Person #12

Most important life lesson, is people will be s----y to you but you can’t let that change who you are. I try to be nice to most people and leave them feeling better than when they came into contact with me. If someone is mean or hurtful I try to remind myself that’s not what I’m about, and don’t let them change who I want to be or how I treat the next person.

Person #11

An important life lesson I guess is life goes on with or without you. It sounds super depressing but it makes me remember that even though there are bad things in life you can either sit and wallow in the sad stuff or you can deal with it, and let your life continue or you will be stuck in it forever.

Person #10 - Part Two

And best life lesson someone gave me:

Don't be afraid. 

Everything will be fine.

 

Person # 10 - Part One

Best life lesson I will give - Always be yourself. Even when people criticize you or judge you. Don't change to please others. Always try to be the best version of yourself.

Person #9 - Part Two

As for what somebody else has passed on to me… Hmmmmm… Yah. I’m going to seriously up-vote potty training. That was passed down to me. I’m very happy with that knowledge!

Person #9 - Part One

At some point I finally realized that everybody has a different reality, so if you detach yourself from what you perceive as reality for a minute, you can kinda realize how insane the rest of the planet is. That comes in very handy! Particularly with religion and politics and cultural issues!

Person #8 - Part Two

Never lend money to friends or family that you expect to get back. Give it as a gift with no strings or expectations of repayment.

Person #5 - Part Two

The life lesson the someone has passed on to me is to remember to always do the right thing, treat people the way that you want to be treated and have no expectations.

Person #37 - Part One

And the most important life lessons I've learned is that no matter how much you take care of yourself and follow the law and be responsible, it doesn't matter. You can still wake up one day and become permanently, chronically, debilitatingly sick. And those who went out getting wasted and doing drugs every night will be as healthy as ever.

And it sucks.

And it's not fair.

And so much for your dreams.

Health is the most important thing in life. If you don't have health, you don't have anything. You can get by without friends, without being rich, anything, really. But if you don't have health then you have nothing.

That stupid saying, "but at least you have your health" is very true.

Don't compromise your health by pushing yourself well beyond your breaking point. Your health is more important than any job, no matter how amazing or well paid it is.

I disagree with the argument to push yourself no matter what "because it's not like it's going to kill you." Well, it actually can. The body can only take so much, and no matter how strong you are, or how often you've pushed yourself past your limits, you WILL reach a point where your body says no more. No, really, no more.

You'll know when "pushing through" becomes "pushing to stay alive" every minute of every day.

Stop.

Quit.

Don't keep going.

It's not worth it.

Who cares what your resume looks like if you're too disabled to work. All that money you were so proudly earning will now go towards prescriptions and doctor's visits, instead of whatever you had dreamed.

Person #35 - Part One

I learned from my friend to stop comparing myself to others and do what I love and be grateful every day.

 

Person #8 - Part One

Life is too short to stay angry at people for long. It's better to forgive.

Person #7 - Part Two

Time changes everything including your perspective.

Person #6 - Part Two

I guess the most important lesson that I've learned so far is that anything that is worth having is never going to be gained easily.  And in most cases the fight is what makes it worth it.  

If everyone knew how amazing it feels to jump out of an airplane and there was no risk involved everyone would do it.  Knowing there's even the tiniest chance that your parachute won't open takes the option off the table for most people. But if you can put that fear aside for just a short enough time to get yourself up in the plane, make it to the door and finally let go... within 2 seconds that fear leaves your body and for a few minutes you're flying.  And those few minutes you will never forget.

Person #5 - Part One

The most important lesson that I've learned in my life so far is to always be kind, polite, and a woman of integrity.

Person #7 - Part One

Probably not to rely on others for your happiness. If you aren't happy with yourself and your life, no one else can truly make that happen for you even if it seems like they can in the beginning. Sometimes you just need to do things/change things for yourself and you can't always do everything for other people.

If that means that some people are no longer a part of your life in the same way, that's okay. Don't wait around for others - move forward with your own life and your own goals.

Person #6 - Part One

It costs nothing to treat people with kindness. To value people and use things, because the opposite never works.

Person #4 - Part Two

Someone once said - probably - that if you can reach at least one person, you've done more than most of us could accomplish in a lifetime.

Person #4 - Part One

Live in the now. Working with people with TBI (traumatic brain injury), the events of the past few months, everything can change in an instant.

• I had one client who went for his daily bike ride and some teens decided it would be fun to grab his bike and throw him into a mailbox. 

• Another client was just driving home and someone t-boned them and he lost his wife. 

I think the most important is to live in the now. Don't worry about the next step (there are exceptions of course), but if you can't just take a moment and look around and see what you have, you'll just waste away. Then, suddenly, what you do have will be gone, and then where will we be? (especially with stress)

Person #3

I think the one that's most applicable to everyone, and the easiest to "get," is giving yourself time to evaluate what to pick up and what to put down. You don't really know until you need it the most.

• If your life becomes frantic all the time. 

• If you’re unhappy. 

• Or a check in when you ARE feeling pretty good.

What to pick up (or keep) is what is serving you. What to put down is what is no longer serving you. In the sense that you cannot keep things as they are and be your most authentic self and you balance these determinations against the values that you have and the reality of the life that you have.

Person #2 - Part Two

Be kind to yourself. It is perfectly acceptable to make mistakes as long as they are learning tools. It's too easy to internalize "failure". You have to change the way you look at the outcome.

Person #2 - Part One

I would say the biggest thing I've learned is to relax.

Life is hard, no one has it easy, everyone has problems. It's how you deal with them that makes the difference in happiness.

If you stress about everything then everything will be stressful.

I have learned to determine what is important in my life by learning myself. What I value. Knowing that I've learned to make choices based on what I need to be happy.

Person #1

Live life for yourself and no one else because you only have one life. In the end I wouldn't want to have any regrets because I lived my life according to someone else's standards. The most important lesson is to love yourself first.

 It is important to value people and who they are instead of what they have and what they can do for you.