1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

2. Memorize your favorite poem.

3. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have, or loaf all you want.

4. When you say, "I love you," mean it.

5. When you say, "I’m sorry," look the person in the eye.

6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

7. Believe in love at first sight.

8. Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much.

9. Love deeply and passionately. You may get hurt, but it’s the only way to live life completely.

10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

11. Don’t judge people by their relatives, or by the life they were born into.

12. Teach yourself to speak slowly but think quickly.

13. When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"

14. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

15. Call your mother.

16. Say, "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.

17. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

18. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions.

19. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

20. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

21. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

22. Marry a person you love to talk to. As you get older, his/her conversational skills will be even more important.

23. Spend some time alone.

24. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

25. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

26. Read more books. Television is no substitute.

27. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.

28. Trust in God but lock your car.

29. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. Do all you can to create a tranquil, harmonious home.

30. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation.Don’t bring up the past.

31. Don’t just listen to what someone is saying. Listen to why they are saying it.

32. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.

33. Be gentle with the earth.

34. Pray or meditate. There’s immeasurable power in it.

35. Never interrupt when you are being flattered.

36. Mind your own business.

37. Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t close his/her eyes when you kiss.

38. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

39. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. It is wealth’s greatest satisfaction.

40. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

41. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

42. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your needs for each other.

43. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

44. Live with the knowledge that your character is your destiny.

45. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Insights on Life

• Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one
  so that when we finally meet the right person,
  we will know how to be grateful for that gift.

• When the door of happiness closes, another opens,
  but often times we look so long at the closed door
  that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us.

• The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with,
  never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve every had.

• It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also
  true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.

• Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they’ll love you back!
  Don’t expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn’t, be content it grew in yours.

• Don’t go for looks; they can deceive.
  Don’t go for wealth; even that fades away
  Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes
  only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
  Find the one that makes your heart smile.

• There are moments in life when you miss someone
  so much that you just want to pick them from
  your dreams and hug them for real!

• Dream what you want to dream;
  go where you want to go;
  be what you want to be,
  because you have only one life and one chance
  to do all the things you want to do.

• May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
  enough trials to make you strong,
  enough sorrow to keep you human,
  enough hope to make you happy.

• Always put yourself in others’ shoes.
  If you feel that it hurts you,
  it probably hurts the other person, too.

• The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything;
  they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

• Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt,
  those who have searched, and those who have tried,
  for only they can appreciate the importance of people
  who have touched their lives.

• The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past,
  you can’t go on well in life until you let go
  of your past failures and heartaches.

• When you were born, you were crying and
  everyone around you was smiling.
  Live your life so that when you die,
  you’re the one who is smiling and
  everyone around you is crying.