In My Life I've Learned...

• Sometimes the only person who wants to listen to you is you.
• Blood is thicker than water… and harder to clean up.
• There is no one greater than God.
• Sometimes failure is the biggest success.
• Find something you like doing and stick with it.
• You are the best friend you will ever have.
• What goes around comes around.
• True friends are more valuable than gold.
• Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
• Never give up.
• Always dream.
• Set goals and strive to achieve them.
• Laughter is the best medicine.
• Friends come and go, but family is forever.
• Love is never easy—it takes work.
• Never stop learning.
• A smile can brighten everyone’s day.
• The sun also rises.
• When God closes a door, he opens a window.
• A person’s a person no matter how small.
• Even the grinch had a heart.
• In the face of adversity, stand tall.
• Laugh.
• Life doesn’t always turn out the way you planned.
• Life has no blueprints or roadmaps.
• No one can run your race.
• Learning is an adventure.
• Don’t sweat the small stuff.
• Even the most perfect rose has thorns.
• Choose your friends wisely.
• Create.
• A smile is always better than a frown.
• The most beautiful rainbows come after the most thunderous showers.
• Set your expectations high.
• If you have nothing intelligent to say, shut up!
• Keep a positive attitude.
• Life is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
• Act as if it were impossible to fail.
• Cherish your memories.
• Consider yourself lucky if you can count your true friends on one hand.
• Be smarter than other people, but don’t tell them so.
• Look for silver linings.
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you fall, it will land you among the stars.
• Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
• Think outside the box.
• Expect the unexpectable.
• Be yourself. Don’t try to conform to society’s expectations of what you should be. If you can’t be yourself, who will be you?
• Integrate color.
• Through pain comes strength.
• Age is merely a state of mind.
• Life is too important to be taken seriously.
• Family: You’re born with them, you have to live with them. You can’t get rid of them. You just have to deal with them.
• You can’t change others. You can only change yourself.
• Imagine.
• Learn to let go.