Tell us the best piece of advice you’ve ever received and who it came from.I’ll start. My grandfather told me, when I was a late teenager, never to buy the cheapest or the most expensive item. Always go for the middle option—you’ll find better quality and spend much less using this method. You get what you pay for.

#1

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet – Abraham Lincoln.

#2

I don’t know about the best advice in general, but the best work related advice was from my supervisor. It was over 40 years ago, so I don’t remember it word for word, but this is pretty close. “Don’t ever present your boss with a problem without also putting forth at least one possible solution.”

#3

You can’t be true to someone else if you’re not true to yourself.

Me, to me, when my first marriage had collapsed after 8 years of me trying to please her and be what I thought she wanted.

#4

Don’t weep for the stupid, you’ll be crying all day – Alexander Anderson, Hellsing Abriged

#5

My mom’s best advice: “Don’t be stupid.” Usually issued immediately after I did something stupid.

#6

Unless they pay your bills, their opinion don’t count- me

#7

Never argue with an idiot – they will only drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

#8

“As much fun as it may seem at the time, don’t *ever* head-bang.”
Advice given to my younger self by me now, many years later and with serious neck pain and cluster headache issues.

#9

The keys to happiness are low expectations and a short term memory.
– My dear friend Garret (still miss you G.)
Said in jest, yet totally accurate.

#10

You can’t control how people act. You can only control how you react to people.

#11

Some of the best advice I ever received I got right here on Bored Panda.

“A year from now, you’ll wish you started a year ago.”

#12

“You are responsible for your happiness.”
My high school principal at the graduation ceremony said this. It’s stuck with me since, especially as I remember it during my harder times. The world may not be a kind place, I just need to keep a smile in spite of it.

#13

Some years ago, I spoke with a homeless gentleman who had come to the food bank I was volunteering at. He said two things that have stuck with me to this day.

The first being “The average person is just one, to two paychecks away from being homeless.”

The second one being: “It is the curse of man that given enough time, the oppressed, will in turn, become the oppressors.”

#14

Walking with my husband complaining about the neighbors wish this would happen or that..HE says…””why not wish for them to be a better person?””

#15

It’s early morning, Valentine’s Day. I was just finished cooking breakfast for myself and my BF whom I was expecting so that we could do our Valentine’s Day meal together before we had to leave for work
He shows up but doesn’t come in. Okay…what’s up BF? He looks at his feet and proceeds to dump me, on Valentine’s Day. He left. I’m stunned to say the least, I forget about the food I just cooked and I leave for work. Boss shows up. She looks at me asks what’s wrong. I tell her what happened and that’s when I just bawled. She comforts me enough so that I’m not a sniveling mess. I work my shift. Just as I’m about to walk out, Boss says, Hold on I want to talk to you 1st. She hands me some $$ says, “here’s an advance (pay) and here’s an extra $50. I want you to go down to the florist and buy yourself some long stem roses and find a card, write something Beautiful and nice to yourself and forget about that loser! From this point on, in life and report back to me in the morning”
So I promise I will and I say thank you and I proceed to the florist. Bought a dozen long stem roses and a nice card and then I walked to my bestie’s apartment. My bestie didn’t see at first because she was in the bathroom doing hair and make-up. But when she came into her front room, “OH HONEY! Who bought you these?” I replied, “I dunno, they didn’t sign the card” Bestie: “You’ve got a secret admirer?!”
Me (trying to keep straight face) “Um yeah I guess I do”. Next day, I go to work, Boss shows up “ok, so what did you do last night?” I hand her the unsigned card and told her what happened and how my bestie was chiming, “—-s got a secret admirer “… Thank You Renate (Boss)🥰
The moral of the story/advice is: Do for you. Don’t expect ppl in your life to do anything for you. Do for yourself. Because if you don’t for you, expect nobody else will neither.

#16

My mother “would you like it if someone did that to you? No? Well don’t do it to them”.

#17

Only floss the teeth you want to keep.

#18

Statistically, it can’t ALL be your fault.

#19

Never write an email, message, or anything—whether professional or personal—while in a furious or angry mindset and send it immediately.

Sleep on it, and the next morning you’ll almost certainly rewrite the text, responding with more clarity and removing the parts that aren’t really relevant to the message you truly want to convey.

#20

My grandmother born in the 20s as a response to some moralistic voices raised against women, once said: ‘Better to have many boyfriends than a serious illness. The boyfriends you can get rid of , if you want to… but an illness is much harder to shake off.

#21

If you want to know what people are really like, listen to how they act, not what they tell you. – My grandad.

#22

A little personal, but I’ll go with it. In my early-mid 20’s when norplant (implantable 5 year birth control device) came on the market I found an ad in the weekly that the local University wanted to train physicians on how to do the implant, upper arm, and needed volunteers.

Cool, I’m in! Zero problems. Even with removal. Don’t remember who did the removal, and I have a tiny scar. I’m kind of a strange person who keeps a few things as reminders. So I asked if I could keep one of the rods. Sure, so they put it in a sealed medical waste bag and I still have it.

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