Theme By: Destroyer / Sleepless

This advice is the best I’ve ever heard.

aurevoirrr:

chelseammkay:

“Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they’ll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They’re your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you’ll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair or by the time you’re 40 it will look 85.”

I love this woman for writing this.

Posted: Tue September 8th, 2009 at 8:38pm
Originally posted by femmedelaforet.
Notes: 50
  1. mesanonymous reblogged this from eveningmimi and added:
    Advice in its simplicity.
  2. eveningmimi reblogged this from amentalmindfuck
  3. midnightssun reblogged this from saywhaaaaat
  4. tinrulestheworld reblogged this from amentalmindfuck
  5. amentalmindfuck reblogged this from femmedelaforet
  6. theashleymonster reblogged this from femmedelaforet
  7. radicaldinosaur reblogged this from mastodonstorm
  8. mastodonstorm reblogged this from ofmiceandmen and added:
    true. But while he narrated that video, he did not write the original text.
  9. ofmiceandmen reblogged this from mastodonstorm and added:
    Baz Luhrmann is a guy. He directed movies such as Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge!. Just so ya know.
  10. hecknoemily reblogged this from mastodonstorm
  11. chmns reblogged this from 113502952
  12. 113502952 reblogged this from femmedelaforet
  13. sicsempertyranniss reblogged this from bodyandwords and added:
    I posted this before.. it’s the sunscreen song.. look it up.
  14. femmedelaforet posted this