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Editorial: 45 life lessons you'll never learn in school

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244 days ago

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12.. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind..
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ''In five years, will this matter?".
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.


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I like to live by #36. Growing old is unavoidable, but, how we live is in our own hands. Nice list, really enjoyed it.


218 days ago

 


 

Great, simply.... Great!


231 days ago

 


 

funny... you live by these rules??


232 days ago in reply to fishtoaster: "2) A thousand small, easy steps are how ..." »more»

 


 

awww thats good!


232 days ago in reply to helen: "I was just asking my hubs that last week..." »more»

 


 

2) A thousand small, easy steps are how people have been lead to great evil. When in doubt, stop and think- make sure you're not being lead incrementally down the wrong path.

4) Your friends and parents aren't surgeons. Keep a job with good health insurence.

5) Don't pay off your cards every month so you build up a credit history and don't get screwed when you go to get a mortgage.

8) God is either perfect or non-existent. Only an idiot would get mad at him either way.

12) Children need the sense that their parents are invincible, omnipresent protectors. Let them keep that illusion as long as possible.

16) Oxygen toxicity syndrome is lethal.

18) Whatever doesn't kill you stands a good chance of crippling you.

20) Rape is a felony.

23) When everyone else is wearing purple too, you're not eccentric.

29) Unless you live in a multi-person society, you /will/ have to deal with the repercussions of others' opinions of you.

32) Nothing like showing up to a funeral in a clown suit.

45) Life is a gift given against your will, with no receipt, and stapled to your forehead.


232 days ago

 


 

inspiring

seriously. this made my day.


237 days ago

 


 

inspiring

Great thoughts and pix. #22 "over prepare, then go with the flow" should be #1 on any traveler's list. Travel never goes completely expected. The joy is in the discovery of the unexpected, and being open to new experiences. I love the little kid with the costume and mask, is he for sale or rent? The trouble with raising cats is that they really have no aspirations for higher learning. . . .


242 days ago

 


 

good tip


243 days ago

 


 

I was just asking my hubs that last week, "Will it matter in 5 years?" Made him stop & think


243 days ago in reply to BuzeeBee: "After reading 26. i take things lightly ..." »more»

 


 

After reading 26. i take things lightly now


244 days ago in reply to helen: "We really do need to live by these rules..." »more»

 


 

inspiring

We really do need to live by these rules!


244 days ago

 


 

good tip

46. Just Do It!


244 days ago

 


 

good tip


244 days ago