25 Life Lessons

FRIENDSHIP

• Choose your friends wisely
• Appreciate the friends who are there for you
• It’s okay to distance yourself from those that stress you 
• “There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn’t even jump puddles for you” Anonymous

MEDICAL

• Always check medical degrees of who is speaking with you 
• Never undergo any test / procedure that you don’t 100% understand
• Always get a second opinion and beware of false positives
• “America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system” Walter Cronkite, journalist

DIFFICULT TIMES

• Know things could always be worse
• Become wiser but never bitter
• Look for something to be grateful for
• “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way” Viktor E. Frankl, holocaust survivor 

HEALTH

• Read the ingredients on food and know what you are eating
• Exercise keeps the mind and body healthy
• It is important to get enough sleep
• “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” Hippocrates, philosopher

MENTAL

• The brain is a programmable computer 
• Stress is an unhealthy tangible response to intangible thoughts
• Replace worrisome lies with loving truths
• “You have to deprogram your human hard drive of its fear-based programming and reprogram it with love-based programming” Alexander Loyd, life coach

BEAUTY

• Makeup is no match for a proper diet
• Read ingredients on beauty / hygiene products
• Dresses are flattering on any figure
• “Happy girls are the prettiest” Audrey Hepburn, actress

RELATIONSHIPS

• Never date someone whose fb has pics of another girl
• Get pre-marital counseling before marrying someone
• Someone who loves you will respect your boundaries and wait
• “A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the woman he loves” Greg Behrendt, author 

LIFE

• Visit the senior center
• Show compassion to animals
• Always radiate kindness
• Never give up on God 
• “Peace begins with a smile” Mother Teresa, nun and saint