What advice or quote changed your life or circumstance?

[twirlywoo69]

Just wondering if there is a quote or piece of advice that you have read or being told has completely changed your life or way of thinking?

People can only be as nasty to you as you let them. The agony aunt in the Sunday Times Magazine about 10 years ago. This was a revelation to me and I started standing up for myself one heck of a lot more.

There was one I saw this morning that is really apt for me at the moment.

"It is not the future that you are afraid of. Its repeating the past that makes you anxious."

Quotes really help me. Great thread OP.

That's really helpful Liz - not one I've heard before.

Don't count the days, make the days count - first encountered as a kind of 12 step slogan but it's more than that. We don't know how long we will have, but we have today.

Happiness is a choice.

Desiderata.
I don't know the whole writing by heart but its not long. I love it, and when I am angry, specially hormonal I repeat the first line in my head like a mantra:
"Go placidly amidst the noise and haste..."
I am trying to memorize the rest by heart, it's beautiful.

If you can't change the problem, change your attitude to the problem.