Written  by a person who has lived nearly 100 years
to celebrate growing wiser !

2. When in doubt, follow your gut instinct and take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone that just puts poison in your body.

4. Your work won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and
    parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.

8. It’s OK to get angry with God. God can take it.

9. Invest for retirement starting with your first pay-check.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present and future.

12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their
     journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God
     never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the body mind and spirit.

17. Let go of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn’t kill you REALLY does make you stronger.

19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is
     up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no
for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets and expensive crockery, wear the fancy lingerie.
      Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
 
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ‘In five years, will
     this matter?’

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did
      or didn’t do.

35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s,we’d
      grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a “gift.”

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