As the year 2010 approaches a much anticipated and welcome close, I have to reflect back on the things that I have learnt, either through books, friends, family, movies, or even by myself, through experience. Some of them are simple quotes that you have heard repeatedly over time, some you might not have heard before, but regardless, each has given cause to think and deeply reflect through the year 2010.
I have learnt that......
1.) ...2+2=5, but only if you believe it, and your lecturer doesn’t see it.
2.) ...It is better to lose an argument than to lose a friend.
3.) ...An eye for an eye only ends up making everyone blind.
4.) ...Friends should be there to take your side when you are wrong, because random person can stand for you when you are right.
5.) ...Failure isn’t when you fall down; it is when you stubbornly refuse to get right back up.
6.) ...When you know what’s right, but still don’t do it, that’s a sin.
7.) ...You should never look down on someone except you are helping them up.
8.) ...If you try real hard, you can keep your head when others about you lose theirs.
9.) ...Love comes to those who believe.
10.) ...Taking responsibility is a sign of maturity.
11.) ...When you accept who you are, you are superior to those who don’t accept you.
12.) ...Absence does not make the heart grow fonder; it drills a hole in it.
13.) ...It takes a long time to build up trust, and a few minutes to break it.
14.) ...Nothing lasts forever.
15.) ...Just when you are about to make both ends meet, someone comes along and moves the ends.
16.) ...It takes two to tango, but if you dance alone, no one will step on your toes.
17.) ...Open hatred can be hidden love.
18.) ...There is something interesting about someone’s unhappiness, and something dull about their happiness.
19.) ...The life you think is private is the subject of analysis, criticism, commendation or condemnation.
20.) ...The more you try to ignore someone, the more you become aware of the person.
21.) ...There is nothing compared to one’s first love.
22.) ...Education is one thing, experience is another.
23.) ...There is a difference between growing old, and growing up.
24.) ...You should not be ashamed or scared of making a mistake, looking foolish, being rejected, or being hurt.
25.) ...If you don’t hear opportunity knocking, find another door.
26.) ...If your lecturer tells you to stop talking or you will fail his course, he means it, seriously.
27.) ...Just because someone is flirting with you incessantly doesn’t mean he or she likes you.
28.) ...Everybody doesn’t have to like me, I don’t like everybody.
29.) ...I am responsible for the outcome of my day.
30.) ...Forgiveness means letting go of a hurtful situation and moving on with my own happiness.
31.) ...When it comes down to it, we all just want to be loved.
32.) ...Survival only teaches one thing—survive or go under.
33.) ...Love is forgiving someone over and over again and again
34.) ...Lies, when big enough and regularly repeated would eventually become the truth.
35.) ...If you laugh a lot, when you get older, your wrinkles will be in the right places.
36.) ...Every day is a new beginning, another chance to laugh, to lose, and to live your life to the fullest. Another chance at life.
37.) ...No matter how much you have learnt from the past, you will still make mistakes in the future.
38.) ...Some people are always talking just because they like to hear the sound of their own voice.
39.) ...Little things are special things.
40.) ...Love is asking about someone’s day and truly caring about the answer.
41.) ...He who has injured me is either weaker or stronger than me, if weaker I should spare him, if stronger, I should spare myself.
42.) ...A successful man is one who can lay a foundation with bricks that have been thrown at him.
43.) ...Sometimes, you know you are making a wrong decision, but you make it anyway.
44.) ...When you lose someone, it stays with you, reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.
45.) ...Life has a mind of its own.
46.) ...The assumption that as we get older, we will get wiser is not true.
47.) ...When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
48.) ...Flattery is alright, as long as you don’t inhale.
49.) ...There is no formula for success, but there is a formula for failure – trying to please everybody.
50.) ...If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you may as well laugh about it now!
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