"What I've learned in Life"

**I've learned that no matter how much I care, 
some people just don't care back.

**I've learned that 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.

**I've learned that money is a lousy way of keeping 
score.

**I've learned that talking can ease emotional pains.

**I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and 
only seconds to destroy it.

**I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, 
even over the longest distance.

**I've learned that you can do something in an instant 
that will give you a heartache for life.

**I've learned that it's not what you have in your life, 
but who you have in your life.

**I've learned that good friends are family members 
that we are allowed to choose.

**I've learned that we don't have to change friends if 
we understand that friends change.

**I've learned that the people you care most about in 
life are taken from you too soon.

**I've learned that you should always leave loved ones 
with loving words.  It may be the last time you see them.

**I've learned that our background and circumstances 
may have influenced who we are, but we are 
responsible for ourselves.

**I've learned that you shouldn't compare yourself to the 
best others can do, but to the best you can do.

**I've learned that it's not where I am that is important. 
It's where I am going.

**I've learned that no matter how thin you slice it, there 
are always two sides.

**I've learned that it takes a long time to become the 
person I want to be.

**I've learned that it's a lot easier to react than it is to 
think.

**I've learned that you can keep going long after you
think you cannot.

**I've learned that either you control your attitude, or it 
controls you.

**I've learned that heroes are the people who do what 
has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless 
of the consequences.

**I've learned that patience takes alot of practice.

**I've learned that there are people who love you 
dearly, but just don't know how to show it.

**I've learned that my best friend and I can do 
anything or nothing and have the best time.

**I've learned that sometimes the people you expect 
to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help 
you get back up.

**I've learned that there is more of my parents in me 
that I thought.

**I've learned that sometimes when I'm angry I have 
the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right 
to be cruel.

**I've learned that 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.

**I've learned that 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.

**I've learned that you should 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.

**I've learned that it isn't always enough to be forgiven 
by someone else.  Sometimes you have to learn to 
forgive yourself.

**I've learned that no matter how bad your heart is 
broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

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