Whats the best advice anyone ever gave you?

[Ori]

Mine was "Reach into the heavens for your dreams, it is better to burn up in the attempt then to fall back without them" .

This was a couple of years ago from a dear friend.

 

[Unedited]

You get out of life what you put into it.

My father's been telling me this for years, but I'm just now realizing how true it is.

 

[retrorich]

The best advice anyone ever gave me was, "Never take anyone's advice."

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

If you don't make mistakes you don't make anything.

Terry
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Blessed are the merciful, mercy shall be shown unto them.

 

[Engyo]

You can trust anyone, on one condition. You must trust them to be exactly as they are, rather than as you would like them to be.

 

[Circle_One]

"Never play near Volcanoes."

Given by my best friend upon being prompted by an incredibly rude waitress demanding a tip. It was headed by "Here's a tip:"

 

[michel]

Maybe my Mother's maxim; " nothing in life will ever be as good nor as bad as they might seem to you".

One example was when I was a weekly boarder at boarding School, I was so anxious to get out of the school one week end when my parents were due to pick me up. So great was my hurry was that when someone called your parents are here, Michel, that I accidentally knocked a bottle of ink over in my desk - and the bottle had no top!

I will never forget the worry and anxiety through which I put myself through, that week end - it was awful - with a capital 'A'!!!

Of course, you have probably guessed, when I got back to the school on the monday, the bottle was on it's side, but only a drop or two had been spilled - because the bottle wasn't full..................

That was a real lesson for me - in fact so great that I shall never forget it;

The flip side is that there have been times when I have been invited out - looked forwards to it for days, only to be disappointed by the reality of my expectations.......

 

[Mike182]

the best advise i was ever given was "be true to yourself, and follow your heart at all times" and i have done :bounce

 

[Original Freak]

My mother...

"Don't care what everyone thinks about you."

 

[Pussyfoot Mouse]

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!

 

[Jaymes]

Due to me being spastic and working myself up about everything, "Relax."

 

[QTpi]

"Get some sleep! Things will look better in the morning."
It's not that things are any better, but they are easier to deal
with when you are rested and can think more clearly.

 

[michel]

Due to me being spastic and working myself up about everything, "Relax."

Easier said than done...

 

[anders]

A true philosopher, bricklayer by profession, once told me after having watched me watching and helping my g/f during a party, "You can't live the life of another person".

That was one of the major pushes that made me change my life in several ways. If I met him again, I couldn't thank him enough.

 

[huajiro]

"hope for the best, expect the worst"

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!

That and, Your greatest weapon lies within your enemies mind.
It is better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all.
You HAVE to have a college education with this type of thing, because you may never be able to make a living from it. (Mick Foley explaining the value of a college education, especially for young indy wrestlers, since less than 100, maybe a little more, pro-wrestlers in this world actually make a good living doing it.)

 

[Unedited]

You get out of life what you put into it.

My father's been telling me this for years, but I'm just now realizing how true it is.

Also with this: You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

I try to apply the first one to long term goals, and the second to the short term goals.

 

[johnnys4life]

You can trust anyone, on one condition. You must trust them to be exactly as they are, rather than as you would like them to be.

That is good advice! I suppose the best advice I EVER ever got was from my dad. He was a single parent, and our neighbor's kids were little pervs, so we had the whole sex talk when I was only 9!

This is what he said: "I'm your dad, and I'm a nice guy, but for the most part, men are pigs. There are so many jerks out there who will want only one thing from you, and even sometimes good men will have trouble with that. Keep your legs crossed. They'll say anything. They'll tell you they love you, tell you you're beautiful, whatever you want to hear. Don't trust them."

And I didn't!! He was so right. I saw girls falling for that left and right, being used and dumped, but not me, cause my daddy taught me right.

 

[johnnys4life]

Now that my husband is a daddy, I've told him he will be on his own with the whole sex talk thing as well. I told him, "Explain to her that men are pigs, and that she needs to find the one guy out there who isn't, and snatch him up before somebody else does."

LOL.

 

[Scuba Pete]

"Don't stop breathing".