What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given?
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Anonymous
Now THAT is funny 
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Anonymous
Yep, I lost a pair of shoes this way too. |
Anonymous
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Ask and you shall receive
or You never know until you ask |
Anonymous
I drove home from church once with my purse on top of my car. On the way home I kept wondering why so many people had been honking at me. It was still on top when I got home, but it was only a 10 minute drive. |
Anonymous
| Worrying is like a rocking chair, you go back and forth but you get nowhere. |
Anonymous
| First time you marry for love, the second time you marry, it's for money and love. |
Anonymous
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love your kids but love your husband more.
after all, he's the one that will be with you no matter what. |
Anonymous
| Change your mind, change your life. |
Anonymous
This one doesn't seem to make that much sense. I don't see husbands as being with you 'no matter what'. What about affairs, divorce, etc? Still, I agree that it's important to shower as much love and affection on your husband as you do on your kids. Don't know about loving him more, though. I guess I do, but it's a different kinda love.... |
Anonymous
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this too will pass
wear sunscreen |
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| How could a mom love her husband more than her kids? Did you mean differently than her kids? Don't moms love their husbands and their children just as much (if such a thing can be measured) but in different ways? And while kids grow up and create lives of their own, aren't they always a part of you, forever and ever? Good advice-Be thankful for what you have-ALL of it. |
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Wear sunscreen
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience…I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you imagine. Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing everyday that scares you Sing Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself. Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements. Stretch Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone. Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.. Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. (Brother and sister together we'll make it through Someday your spirit will take you and guide you there I know you've been hurting, and I know I've been waiting to be there for you. And I'll be there, just tell me now, whenever I can. Everybody's free.) Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out. Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth. But trust me on the sunscreen… (Brother and sister together we'll make it through Someday your spirit will take you and guide you there I know you've been hurting, and I know I've been waiting to be there for you. And I'll be there, just tell me now, whenever I can. Everybody's free.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI |
Anonymous
| Fake it until you make it... |
Anonymous
You don't chose your kids. you'll raise them and they'll do whatever please their hearts. Your husband promised to be there for you and you promised to be there for him. You do have to love him more! and also in a different way. |
Anonymous
| RUN! (Forrest Gump) |