To ask what the best advice you've ever been given is?

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Just that really. Following on from the "worst advice on Mumsnet" thread-what is the best advice you've ever been given (real life or Mumsnet)?

Fake it until you make it.

You reap what you sow.

Everything is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Treat people how you want to be treated.

Get your gratitude from helping others.

This one stood out for me, I've lived my life by this rule. When times are hard, I look at my gratitude list.

My favourite piece of advice came from a print my parents got me when i was a student "what matters most is how you see yourself" (with a picture of a scruffy cat looking in a mirror with a lion in the reflection)
This has always really resonated with me.

Actually, thinking back, the best piece of advice was from my mum:

"If you're going to get married, marry someone kind".

Distrust any fatalistic, it's the way the universe has decreed it/it will all work out for the best/if you can't have what you love, love what you have-type aphorisms.

What is the drains/radiators saying? A couple of previous posters have mentioned it but I haven't heard it before.

Thursday the saying is that "people are either radiators or drains." They either radiate warmth and comfort into your life or they drain you of it.

Ah, that makes sense

When I was younger I borrowed MILs car to visit my family at Christmas. Got carried away on the journey and thought I'd been caught speeding on the motorway. Half seriously joked with dh at the dinner table that night about what 'excuse' I could give to MIL when she received the speeding notice....my Grandma looked at me very kindly but firmly and said 'you always tell the truth pet'

She was right, and I always do.

I have two.

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted" which always makes me view disappointments more positively.

and a strange quote from Madmen after Peggy had a secret baby and gave it away and Don says to her

"This never happened, . It will shock you how much it never happened." - I have erased whole parts of my life in my head because of this quote - It's brilliant.