1. Most of it doesn't matter. So much of what I got excited about, anxious about, or wasted my time and energy on, turned out not to matter. There are only a few things that truly count for a happy life. I wish I had known to concentrate on those and ignore the rest.
2. The greatest source of misery and hatred in this world is clinging to past hurts.
3. Waiting to do something until you can be sure of doing it exactly right means waiting for ever.
4. Following the latest fashion, in work or in life, is spiritual and intellectual suicide. You can be a cheap imitation of the ideal of the moment; or you can be a unique individual. The choice is yours. Religion isn't the opiate of the masses, fashion is.
5. If people complain that you're too fond of going your own way and aren't fitting in, you must be on the right track.
6. If you make your work your life, you're making your life into hard work.
7. The quickest and simplest way to wreck any relationship is to listen to gossip.
8. Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.
9. Every winner is destined to be a loser in due course. It's great to be up on the winner's podium. Just don't imagine you can stay there forever. Worst of all is being determined to do so, by any means available.
10. You can rarely, if ever, please, placate, change, or mollify an asshole. The best thing you can do is stay away from every one you encounter. Being an asshole is a contagious disease. The more time you spend around one, the more likely you are to catch it and become one too.
11. Everything takes twice as long as you plan for and produces results about half as good as you hoped.
12. People are oddly consistent. Liars usually tell lies. Cheaters cheat whenever it suits them. A person who confides in you has usually confided in several others first—but not got the response they wanted. A loyal friend will stay loyal under enormous amounts of thoughtless abuse.
13. However hard you try, you can't avoid being yourself. Who else could you be? You can act and pretend, but the person acting and pretending is still you. And if you won't accept yourself—and do the best you can with what you have—who then has any obligation to accept you?
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