What is the best advice anyone gave you?
By Humbug25
@Humbug25 (12540)
August 27, 2008 2:11pm CST
When I was younger my mother always told me to never go back on things in life. I really believe this to be true and have always followed it. For example I would never go back into a relationship with the same guy because you would have broken up for a negative reason. You should leave things in the past because things are never as good the second time around as they were the first time and that itself brings disappointment. My mum did exactly that and went back to my dad 8 years after they got divorced and a few years after that split up again. She now admits that this was a huge mistake especially as my dad cheated on her the first time around, why should she trust him again? I don't think he cheated on her the second time but it just didn't work out.
So what is the best advice you were ever given? Who gave you those words of wisdom?
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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27 Aug 08
In a marital fall out it's always me that should say "sorry" even if it's not my fault. Works too!! My FIL (to be) dispensed those words when, as a newly engaged couple, my fiancée and I had a spectacular row. Can't remember why now, but it happened in the car park of a Birmingham crematorium. I remember that!!
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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27 Aug 08
Hi ya p1kef1sh
Hmmm at first I thought that why 'should' you say sorry if it wasn't your fault but in order to defuse a situation sometimes we must be prepared to do something we really don't want but know it will be for the best. Sometimes that is all a woman needs to hear from her man, a simply 'sorry', then she can just carry on like normal again!!
Cheers 
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@sandraliciousy (49)
• United States
27 Aug 08
well i think to never be a fool in love and that when one door closes another one opens i dont think anyone told them to me i learned them from life
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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27 Aug 08
Hi there sandraliciousy
I think that sometimes it is hard not to be a fool in love especially when our hearts are doing all the leading!! 
. It is good advice that when one door closes another door opens. Yes we do learn a lot as we go through life and a lot is self taught by our own mistakes!
Cheers
. It is good advice that when one door closes another door opens. Yes we do learn a lot as we go through life and a lot is self taught by our own mistakes!
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@enola1692 (3323)
• United States
28 Aug 08
My hubbies granny she told me after the birth of my daughter everyone is going to come an give me advice on taking care of the baby she said the best thing to do with the advice they give is smile take it an when they are not loooking throw it out the window
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Cheers 
@relundad (2310)
• United States
28 Aug 08
The best advice that I was ever given was to live everyday to the fullest. Reminded that yesterday is forever gone and tomorrow is not promised.
So everyday I wake up, thanking God for the opportunity of being able to witness another day. Praying that I am able to embrace the day as one more opportunity to make a difference. Taking on the day as one more opportunity to be a better mother,a better sister, a better friend and a better employer.
At the end of my day, I close my eyes knowing that if this was the last opportunity, that for every minute of this day, I seized the moment.
@acegirl (127)
• China
28 Aug 08
I don't think your dad cheated on her. Maybe because her second marriage with the same guy failed again, so she hates your dad's guts,and she has the wrong feeling on your dad.
Well, the best advice given to me is that a person has to live with self-pride. That's what my dad gives to me. He grew up in a country, and that time in China was very bad, people didn't live as well as now. They could fight with each other for a Chinese pancake. Once my dad was pretty hungry, and he was asked to act barks. But he refused, and he kept hungry for a long time. However, finally he braved it out.
So now when others encroached on my self-pride,i will definitely retaliate upon,but LOL, only with my mouth. i will just blame back!
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@madasp (563)
• United States
28 Aug 08
My grandmother told me when I got married to never complain when my husband went fishing because in 10 years I'd be praying for him to go LOL she was right.
but seriously my grandmother gave me so much great advice I wouldn't even know where to begin repeating it all. she had a long and happy marriage and so far by following her advice/example hubby and I have made it 20 yrs with no major problems in sight.
have a great day
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@Paraluman (98)
• Philippines
28 Aug 08
umm...to focus eyes on Jesus and finish the race...
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@iyah10 (4115)
• Kuwait
27 Aug 08
It is my Mother also that always give me and remind me for a word of Wisdom and like for example:
"We need to live each day and enjoy it. I am not saying that we shouldn't have dreams and goals. What I am saying, though, is that we need to remind ourselves that everyday is meant to be lived.
"What I do today is important because
I am exchanging a day of my life for it."
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@razor123 (979)
• India
28 Aug 08
The best advice i have been given by my dad. One day i was very depressed as nothing was going the way i wanted to. I was really pissed out and just thought life is a waste.
But then my sat sat down and spoke to me for a while. He said in life there are always ups and downs. The path is never smooth all the way long. Failures will keep coming by from time to time but you must face them and always think positively.
Never ever look at the past as there is a saying "Don't cry over spilt milk". Always look ahead in life and how u can do better and better. So never look back at what happened. And from that very day i have always taken his advice and am very happy about it.
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@warrior3011 (23)
• United States
28 Aug 08
My father always told me to reach for your goal and never give up and whenever I feel like giving up I remember his words and think to myself. Never give up, never give up. Always accomplish something that you set your goal to.
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@ranveersingh (3)
• India
28 Aug 08
some things just happen in life ,at the end of the day if u take a good look at them u will find that it just happened,but the bad thing was it happened to u,one human lifetime is very precious and short,thre r many things to move on and lead a better life
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
28 Aug 08
Probably to trust my instincts and take my own advice more. I'm pretty bad with the self-doubt thing..so I often get lost in that.
Everyone pretty much tells me that I'm usually pretty wise...but I have a hard time accepting what they say. Still, I try to take my own advice.
Isn't it funny -- well, ironic, how hard it is to take your own words and apply them to your life sometimes?
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@simbrialuis (387)
• Philippines
28 Aug 08
It is the best advice and the worst at the same time..
I should say, that an advice from a beloved aunt told me
"You never choose your family, God gave them to you, you did not choose who will be your parents are or your offsprings are or your siblings are, so you have a mission in that family. You must do something for your family."
An advice when i am being thorned between GF and family, now that GF is now my wife, i am still doing something for my family that sometimes i got the feeling being abused by them. It is like dumb if i do and dumb if i don't.
Helping them is one thing that i love to do...but resolving their issues? That's the curse being somebody who cares too much....its more likely that you would carry the burden too much.
@Barb42 (4214)
• United States
28 Aug 08
Two things - Mother always said never go to bed mad. Always make up before you go to sleep. And, another thing, always be honest and never tell a lie. That way you never have to remember who you told the lie to and you never have to tell another one to back it up.
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@thebohemianheart (8827)
• United States
27 Aug 08
I think the best advice I ever got was from a friend. She told me, Never be afraid of who you are, and never be afraid to show it to the world.
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@robertkhisaw2 (3)
• United States
28 Aug 08
I think that some of the best advice i was ever given was that trust is earned and people can hurt you no matter how close you are to them. As well as love is given freely and that you can't choose your family but you do choose your friends. As well as you can't really help who you develop feelings for they just come from the heart and you can control the feelings you have but when it comes to who you love in the long run you can't really help falling for the person you have falle for if it is meant to be.
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