A LITTLE TIPS OF LIFE

LESSONS LEARNED IN LIFE
(author unknown)

No matter how much you care, some people just don't care back.
No matter how good a person is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while, and you must forgive them for that.
Money is a lousy way of keeping score.
Talking can ease emotional pains.
It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
True friendship can continue to grow, even over the longest distance.
You can do something in an instant that will give you a heartache or life.
It's not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life.
Good friends are family members whom we are allowed to choose.
We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
Leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for ourselves.
No matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.
It takes a long time to become the person you want to be.
It's a lot easier to react than it is to think.
You can keep going long after you think you cannot.
Either you control your attitude, or it controls you.
Patience takes a lot of practice.
There are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.
Your best friend and you can do anything or nothing and have the best time.
Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help you get back up.
There is more of your parents in you than you think..
Sometimes when you're angry you have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give you the right to be cruel.
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want him/her to doesn't mean s/he doesn't love you with all s/he has.
Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
Never tell a child his/her dreams are unlikely or outlandish. Few things are more humiliating, and what a tragedy it would be if s/he believed it.
It isn't always enough to be forgiven by someone else. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
No matter how badly your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.