{"id":48,"date":"2009-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2010-11-30T20:08:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T20:08:57","slug":"ive-learned-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/ive-learned-that\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve learned that&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don&#8217;t care back<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that it&#8217;s not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that you can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you&#8217;d better know something.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that you shouldn&#8217;t compare yourself to the best others can do, but to the best you can do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that it&#8217;s not what happens to people that&#8217;s important. It&#8217;s what they do about it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that no matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that it&#8217;s taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that it&#8217;s a lot easier to react than it is to think.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that you can keep going long after you think you can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that either you control your attitude or it controls you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place. (Amen to that!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that learning to forgive takes practice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that there are people who love you dearly, but just don&#8217;t know how to show it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that money is a lousy way of keeping score.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you&#8217;re down will be the ones to help you get back up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that I&#8217;m getting more and more like my grandma, and I&#8217;m kinda happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that sometimes when I&#8217;m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn&#8217;t give me the right to be cruel.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that just because someone doesn&#8217;t love you the way you want them to doesn&#8217;t mean they don&#8217;t love you with all they have.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you&#8217;ve had and what you&#8217;ve learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you&#8217;ve celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that you should never tell a child her dreams are unlikely or outlandish. Few things are more humiliating, and what a tragedy it would be if she believed it<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that your family won&#8217;t always be there for you. It may seem funny, but people you aren&#8217;t related to can take care of you and love you and teach you to trust people again. Families aren&#8217;t biological.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that no matter how good a friend someone is, they&#8217;re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that it isn&#8217;t always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn&#8217;t stop for your grief.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that sometimes when my friends fight, I&#8217;m forced to choose sides even when I don&#8217;t want to.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that just because two people argue, it doesn&#8217;t mean they don&#8217;t love each other. 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It could change your life forever.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that the clothes I like best are the ones with the most holes in them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that no matter how you try to protect your children, they will eventually get hurt and you will hurt in the process.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that there are many ways of falling and staying in love.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that no matter the consequences, those who are honest with themselves, get farther in life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that many things can be powered by the mind, the trick is self-control.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that no matter how many friends you have, if you are their pillar, you will feel lonely and lost at the times you need them most.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don&#8217;t even know you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that writing, as well as talking, can ease emotional pains.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that the paradigm we live in is not all that is offered to us.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that although the word &#8220;love&#8221; can have many different meaning, it loses value when overly used.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that it&#8217;s hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting people&#8217;s feelings and standing up for what you believe.<\/p>\n<p>Author Unk.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve learned that you cannot make someone love you. 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