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Shamelessly copied from Matt’s facebook (amazing wisdom from the most unexpected source). My favs are highlighted<\/font>.<\/p>\n

88 Important Truths About Life
\nby Pablo Popovitch on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 8:40pm<\/a><\/p>\n

1. You can\u2019t change other people, and it\u2019s rude to try.<\/font><\/p>\n

2. It is a hundred times more difficult to burn calories than to refrain from consuming them in the first place.<\/p>\n

3. If you\u2019re talking to someone you don\u2019t know well, you may be talking to someone who knows way more about whatever you\u2019re talking about than you do.<\/p>\n

4. The cheapest and most expensive models are usually both bad deals.<\/p>\n

5. Everyone likes somebody who gets to the point quickly.<\/p>\n

6. Bad moods will come and go your whole life, and trying to force them away makes them run deeper and last longer.<\/p>\n

7. Children are remarkably honest creatures until we teach them not to be.<\/font><\/p>\n

8. If everyone in the TV show you\u2019re watching is good-looking, it\u2019s not worth watching.<\/p>\n

9. Yelling always makes things worse.<\/font><\/p>\n

10. Whenever you\u2019re worried about what others will think of you, you\u2019re really just worried about what you\u2019ll think of you.<\/p>\n

11. Every problem you have is your responsibility, regardless of who caused it.<\/font><\/p>\n

12. You never have to deal with more than one moment at a time.<\/p>\n

13. If you never doubt your beliefs, then you\u2019re wrong a lot.<\/p>\n

14. Managing one\u2019s wants is the most powerful skill a person can learn.<\/p>\n

15. Nobody has it all figured out.<\/p>\n

16. Cynicism is far too easy to be useful.<\/p>\n

17. Every passing face on the street represents a story every bit as compelling and complicated as yours.<\/font><\/p>\n

18. Whenever you hate something, it hates you back: people, situations and inanimate objects alike.<\/p>\n

19. Ralph Waldo Emerson\u2019s works alone can teach you everything you need to know about living with grace and happiness.<\/p>\n

20. People embellish everything, as a rule.<\/p>\n

21. Anger reveals weakness of character, violence even more so.<\/p>\n

22. Humans cannot destroy the planet, but we can destroy its capacity to keep us alive. And we are.<\/font><\/p>\n

23. When people are uncomfortable with the present moment, they fidget with their hands or their minds. Watch and see.<\/p>\n

24. Those who complain the most, accomplish the least.<\/p>\n

25. Putting something off makes it instantly harder and scarier.<\/p>\n

26. Credit card debt devours souls.<\/p>\n

27. Nobody knows more than a minuscule fraction of what\u2019s going on in the world. It\u2019s just way too big for any one person to know it well.<\/font><\/p>\n

28. Most of what we see is only what we think about what we see.<\/font><\/p>\n

29. A person who is unafraid to present a candid version of herself to the world is as rare as diamonds.<\/p>\n

30. The most common addiction in the world is the draw of comfort. It wrecks dreams and breaks people.<\/p>\n

31. If what you\u2019re doing feels perfectly safe, there is probably a better course of action.<\/p>\n

32. The greatest innovation in the history of humankind is language.<\/p>\n

33. Blame is the favorite pastime of those who dislike responsibility.<\/p>\n

34. Everyone you meet is better than you at something.<\/p>\n

35. Proof is nothing but a collection of opinions that match your own.<\/font><\/p>\n

36. Knowledge is belief, nothing more.<\/p>\n

37. Indulging your desires is not self-love.<\/font><\/p>\n

38. What makes human beings different from animals is that animals can be themselves with ease.<\/p>\n

39. Self-examination is the only path out of misery.<\/font><\/p>\n

40. Whoever you are, you will die. To know and understand that means you are alive.<\/p>\n

41. Revenge is for the petty and irresponsible.<\/p>\n

42. Getting truly organized can vastly improve anyone\u2019s life.<\/font><\/p>\n

43. Almost every clich\u00e9 contains a truth so profound that people have been compelled to repeat it until it makes you roll your eyes. But the wisdom is still in there.<\/p>\n

44. People cause suffering when they are suffering themselves. Alleviating their suffering will help them not hurt others.<\/font><\/p>\n

45. High quality is worth any quantity, in possessions, friends and experiences.<\/p>\n

46. The world would be a better place if everyone read National Geographic.<\/p>\n

47. If you aren\u2019t happy single, you won\u2019t be happy in a relationship.<\/font><\/p>\n

48. Even if it costs no money, nothing is free if it takes time.<\/p>\n

49. Emotions exist to make us strongly biased towards or against something. This hinders as often as it helps.<\/p>\n

50. Addiction is a much greater problem in society than it\u2019s made out to be. It\u2019s present in every person in various forms, but usually we call it something else.<\/p>\n

51. \u201cGut feeling\u201d is not just a euphemism. Tension in the abdomen speaks volumes about how you truly feel about something, beyond all arguments and rationales.<\/font><\/p>\n

52. Posture and dress change profoundly how you feel about yourself and how others feel about you, like it or not.<\/font><\/p>\n

53. Everyone thinks they\u2019re an above average driver.<\/p>\n

54. The urge to punish others has much more to do with venting frustration than correcting behavior.<\/p>\n

55. By default, people think far too much.<\/p>\n

56. If anything is worth splurging on, it\u2019s a high-quality mattress. You\u2019ll spend a third of your life using it.<\/p>\n

57. There is nothing worse than having no friends.<\/p>\n

58. To write a person off as worthless is an act of great violence.<\/p>\n

59. Try as we might to be otherwise, we are all hypocrites.<\/p>\n

60. Justice is a human invention which is in reality rarely achievable, but many will not hesitate to destroy lives demanding it.<\/font><\/p>\n

61. Kids will usually understand exactly what you mean if you keep it to one or two short sentences.<\/p>\n

62. Stuff that\u2019s on sale usually has an annoying downside.<\/p>\n

63. Casual swearing makes people sound dumb.<\/p>\n

64. Words are immensely powerful. One cruel remark can wound someone for life.<\/p>\n

65. It\u2019s easy to make someone\u2019s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.<\/p>\n

66. Most of what children learn from their parents isn\u2019t taught on purpose.<\/font><\/p>\n

67. The secret ingredient is usually butter, in obscene amounts.<\/p>\n

68. It is worth re-trying foods that you didn\u2019t like at first.<\/p>\n

69. Problems, when they arise, are rarely as painful as the experience of fearing them.<\/p>\n

70. Nothing \u2014 ever \u2014 happens exactly like you pictured it.<\/font><\/p>\n

71. North Americans are generally terrible at accepting compliments and offers of help.<\/p>\n

72. There are not enough women in positions of power. The world has suffered from this deficit for a long time.<\/p>\n

73. When you break promises to yourself, you feel terrible. When you make a habit of it, you begin to hate yourself.<\/font><\/p>\n

74. A good nine out of ten bad things I\u2019ve worried about never happened. A good nine out of ten bad things that did happen never occurred to me to worry about.<\/p>\n

75. You can\u2019t hide a bad mood from people who know you well, but you can always be polite.<\/p>\n

76. Sometimes you have to remove certain people from your life, even if they\u2019re family.<\/p>\n

77. Anyone can be calmed in an instant by looking at the ocean or the stars.<\/font><\/p>\n

78. There is no point finishing a book you aren\u2019t enjoying. Life is too short for that. Swallow your pride and put it down for good, unfinished.<\/p>\n

79. There is no correlation between the price of a brand of batteries and how long they last.<\/p>\n

80. Breaking new ground only takes a small amount more effort than you\u2019re used to giving.<\/p>\n

81. Life is a solo trip, but you\u2019ll have lots of visitors. Some of them are long-term, most aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

82. One of the best things you can do for your kids is take them on road trips. <\/font>I\u2019m not a parent, but I was a kid once.<\/p>\n

83. The fewer possessions you have, the more they do for you.<\/font><\/p>\n

84. Einstein was wiser than he was intelligent, and he was a genius.<\/p>\n

85. When you\u2019re sick of your own life, that\u2019s a good time to pick up a book.<\/p>\n

86. Wishing things were different is a great way to torture yourself.<\/font><\/p>\n

87. The ability to be happy is nothing other than the ability to come to terms with how things change.<\/p>\n

88. Killing time is an atrocity. It\u2019s priceless, and it never grows back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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