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

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Be it from mumsnet or real life!

Don't pick it up, don't put it down.

To mean; don't pick up someone else's compliments, but at the same time, don't be put down by someone else's insults.

Hey, this is like one of those mostly 'b's, etc ... psychometric tests in a magazine. All you have to do is highlight, copy and paste just the bits of advice that ring true to yourself, or make you laugh out loud in sympathy, and the majority tone indicates your own personality.

I'm a nothing lasts forever, and things could be worse kind of girl.
It's great!

Oh, ... and I'm beginning to see the truth in this one ...

Trust yourself. 48 hours spent mulling over any problem. It will be enough for you to know that you already have the answer within yourself. You just have to give yourself enough peace and quiet to listen out for it.

Always keep your toilet clean - my mum

Everyone's got a degree in hindsight - FiL

Children are the most precious resource in the whole world, like tiny acorns they have the potential to be giant oak trees.

Loughrigg - Oh wow, love that one!

Leave it. Make a Cup of Tea and Sit Down. has been worth its weight in gold over the last 13 years of parenting.

'Don't poke a stick at a grumpy dog'

With reference to toddlers - if you don't have the energy and commitment to win the war, don't enter the battle.

If it's right for you, you'll get it - my lovely mum

My gran: Godliness before cleanliness (loving and grubby)
My mum: Cleanliness before Godliness (difficult and anal)

Revenge is. Form of self harm

Be self reliant. There will always be someone to help you.

Chinese? proverb - people often went to the wise man and complained of their troubles. One day the wiseman told everyone to put their troubles in a bag. He put all the bags in a pile and told the people they could pick any bag - everyone left with the one containing their own troubles. Moral being that when it comes down to it you wouldn't swop your problems for anyone elses.

You always have choices - remind yourself this often, all the choices may be unattractive, but you are generally doing the best you can.

Worrying is interest paid on things that haven't happened yet.

Everyone is responsible for their own happiness.

Take up opportunities - and remember kindness and helping others is an opportunity to make the world a better place.

Treat others with the kindness and respect you would like to be treated to.

Love this thread. And particularly love this.......

Wherever you go there you are - very clever, very wise

From my Gran's collection of 'motto' pottery
'Do not stain today's blue skys with tomorrows clouds'
'Give any man thy ear but few thy tongue'
And from MN re babies
'the days are long but the years are short'
I try to live my life with these in mind.

Life's a journey, travel light.

Oh, and Im sure this has already been said (only read first page of post), never leave on an argument. Patient of mine said this and it hit home after I had left for work after an argument with DH...it happened to her once and she never saw husband again. Tragically died after an accident.

I love this one about depression. Very true

This one is from my late Grandma

"Don't put it down, put it away."

If I listened and did this everyday, my house would be very tidy.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove any possible doubt .

If it's meant to be, it will be....

Just get on with it

Stop caring so much what other people think of you - especially strangers, makes life so much nicer and easier

Listen. Sometimes opportunity knocks very quietly.

When your children misbehave and tell you they don't love you when you have to tell them off, reply by saying "that's a pity because I love you, it's your behaviour I don't like!" I was given that pearl of wisdom from a friends mum just after the birth of my son and I've used it many times it always diffuses the situation.

Treat your neighbour as you would like to be treated (my y3 teacher paraphrasing jesus).

So true