Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.\n\nI have to resouce it for an anthology project in class, if I dont get it cited by tommorow I get a zero, help?
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Looks like the quote is Harvey Mackay, a motivational speaker.  Couldn't tell you what book it might be from, but I do have a website...\n\nwww.mackay.com
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Funny, that's exactly what I'm working on right now.  Love makes us feel good.  I love the sun, I love the rain.  I love children, I just love to wake up in the morning.  It makes me feel good.  I am changing for the better, even though sometimes I'm surrounded by negativity, I try not to let that get me down.  If I cannot change the situation, then I walk away from it, because life is too short to waste your energy on anything but love.\n\nThanks for asking!!!!  I LOVE YOU TOO!!!
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Living the rest of my life saying "if only.."  \n\nEverybody makes mistakes, you can say you don't all you want but you do.  It's part of life to do it.  I believe if you're going around all your life saying what if then you're going to miss out on a lot of stuff.  Saying what if you won't grow, you won't achieve nothing.  \n\n"what if I get the money to open my own cafe?"  In stead of asking yourself "what if" you could actually be doing that and not wasting time wondering if you could.  So, it may not work out, but you tried something new.  \n\nSo, I'm still hooked to living the rest of your life saying "if only..."
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Well... look around... Do you like what you see? Are you happy for what lessons you have already learned? Are you pleased on what you are able to do for the better of tomorrow? That is all really. If you are happy. If you are pleased on what you have as a past, to put you in your position you are in now, and where it can lean you from your own ambition from knowing that this is your life. And if you are not happy with anything, well that is something that needs to be worked out within yourself, because you should be happy for everything in your life. Why should there be a reason for you to be un-happy? Are you missing anything? Do you have patience to take the time and effort to get to that point in obtaining that goal? Everything is in your hands. Just remember to take everything as it is and be happy for it. Don't expect anything. Things will flow much better if you do that. Hope this helps. Cheers!
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I think it's beacause we're human and we've all made mistakes. So when we see a chance to stop someone else from doing things that we regret doing, it's instinctual to try to alter their path in life as a sort of pennance for not altering our own. It's like getting a second chance to see how things would have turned out for us if we'd made different choices in life. And I think the only time someoone is ready to hear our advice is when they say, "Can I have your advice?"
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it depends.\n\nI think you have to live your life in a way that you can live with at the end of the day.\n\nIf you feel guilty about doing it before you do it, then you probably shouldnt go through with it. If you dont, then live life.\n\nIf you do this, you will regret a lot less. Listen to your conscience.
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Well, everyone has their own different opinions and views about the meaning of life. This is something you'll have to decided on your own. \n\nI'll give you my answer to a similiar question about the riddle of life. (Please keep in mind this is just my opinion and that I believe in a God). \nFor me, the secret of life or the riddle of life...whatever you want to call it is to live my life without regret. If I have regret, then I am unhappy as a person. If I am unhappy as a person, then I take for granted the life I was given. If I take for granted the life I was given, then I offend/disrespect God. If I offend/disrespect God, then a part of my soul is sad. If a part of my soul is sad, then I have regret. If I have regret, then I am unhappy as a person, ect...Once it starts, it's a vicious cycle. \n\n*Everyone has a purpose. I've been trying to figure mine out for nearly three years now, and still don't know. However, I have enough faith that it'll come to me when the time is right and when I'm ready for it.*\n\nBest of luck to you in life!
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Depends on the person.  Some people can brush of feelings like turning off a lightswitch.  Other people can't.  Work through your emotions but make sure you get out and meet new people and move on with your life.  Don't get hung up on what might have been.  It's nice to think It would have been nice if... but thinking too much, dwelling on it too much only consumes yourself with doubt and fears that you will never find something like it again.
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Life is full of risks; everything you do is risky. Every time you breathe in and out you are taking a risk that the air is clean and will not kill you. And you survive. You continue to breathe. \nWell, with relationships you have to decide if the risk is worth it. Make a decision and then stick with it. DO NOT look backwards. We can all look back and say 'if only...' but there is no point. You must make the best of whatever decision you do make and enjoy the resultant happenings. YOU have to be in control of your life, not the other way round. Make the decisions, enjoy the results and be in control. Life is great fun if you are. Remember, you are only here once; it should be as happy and as fun as possible. BE IN CONTROL!!!!
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love is all about taking risks if you aren't ready and willing to put yourself out there you will never be successful and yeah you might get rejected but at least you tried. my motto is i don't regret the things i have done only the things i never tried. if you never try you will never know. and FYI listening to your Friends on dating advice usually isn't the most reliable source especially if you are 15. follow your heart it is your best resource
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Life isn't what we make it. Our attitude is what we make it. If you think life is what happens to you, yeah it can get pretty bad. Things can go wrong. Bodies can be damaged, relationships can fail, and plans can be altered in a second. Those are things we can't control, and yes it is hard. \nBut, you are in charge of your ability to get back up after you are knocked down. Nobody can make you stay down, even if it seems like everyone is trying to keep you down. \nMy life has felt that way. I had a brain injury that also broke the bones on one side of my body. I had to come out of a coma, learn how to think (like a baby kind of) learn to walk and talk, write, etc. I had therapy every day for months and months. I lost every friendship I had, and every girl I thought loved me. I lost my self-esteem, and even the will to live sometimes. \nIt's hard to be happy, but it is possible. Nobody can make you give up. Nobody can! Nobody got me to stay down. I graduated with my bachelor's degree, became a personal trainer (after losing the ability to control my body), and then a massage therapist. I'm still single and lonely, but that's just a matter of time. Some lucky woman is about to find a man that can't be kept down. \nLife is hard. I'm glad it is. If it were easy, I wouldn't be as strong as I am. I would have stayed in the wheelchair and let the state support me, popping pills to keep the demons away and drinking my meals. \nI wanted to live. Life is hard, but I am harder. You can't break me. I am going to live, and I'm going to be bappy. \nI want you to know, whoever you are, that I'm sending all my good karma to you. Life is going to get better for you. \nGet ready to make some great things happen. You ready?
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These things happen in life. Sometimes what you want most is unattainable and if you ever get it, you would  have gone past the need for it.\n\nFunny how life gives you choices which are not real. But hey the good thing is that you realize it is too late or it is not for me anymore and move on. The game of life is to move on and not look back.
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I don't know who said it, or the actual quote but it went along the lines of, "If you have 1 true friend, then you have succeeded in life".  I have plenty of true friends and I already feel like my life has mattered (whether for the better or worst I cannot say).  I remember a discussion we had in a class once in which a teacher said, no matter what we do, we will not matter in the large scale of things.  I disagreed of course and stated of course we change history.  For example, what if the man who invented the atom bomb were never born?  What if the people who researched penicillian had different paths and what if certain events, such as a teacher telling a student to get back in line and the student following through never occured?  Had that teacher not been there, the students' world could be very different.\n\nSo, I think everyone's life does matter in some way shape or form, unless you have no interaction with anyone at anytime your life does matter.  And even if you don't, in some way you are still a part of the earth, even when you die and become the ground again.
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Some very shallow people on here. Life is whatever you want it to be. Today it may be one thing and tomorrow another. Life is an adventure. Enjoy it. You say you want alot from life, well start with the small stuff, those easily reached goals, and then go from there. Nothing though is ever written stone, you ideas, dreams etc will change. That is one definite thing in life and that is change.... Just enjoy all that you have and don't think of the petty things because those are not what you really want, they are just perks for being here. Find your passion and follow your heart.
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My life has never been perfect (even till now). Ups and downs and sideways, too. But the essence of life is how you live it during the good times and , unfortunately, during the bad times, too. So all of those bad things I charge to experience and hope that I don't trip over the same rock twice. And for the good things, keep on coming.\n\nMost of those who reply to this question so far say that they should have done better in elementary or high school or college. Right answers. There are no wrong answers. But come to think of it, don't you guys feel that your misses and "mistakes" have helped you to grow stronger and better equipped to face more challenges? What do you think?
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You are no loser! \nThose words are written in complete sentences.\nThat means you are a clear thinker.\nWe all make mistakes, so what! \n\nWe are born to learn and experience life. If you were perfect you wouldn't be human. would you! \n\nWe are lucky if we don't carry a lot sad memories and regret with us because it will weight us down and keep us from achieving our true goals.  You have only so much energy - do you want to waste it thinking about things that are done? There done and finished. Let them be.\n\nIf I was you my top priorities would be to 1st remember what is most important LOVE. \n\nIf you are a kind person you will get kindness in return. \n\nYou don't have to be smart to be wise.\n\nYou don't need to go to college to be well educated in this country.  Libraries are free.\n\nDecide what your passion is in life and go to the library and ask the reference librarian how to do research.  I learned to do research at the university and I realized that was All needed to be well educated. \n\nMy father was an inventor he never went to college. Most people 50 years ago got the best educations by just following their passion and reading. Be happy have and be a good friend and enjoy your life. \n\nBeing well off gets you nothing but worrying about how to protect a lot of stuff.  Be free, travel and get to know the world you live in.  So you are not ruled by fear and believe the lies of people that want to mislead you, be wise.  \n\nKaren
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I don't think there is anyone alive who wouldn't change something or many things in their life if they could. However, the reality is that we can't, so we must live our lives with the knowledge we have learned from each regret. All things happen for a reason. Even though we may hate somethings about our lives I am sure there are awesome things that have come out of those terrible ordeals. For instance anyone who has gotten married only to get divorced, but had children, would say that having their children was the best thing that ever happened to them. Even though they had to go through it with that old hag or that jerk! So, we can complain all we want, but instead I would like to challenge you to thank the old hag and the jerk for the greatest gift of all......your kids!