Advice Archive

“Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep. Well, nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape and there’s no excuse, so just suck it up and be nice.” – Ani DiFranco ‘Pixie’

“You’re not always going to be number one you know. And sometimes overachievers like you have to get past their own egos and learn how to accept disappointment.” – 90210

“Things said or sung take on different meanings at different times in different people’s lives. What means nothing to you could at this point in another’s life, mean everything to them. So keeping that in mind, who are any of us to be able to say what means something and what doesn’t? What is important [...]

“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“There are always going to be the people who will like you for the wrong reasons.  Your job is to find the people who like you for what you are.” – Susan Sarandon

“The first rule of life is: Cherish your friends and your family as if your life depended on it. . .  because it does.” – Ann Richards

“Honey, someday when you’re a little older you will be introduced to something that is extremely seductive but fickle. A fair-weather friend who seems benign but packs a wallop like a donkey kick, and that is the Long Island iced tea. The Long Island iced tea makes you do thing that you normally wouldn’t do, [...]

“No matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.”

“That’s the risk you have to take if you change: that people you’ve been friends with won’t like the new you…but other people who do will come along.” – Lisa Alther

“You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength and say, ‘I’m proud of who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.’” – Mariah Carey