What was the wisest thing anyone ever said to you?

Question

And who said it?

Answer 1

"To thine own self be true ..." by my father.

Answer 2

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. - Alfred Sheinwold

and

Albert Einstein of course:
Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

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A good rest is half the work.

Answer 3

"If someone who you think is successful and powerful is stupid enough to invite you to an event, the least you should do is show up". A mentor told me that when I was starting out in my career, on whether I should attend high society business functions and parties when invited. I was not confident in myself and kept asking why I was on the list.

Answer 4

You will be missing the fights and the screams and the yelling and the messy hands, and the crying, and the staying up way past bed time SO much when you are 70 and sitting alone in your nursing home room, so suck it up, be patient with them, and enjoy it while you can.

Answer 5

"live your life as if each day is your last, enjoy each moment of your day no matter how stressful it is, find a ray of hope in whatever makes you sad and better yet, mad, and never ever hold a bad thought, grudge, or ill feeling toward anyone who "touches" your life, and you will be the happiest and richest in life and love"

Me to my 23 year old daughter.

Answer 6

No matter how bad things get, they could always be worse.


My mother told me that a few years before she passed away. To this day, I live by that, I teach my children that, and it helps to get me through the hardest of times. There is alot of truth to that.

Answer 7

When you drink out of a glass of milk and find the milk sour, you don't drink from the same glass again. My brother said it after a relationship gone bad.

Answer 8

Never get involved.
Meaning, whatever the sticky situation with people may be, remain as uninvolved as possible, giving nobody, no reason to do anything. Even if you are smack bang in the middle, remain as uninvolved as possible.

Answer 9

The wisest thing anybody said to me is this
"He who believes in me, though he die, he shall live."

Answer 10

Keep your hopes high and your doubts low and you will see what you can achieve. I actually told this to a friend of mine in school a long time ago.

Answer 11

My Daddy (who just turned 87) told me--"Kid--as long as you have food in your belly, a roof over your head and paid bills--you're fine---don't worry about having "stuff".