What's the best advice you're ever been given?

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Be it from mumsnet or real life!

Deal with it and move on.

Look forwards not backwards.

As one door closes another opens

Everything you do has a consequence

Smile, and the world smiles with you - I think that's very true

If you can't pay in pound notes, you can't afford it.

Humans are programmed to fall in love, make sure you like the man first.
From DDad.

One for tonight. Also DDad's

The ice is always on the apex of the bend, you were already taking too fast.

one from my lovely irish teacher. i think it's an irish saying.

"dont break your leg on a stool that's not in your way."

also he taught us "a man's nose is often broken by his mouth" he was very keen on making sure you were prepared for the consequences of what you said in any circumstance and this one was often trotted out to us.

Some good advice there.

I try remind myself of
"What's meant for you won't pass you"

and I wish I had have listened to my Mother's advice.........

"Throw out all of those books" (pointing at the shelf-full of baby care/parenting books). You live and learn.

If you do what you always do ... you'll get what you always got.

This is a great thread!

"Every cloud has a silver lining"

Never say something in the heat of the moment just to hurt someone. You'll always regret it.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Booyhoo - great line on bitterness.

Bumblequeen - fab quote from Paulo Coelho on your first line:

"We wouldn't worry nearly as much about what others thought of us, if we recognise how seldom they do."

'It's only a problem if you decide it is'

Good to remember when being given unsolicited baby advice, again

If you can't be good, be careful! Also only gain what you can afford. Treat others how you'd like to be treated, good manners are free.

dh said this with regard to my dad...

"expect nothing, that way you'll never be disappointed"

Loads of great thoughts on here.

On what others think of us:
'I don't care what you think of me; I don't think about you at all' (Coco Chanel)

Also, I read a blog once about not engaging in malicious gossip and try to live by that - if I wouldn't say or repeat something to someones face then I'll not repeat it (unless it's to my DH!)

Keep a secret if someone has trusted you with it.

Be kind and treat others as you would like to be treated.

Don't engage with arseholes - there are enough good people in the world.

You make a better door than a window.

Can't have cook for tea and cook for dinner.

You'll have someone's eye out with that.

when i was at uni I was pregnant with my first baby and really worried. My mum was already dead and my grandad sort of "stepped in" to try to give advice when i was in a panic. He was ill on oxygen and in his 80s. I can see it clear as day in my head - he took his mask of looked at me and said "when shes a toddler - bed at 6 get up at 6 and everything else will work our". I suppose it was really old fashioned in a way but thats what I did, once she was past the baby stage (and my grandad was dead by this point) she went to bed at six and we got up at 6 and it worked!. Now there are 5 of them we still have the same pattern (oldest is 8 now so her bedtime is 7:30 though! but the under 5s still to bed at 6, 6 year old at 7, 8 year old at 7:30).

There is NO negotiation and actually I dont know how I would manage without the routine that is set. People say how do you manage with the 5 and running the business etc - because I get up early and have plenty of time to relax in the evening.

Of all the advice I have been given thats the one that I will NEVER forget!

One I have been given lots of times on mn is just to always trust your gut. It really has never failed me. That feeling is there for a very good reason. And it's not a good feeling for a very good reason.

"Never eat anything bigger than your head."

If only I'd listened!

Crikey Corlan - what have you been eating? Whole cows?

Always view people through rose tinted glasses. People all have faults and most of them can be forgiven/overlooked.

Life's hard, get a helmet. - I take this to mean you shouldn't expect things to be easy.

Just because someone tries to hand you a pile of shit doesn't mean you have to take it. - Learn to say no.

Live within your means. That was from my Dad. He didn't approve of debt. Also don't eat green potatoes. I didn't know they were really bad for you but apparently they are.

"enjoy every minute"..said to me by lots of different people when DS was born and 11 months on they were so right! I've enjoyed so many seconds, minutes, hours and days but I could have enjoyed some more if I'd stuck more closely to their advice!