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.

{The last one is quite profound, isn't it?)

From: Mary Moore