The Best Advice You Ever Received.

[BiscuitTrouser]

Follow these philosophies. Always. Learn and encourage learning no matter the cost of shedding ignorance. Always try and add add happiness to peoples lives. Always. Everyone deserves to feel happy and wanted and like people care about them. So do something nice for another person whenever you get the chance.

 

[The Bread is Delicious]

I can think of a number of things that are good advice, but that have been specifically stated to me... Probably, "it is easier to beg for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission." It has come in handy so many times.

 

[Wolf In A Bear Suit]

"You can dance if you want to, you can leave your friends behind, cos your friends don't dance and if they don't dance well they're no friends of mine" Only advice you'll ever need, trust me. I've danced out of many a crisis

 

[Nannernade]

The greatest advice ever... also a contender for the scariest.

It seems Andrew Zimmeran has been trying to undo that message for quite some time now.

"If it looks good, eat it!"

 

[Snydeclyde]

'It's not easy, if it was everyone would do it'
My college teacher told me that when i was being shit, and i guess it stuck with me as it applies to other things as well.

Also a couple of people have told me 'Don't get married while your still young, dumb and full of cum' so i guess that must be good advice, i'll heed it all the same.

 

[Solstrana91]

"Stop crying. Get up and try again."

I still miss you buddy :/

 

[vxicepickxv]

"As long as you know you don't know what you're doing, and you try to improve on it, you'll still doing better than just about everyone else."


I wish that wasn't good advice.

 

[Ljs1121]

The best advice I've ever heard would be a quote from Mr. Stephen Colbert.

"Don?t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don?t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. "Yes" is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes."

A few years ago, I was a heavy cynic who believed that nothing good could come out of anything. It was the worst time I've ever had in my life. I was constantly either depressed or angry and I don't recommend it to anyone.

As for advice personally given to me, it would probably be something my dad once told me.

"The day you're done learning is the day you're done."

That quote inspires me even to this day to want to understand the world around me and, if possible, apply it in a way that helps others.

 

[A.A.K]

Believe everything you hear. Just don't act on it without good reason.

I used to have a temper and would pick fights with people I thought were assholes/douchebags/worse people than me.
To be fair, I grew up around criminals and am pretty ethically flexible myself.

A lot of people might say "but criticism is good!" "that's BS advice!" "fuck off, I'll challenge whatever I want if I don't agree", but if you heard that some guy cut the ligaments out of someone's neck, stir fried and fed it to him - are you reeeaally going to argue with this guy anyway?

Plus, it's helped with a lot of things. Got my through high school. Formed my opinions outside high school through my own research, and didn't question shit all during school. Just took the notes, parroted it back to them, and left.
Basically: Your opinion is worthless, thereby irrelevant. Just get your work done and fuck off.


...There's a few other stellar pieces of advice I can think of...but I smell of cut grass, fig trees and dog shit. So I'm going to shower.

 

[username sucks]

"live and let live." - it's a damn shame most people prefer conflict over this.

Agree completely. The world would be so much better if everyone would stop getting angry over things that don't harm anyone. Words to live by, they are.

 

[Camaranth]

From my grandpa
"Always remember to KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid."

And from numerous people all over the world

"Keep going, mate. She'll be right in the end."

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.

Fall down seven times get up eight.

"Who is the better hero? The one who succeeded the first time or the one who got knocked down and stood up again?"

It's all basically the same thing but it is the best advice and encouragement you can get.

 

[an annoyed writer]

As a child I rarely got any good life advice beyond common sense, and even then most of the stuff was kinda counter-intuitive. It hurt more than helped. My parents... as much as I love them, they give the worst advice. I'm not unlike the OP, but instead of being encouraged to be myself my parents instead encouraged me to keep the mask on. Stay safe at all costs. Pursue the almighty dollar. Be a miserable old bastard with nothing to live for. Such words leave scars. Such scars don't heal easily. Even now as I write this I can't help but break down. At least I remember how to cry.

No, I'm still looking for the best advice for my life. Maybe I'll share it if I find it.

 

[elvor0]

"Always be nice to people who serve you food". Bruce Willis, I have no idea what film it was from, or even what it was about, and only that one scene, but it was just after beating someone senseless for being out of order to a waitress.

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

"Don't piss into the wind."

Especially not upwards.

 

[ParanoidEngineer]

Life is for living, so live it goddamnit.

And I've been happy ever since, my granddad's dying of cancer right now and I'm not as sad as I could be. It's horrible, but I'm smiling.

 

[disgruntledgamer]

"Don't sleep with that chick"

 

[AngloDoom]

You put the lime in the coconut and drink 'em both up. Made sense at the time, makes sense to this day.

OT: "If you do that, everyone will think you're gay."
This piece of advise made me ever more adamant to dress how I wanted to, do what I want, and make the kind of jokes I do to this day, because the only people who's approval I won't win are idiots. As a result, I have friends in abundance, I am described by many as a 'gentleman', I've punched above my weight a few times when it comes to sexual partners, and I've settled on a career-choice I would never have thought of if I wasn't so comfortable in my sexuality.

 

[Angie7F]

being bilingual is only a tool What matters is what you can do with that tool.

 

[Ytomyth]

"Don't worry, be happy."

No, there's no price for guessing right. Yes, this is for everything.

 

[RevRaptor]

Adapt and overcome.

Stop, think, act.

Pretty simple stuff but its amazing how many people get that wrong.

Simply means - Don't get mad, don't get flustered. Use your head, analyse your situation and act accordingly, If it ain't working change tactics. Act quickly but don't rush, going too fast makes you make mistakes and that makes you slower. These 2 bits of advice have helped me save lives, so they defiantly count as the best advice I have ever revived.

Also 'The truth is a triple edged sword. Your side, their side and the truth'