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important lessons in life
Would you share with me your words of wisdom? I'm 20 and I just want to hear from anyone the important lessons in life they have learned so far.
It could be about work, love life, spirituality, money matters, passions, dealing with problems, beauty routine/secrets, etc. thanks!
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Heres some ive figured out!
Mm...Ill put it in a poem :)
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
And say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
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"Nothing that happens is ever forgotten, even if you can't remember it."
-Miyazaki's 'Chihiro's Adventure'
On Memory: "The past should not be followed after,
and the future not desired.
What is past is dead and gone,
And the future is yet to come.
But whoever gains insight into things
Presently arisen in the here and now,
Knowing them, unmoved, unshaken--
let him cultivate that insight."
On Humanity: "These two types of people are difficult to find in the world. What two? One who will do a favor fast, and one who is grateful for a favor done."
On Anger: "This anger which you embrace eats away at the very roots of all the virtues you strive to develop. Who would be such a fool?
Someone else does evil deeds and you get angry. Why? Do you wish to copy him and act as he does?
If you get angry then maybe he will suffer, maybe not. But by feeling anger yourself you certainly do suffer.
If a foe provokes you to hurt yourself by getting angry, let that anger subside. Do not harm yourself unnecessarily."
On the mind: "Whatever one thinks about and ponders over often, one's mind gets a leaning in that way."
--all from the words of the Buddha
and, of course,
"I've decided gelatin is, like, puberty for solids."
-my friend Crystal
Try [Link](Mouse over link to see full location) for more wonderful, short, concise quotes from the buddha and various great practitioners of buddhism. Even if you are not Buddhist, you will find a great well of peace and guidance in the words--I certainly did.
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"Everyone makes mistakes..thats why pencils have erasers!"
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"You never know what you have until you lose it"
That is totally true. Doesnt matter if your talking about breaking up with someone or losing a best friend. Or someone in the hospital or someone dying. Its always true.-trix
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Here are some "words of wisdom":
"Follow your heart, because if you always trust your mind, you'll always act on logic, and logic doesn't always lead to happiness."
"Look for someone who is a best friend more than someone you're in love with, because when you're old, graying, wrinkled and all, it's the friendship that endures more than the passion and being loved."
"When you find someone you really love, never let them go, not for anything because when they are you gone, you realize how much they really meant to you and by then, it just might be too late to get them back."
There so many other "words of wisdom" but you can go to this website and they have tons of categories for "words of wisdom": [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
Hope I helped :)
-Karen
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dont go to bed being angry at someone... i did and then they died and ill always have the guilt
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...ADVICE! cant you read?
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If you cant stay together with your boyfriend without doing stuff -get out.
*Thank The People Who Treat You The Way That You DONT Want To Be Treated
They Are The Ones Who Make You Strong!
**If You Can't Love Me At My Worst, You Don't Deserve Me At My Best.**
*When you feel like giving up on someone, remember why you held on for so long*
*Never long for anyone from your
past, there is a reason they never made it to your future.*
****Never give up on someone you can't go a day without thinking about
*There comes a time when you realize who really matters, who never did, who always will, and in the end we learn whoes fake, whoes true, and who would risk it for you
*The people who you think would never hurt you are the ones who end up hurting you the worst
*The key to life is to smile and laugh when all you wanna do is break down and cry
*make sure that you know yourself before you get to know someone else.
*Never let your dreams die because your will to live will die with them
*Don't worry about tomarrow-Jessica Simpson
*some days are made for rain
--Aaron Neville
*There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
--Mother Teresa
*True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending.
--K Knight
*Love fails, only when we fail to love.
--J. Franklin
Okay- And the rest I made up-
**** I try to be nice to everyone, I don’t really hate anyone, because its always better if your just nice, or at least try to be nice to everyone. Even if people are mean, you have to stay true to yourself, and your friends. ***
*Smile, let loose, live life, dance, sing, experience life. Dont ever regret not taking a chance. Follow your dreams, and follow your heart. You can never go back. In life there are no second chances. Take chances. Whatever the out come in the end, its ALWAYS worth it*
*People may despise you, or look down on you, talk about you, and lie to you. But you have to realize who really matters in life. It's not the people who are two-faced, but those who were by your side when the two-faced were tearing you apart inside.*
and these arnt by me
*Everytime you hurt someone else with
your actions or words, your hurting Jesus.*
*I'd wrather be hated for who I am than be loved for who I'm not
*Some days are ment for rain.--Aaron Neville
* If you want to learn to love better, start with someone you hate*
*If you find someone that you know you love, just love that person. God will see you through the rest of the way*
~*The reason God put spaces in between your fingers was so another person's fingers could fill it up. *~
A few Life lessons:
1) don't be conceeded; if you are, only a few people will accept you as a "real preson" to others you are simply "fake."
2) Don't judge others and don't let others judge you. By judging, you are leading your self down the path of low self esteem. It may feel great at the time, however, after a while, it all catches up to you. (trust me on this I have been there)
3) BE YOUR SELF! don't "pretend" to be a certain kind of person, minority, or group. be who you are cuz usually there are more benifits that way!"
Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
~ from the movie Moulin Rouge ~
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
~ by Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) ~
You will never know true happiness
until you have truly loved,
and you will never understand
what pain really is
until you have lost it.
~ by Anonymous ~
To live is like to love -
all reason is against it,
and all healthy instinct for it.
~ by Samuel Butler, Life and love ~
....A simple I love you means more than money....
~ by Frank Sinatra ~
True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist,
Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
~ by Anonymous ~
Seduce my mind and you can have my body,
Find my soul and I'm yours forever.
~ by Anonymous ~
So dear I love him that with him,
All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live no life.
~ by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ~
*Never forget something/someone that/who once made you smile.
Never say I love you, if it isn't really there
Never talk about feelings, if you really don't care
Never hold my hand, if you're gonna break my heart
Never say you are gonna, if you don't plan to start
Never look into my eyes and all you do is lie
Never say hello if you really mean goodbye
If you really mean forever, Then please say you'll try ..
Never say forever.. Because forever makes me cry...
*Should I smile because youre my friend? Or cry because thats all we'll ever be?
Love* Its giving someone the power
to destroy you but trusting them that they wont
Its impossible to find someone who never hurts you so go for the one who is worth all the xPainx
Quotes I got from those Chicken Soup BookS!
1. When you tell the truth, you don't have anything to remember. ---Mark Twain
2. You help yourself realize that all the things you want to be...you already are.---Gretchen, Daweson's Creek
3. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards.---Vernon Saunders Law
4. ...Memory will never die... ---Savannah Marion
5. Conflict builds character. Crisis Defines it. ---Steven V. Thulon
6. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stants at times of challenge and controversy.---Martin Luther King Junior
7. One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go. ---Shelia Murry Bethel
8. Do what you can with what you have, where you are.---Theodore Roosevelt
9. Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyones disbelief.---August Wilson
10. IF we all did the things we were capeable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.---Thomas Edison
11. They say a person needs just 2 things to be truly happy in the workd, someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. ---Tom Bodett
12. Actions, not words, are true criterion of the attatchment of friends.---George Washington
13. Examine the contents, not the bottle. ---The Talmud
14. You will suffer and you will hurt, you will have joy and you will have peacer.---Alison Cheek
15. Never apologize for showing feelings. Remember that when you do, your apologizing for the truth.---Benjamin Disraeli
16. Love Cures people-both the ones who give it and the ones who recieve it. ---Karl Menninger
17. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. --- Martin Luther King Junior
18. For you and me today is all we have ; tomarrow is a mirage that may never be reality. --- Louis L'Amour
19. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never the Same. ---Unknown
20. Everyman stamps his value on himself....Mean is made great or small my his own will. ---J.C.F. Von Schiller
21. Love the moment, and energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundries. ---Coritakent
22. After All, there is only one race - Humanity. --- George Moure
23. Character Building beingsg in our infancry and continues until our death. --- Eleanor Roosevelt
24. To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ---Edward Weeks
25. Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life. ---Ellen Sue Stern
26. I discovered I always have choices, and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. ---Judith M. Knowlton
27. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourslef in any direction your choose. ---Dr. Seuss
28.Do unto other as you would have them do unto you. ---The Golden Rule.
29. Lying is dome with words and also with silence. ---Adrienne Rich
30.The world tha we live in is the one that we create. We create our world with every thought that we think, with every word that we speak and with ever action that we take. ---Levar Burton.
31. The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.---Origen
32. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. -- Moliere
33. Don't ever slam a door, you may want to go back. ---Don Herold
34. The shortest answer is doing. -- English Proverb
35. Time is a dressmakeer specializing in alterations. ---Faith Baldwin
36. When we begin to take our failures nonseriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh ar ourselves. ---Katherine Mansfield
37. Decisions determine destiny.---Frederick Speackman
38. From their errors and mistakes, the wist and goodlearn wisdom for the future. --- Plutarch
39. In this world we must helo one another. ---Jean de La Fontaine
40. Admiting gerrors deals the score and proves you wiser than before.--Arthur Guiterman
41. It takes a thousand voices to tell a singe story. ---Native American Saying
42. You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.--- Barbara De Angelis
43. It's alright letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.---Mick Jagger
44. Truly loving anothe means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance even celebration of antoehrs personhood.---Karen Casey.
45. If you judge people you have to time to love them.--- Mother Teresa
46. A friend is a gift you give yourself. ---Robert Lois Stevenson
47. All you need is love.---John Lennon
48. Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead. ---Annonymous
49. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ---Epictetus
50. There are always two choise, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only rewaed is that its easy.---Unknown
51. If God can work through me, he can work though anyone. --- Saint Francis Of Assisi (My Confermation Saint and Name)
52. Peace, like charity, begins at home. --- Source Unknown
53. Be kind, foreveryone you meet is fighting a harder battle. ---Plato
54. The Greates gift is a protion of thyself. ---Ralph Waldon Emerson
55. If you would be loved, love and be loveable. --- Benjamin Franklin
56. To give pleasure in a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. ---Gandhi
57. You never knwo what happiness a simple act of kindness will bring about. ---Bree Abel
58. Whats important in life is how we teat eachother.--- Hana Ivanhoe
59. Life isnt about keeping scose. It's not about how may people call you and its not about who youve dated, are dating, or who havent dated at all. It isn't about who you've kissed , what sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you. Its not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your skin or where you live or go to school. In Fact,its not about grades, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you or not. Life isn't about if you have lots of friends, or if your alone and its not about how accepted or unaccepted you are. Life isn't just about that. But Life is about who you love and who you hurt. Its about how you feel about yourself. Its about trust, happyness and compassion. Its about sticking up for your friends, and replacing innner hare with love. LIfe is about avoiding Jealousy, overcoming ignorance and building confidence. It's about seeing people for who they are and now what they have. Most of all, Its about choosing to use your life to touch someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise. These choises are what life's about.
60. The more we know the better we forgive. Who ever feels deeply, feels for all who live.---Madame De Stael
61. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it.---Mark Twain
62. When It comes down to it, we all just want to be loved.---Jamie Yellin
63. Experience the most brutal of teachers. But learn, my Gosh do you Learn. --C.S. Lewis
64. There are high spots in all of our lives, and most of them come about through encouragement from someone else. ---George Adams.
65.In the darkest hour, the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.---Heart Warrior Chosa
66. Shared joy is double joy. Shared sarrow is half sorrow.---Sweedish Proverb
67.Great oppertunities to help seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. ---Sally Koch
68. Those who bring sunsine to the lives of others cannot keep it to themselves. ---James M. Barrie
69. You were brown with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life. ---Rumi
70. Although the world is full of surfferting it is also ful of overcoming it. ---Helen Keller
71. From what we get we can make a living, What we give, however, makes a life. ---Aurther Ashe
72. Knowledge is love and light and vision. --- Helen Keller
73. Face the thing you fear, and you do away with that fear. ---Unknown
74.Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing i t. Whatever you are feeling love yourself for feeling it. ---Thefus Golas
75. the task ahead of us is near as great as the power behind us. --- Alcoholics Annonymous
76. Love is a friut in season at all times and witin the reach of ever heart. ---Mother Teresa
77. Each freind represents a world in you, a world possibly not born until they arrie, and its only by this meeting that a new world is born. --- Anaisnin
78. One kind word can warm three winter months. --- Japanese Proverb
79. Little deeds of kindness, little workds of love helo to make Earth happy. ---Julia Carney
80. Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.--- Carmelia Elliot
81. If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to tbe and could be , he will become what he ought to be and could be.--- Goethe
82. If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink. ---Romans 12:20
83. The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it. ---C.C. Scott
84. It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ---Antoine De Saint Exupery.
85. Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours . ---Melody Beattve
86.Family...A group experience of lose and support.--- Marianne Willamson
87. Things do not change, we change. ---Henry David Thoray
88. I am always ready to learn; but I do not always like being taught. --- Winston Churchill
89. The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the care strength within you that survives all hurt.--- Max Lerner
90. It is important to be involved and stand up for what you believe in.--- Ione Skye
91. Dont forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. ---Hebrews 13:2
Yah- Sorry there are so many!
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AlWaYs ThErE/---
KeLsA*
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i've learned that once you drop your head in defeat..you defeat yourself. So keep your head high because life has good and bad times. When its bad, get through it and wait for the good, because it will come.
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It's not what you learn from a person, it's the effect they leave on you.
Time is percious that's why it's given to us one moment at a time.
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Believe in yourself.
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