The best advice I ever received

The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person.  It is the skill, humor, and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace. 

  ~  Audrey Sutherland

1. Be a non conformist. ~ Uncle Cepeda
2. Always wear clean underwear ‘cause you never know who might see them. ~ Gram
3. Take a chance on love ~Angela
4. Turn the other cheek sometimes refers to your butt cheeks in the form of walking away. ~ Unknown
5. No one gives you brownie points in life for pushing yourself over the edge. ~ Aunt Darlene
6. Do the right thing even when no one is looking. ~ Hallmark?
7. If you do not take a stand for something, them you will fall for anything. ~ Star Jones – at least that is who I have heard say it.
8. What other people think of you is none of your business. ~ L. Compton
9. Leave the gun, take the cannoli. ~ The Godfather
10. There is nothing wrong with average. ~ My Mother
11. God don’t like ugly but he ain’t that crazy about pretty either. ~ My Mother
12. One monkey don’t stop the show. ~ D. Jones
13. If you can’t say something nice, then don’t say anything at all. In other words practice being quiet. ~ My Mother
14.  If nothing else, be graceful. ~ unknown
15.  When everything else fails, run. ~ Life experience