Things I've Learned

1. If you are waiting for someone to come along and make you complete, you'll always be incomplete...and you'll always be waiting.

2. Pick your battles. One casualty is too many, if the fight is not worth fighting.

3. Your words are not attached to a yo-yo. Once they're out there, you can't flick your wrist and draw them back in.

4. Trust your intuition. It's there for a reason.

5. Understand that the degree of importance and excitement you place on something will NEVER be able to be matched by those around you. Don't take this as a sign that they do not care...they do.

6. If you make a mistake, admit to it. That's why the sentence for perjury is often worse than the sentence for the original crime.

7. If you want a different result, you need to change the equation. Two plus two will ALWAYS equal four.

8. Enjoy the here and now. Living for the future is not really living at all.

9. You come equipped with a giant bag of tools for the obstacles in life. Sometimes you just have to dig a little deeper in the bag to find the right tool.

10. Become the most important person in MORE than one person's life.

11. A true friend will be there to love and support you, but they won't think twice about pointing out when you have been a jerk.

12. Some things will NEVER make sense. Accept that fact and go on.

13. Wishing for what you don't have will only make you forget about what you ALREADY have.

14. Spiderman and Superman do not exist, but there are everday superheroes all around. You just have to look.

15. It's often easy to forgive, but sometimes it's impossible to forget.

16. You have no control over the beginning and end of your story, but you are the sole author of the middle.

17. Remember that one time when you laughed so hard that milk came out of your nose? Call upon that in the dark moments of life.

18. You are not like everyone else. That's a good thing.

19. No matter how hard you try and hope and pray...you cannot change your past.

20. Never make excuses or be embarrassed for who you truly are.