"What is the quality of your intent?" - Thurgood Marshall
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Clumeleon
Quote by Dani
Spitters are quitters.


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ChuckEPoo
Chuckanator
I learned the most important three words in a relationship are not "I love you." They are "I am sorry."
Guest
Lurker
Life is bigger than me.
raph34108
Active Ink Slinger
Keeping an open mind that enables you to always learn from others as well as different circumstances/incidents that we experience in life.
Guest
Lurker
There are so many life lessons, and all are important in various way to all people.

I find that after having children some of what I considered to be the most important life lessons have changed, and maybe will continue to change as they grow, and I grow with them.

One thing I have always believed, and have always taught and continue to teach my children is to always be kind to others.

Always be kind, considerate to everyone you know and meet. This is often easier said then done, especially for kids.

However, I believe that we need to be kind, compassionate, caring, empathetic to everyone. We dont know what sort of day someone is having, what sort of back ground or hisory they have. Sometimes a kind word from a stranger, a smile from a friend or class mate is enough to change the course of some ones day.

When we are kind to all we never have to worry about hurting someone. I myself do not have a mean bone in my body. This is usually a very good trait, but has come back on me in the past. What I have learned though is that there is and always will be mean, uncaring and unkind people regardless of how I treat them. So being kind to the mean ones will always make me the better person, and I will always feel better for doing so.

Imagine what a better world this would be if all of us treated eachother with kindness!

Also learned is kharma is real!! And she can be a real bitch!! Being kind generally means you dont need to worry so much about her!
ChuckEPoo
Chuckanator
I could say silly things like never pee upwind but in a serious note I would say it is the golden rule. Treat others as I would like to be treated. To love as I would desire to be loved. To not expect others to change what I can't. To not do things out of pride or vanity but esteem others better than my self. If you can do but a fraction of those things you will be rich in the wealth of friends.
Guest
Lurker
You can wake up any given day and change your life. You can be a new person if you want to.
Scifihealer
Active Ink Slinger
Be happy about every given day which you awake and get that you are healthy and normal, life is so short and every day we should make the best out of it.
Guest
Lurker
"Stop and smell the roses" in life, because it goes by so very quickly, and you never know when it will end (comes from experience being widowed way too young...)
Porgy87
Senior Analyst
Number one: Be kind. You don't know what another person's life is like.

Also: Don't sweat the small stuff; it's all small stuff.

Also: Savor good things. Shun bad things.

Also: Don't fry bacon naked.
infinite210
Active Ink Slinger
1. Don't try and fit in try to stand out.

2. The only person who can stop you success is yourself

3. Don't let your surrounding affect your personality
AudriNichols
Active Ink Slinger
Your self talk is what will make or break you. All that matters is what you think of yourself. It really doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of you.
littlemiss
Active Ink Slinger
To not be in a position where you're too dependant on something or someone
Beffer
Rainbow Warrior
Never allow your perceptions of a situation to be confined to its immediate components. Always step back, and look at things from a wider perspective. Things always look different when taken in a broader context. And when thoroughly flummoxed, just consider... what difference will any of this make in 300 years?
Guest
Lurker
1) Take full responsibility for yourself... you are the only person who really knows what is best for you.
2) Never rely on others to solve your problems or blame anyone but yourself for them.
3) Take good advice and genuine, well-meant criticism to heart.
4) Don't trust the experts or professionals unquestioningly: they always have other agendas.
5) Fight the battles you CAN win and walk away from those you can't.
6) remember the glass is always half full...people who do that are happier and live longer.
Guest
Lurker
That no matter how shit you think things are if you stop, take a deep breath then you can find a way out although some time the only way can be difficult
Guest
Lurker
if you have to toot your own horn, then the song is not worth playing
niceguymatt
Active Ink Slinger
Say what is on your mind, don't beat around the bush!
Lilly
Love Bug
To stand up for what I believe in and fight for what I want. Relentlessly.
billy
Active Ink Slinger
To grab it with both hands and shake those apples down
“It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.”
Guest
Lurker
Respect of my mother and not say anything in public that I wouldn't say to her.
elizabethblack
Awesome Lady
Listen with the intent to understand; not with the intent to reply. When people talk, listen completely.