QOTW- advice

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QOTW- advice
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Thu, 07-26-2007 - 1:35am

What's the best advice you ever received- doesn't matter the topic... love/ marriage/ relationships/ parenting/ life/ work/ etc...



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Registered: 05-13-2005
In reply to: cl_alison
Thu, 07-26-2007 - 9:23am

From my dad:

"Don't do anything dumb."

He figured that covered just about everything.....

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Registered: 03-25-2002
In reply to: cl_alison
Thu, 07-26-2007 - 10:16am

Love ~ I am responsible to make myself happy.
No man or anyone else will make me happy if I'm not happy with myself. It's not their job. Nor is it my job to make a man happy (or make other people happy). They are responsible for their own happiness as well.

I do not need to manipulate a situation. I am worthy of love and worthy of being pursued. Sometimes the only thing i need to do is BE STILL.

Fear ~ Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is feeling fear and doing it anyway. If the fear doesn't go away, do it with fear! Do it anyway (like the song by Martina McBride).

I've recieved lots of good advice... but honestly, I don't always take it. d'oh. It does stick in my head and eventual i take it. Some of the best dating advice i got is from reading "How To Get A Date Worth Keeping" by Henry Cloud.

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Registered: 12-19-2003
In reply to: cl_alison
Thu, 07-26-2007 - 11:20am

- Never go to bed angry
- Don't think about your past, because you can't change any of it
- Regret nothing, because at one point it was exactly the way you wanted it.
- Life is too short to sweat the small stuff
- Everyone makes their own happiness.
- If you think positive, everything else just falls into place.

And my mother's famous advice on men: They are all the same with different faces... :)

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Registered: 07-01-2005
In reply to: cl_alison
Thu, 07-26-2007 - 12:08pm

From my mother:
~If you believe it, you can do it!~

From my daddy:
~Kill them with kindness~

Hehehe, my dad was ALWAYS nice to people, no matter what.

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Registered: 01-05-2004
In reply to: cl_alison
Thu, 07-26-2007 - 2:16pm

From my grandmother: Finish your education before getting married.

From a friend: This too shall pass.

That's about all. lol

Jennifer

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Registered: 09-01-2006
In reply to: cl_alison
Thu, 07-26-2007 - 3:07pm

I first heard this when Sinead O'Connor was huge on the music scene (now that really ages me doesn't it?!?!?!)

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Give me the courage to change the things that I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

I think this is also very similar to credo's/parayers used at many 12 step programs.

Rose

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Registered: 02-08-2006
In reply to: cl_alison
Thu, 07-26-2007 - 8:42pm

I don't remember who first said this to me- I think my maternal grandmother, who was a HUGE gardener- but I'll never forget it. "Bloom where you are planted"

It's so simple, but to me, means, be happy with what you have, don't wish for more, and simply learn to enjoy yourself where you are now, without worrying about where you're going.


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Registered: 03-15-2004
In reply to: cl_alison
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 1:38am

From my mom:

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Registered: 03-15-2004
In reply to: cl_alison
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 1:38am
& "when someone shows you who they are, BELEIVE them".

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Registered: 05-13-2005
In reply to: cl_alison
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 7:14am
This is so so so so true - I love that one!! We all have to tend to our own gardens and make them beautiful instead of looking at others and wishing we had one like that. I think this is the single thing I have improved upon the most since my divorce - that I am responsible for my own happiness and I realize that I cannot control the actions of others, only my own.