What's the best advice you have ever received?

[NoEffingWay]

Mine was from someone who when they found out I had left my ex-h who said that there would be many who would judge me, but that they weren't living my life, and that being in a relationship which made me unhappy and depressed was not worth staying for.
Until that point, all I had heard from people was that I should think about trying harder to stay, and to think about what material goods I would lose (house and car).
Listening to them gave me the strength I needed to remember what was important, and that my feelings were worth more than bricks and mortar.

You made the decisions you did because of the information you had at the time.

Said by my cbt therapist when I was recovering from a traumatic birth and was suffering ptsd. I was beating myself up about decisions I’d made and how the birth had ended. She sat me down and went through the decisions I’d made and the reasons for it at the time and it made me see that hindsight is all well and good but I didn’t know these things at the time so I shouldn’t beat myself up about it. It made me let go of my guilt and allow myself to start to move on and heal.

I often think of it if I’m regretting a decision or thinking I should have done something differently and it helps me get some perspective and not be so hard on myself.

Don't sweat the small stuff!
Choose your battles
If you're worrying about something, ask yourself will you be worrying about it next week; probably not.
When people speak, listen. Don't be thinking about what you're going to say next.

When you are going through hell, keep going.

Don't drink your calories.

Don't give up something/someone who is 90% perfect chasing the other 10% as it/they won't provide you with 100% (the original quote was far better than my version!)

Love the one about the way people treat you is about them not you, I have heard various versions over the years, but the one by an early poster resonated.

Don’t listen to what people say. Look at what they do.

Don’t be reliant on a man, you never know what is around the corner.

Girls are just as good as boys and often better.