• You can’t change other people, and it’s rude to try.
• If you’re talking to someone you don’t know well, you may be talking to someone who knows way more about whatever you’re talking about than you do.
• Everyone likes somebody who gets to the point quickly.
• Bad moods will come and go your whole life, and trying to force them away makes them run deeper and last longer.
• Children are remarkably honest creatures until we teach them not to be.
• If everyone in the TV show you’re watching is good-looking, it’s not worth watching.
• Yelling always makes things worse.
• Whenever you’re worried about what others will think of you, you’re really just worried about what you’ll think of you.
• Every problem you have is your responsibility, regardless of who caused it.
• If you never doubt your beliefs, then you’re wrong a lot.
• Nobody has it all figured out.
• Every passing face on the street represents a story every bit as compelling and complicated as yours.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works alone can teach you everything you need to know about living with grace and happiness.
• When people are uncomfortable with the present moment, they fidget with their hands or their minds. Watch and see.
• Those who complain the most, accomplish the least.
• Putting something off makes it instantly harder and scarier.
• A person who is unafraid to present a candid version of herself to the world is as rare as diamonds.
• If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe, there is probably a better course of action.
• The greatest innovation in the history of humankind is language.
• Blame is the favorite pastime of those who dislike responsibility.
• Everyone you meet is better than you at something.
• Knowledge is belief, nothing more.
• What makes human beings different from animals is that animals can be themselves with ease.
• Whoever you are, you will die. To know and understand that means you are alive.
• High quality is worth any quantity, in possessions, friends and experiences.
• The world would be a better place if everyone read National Geographic.
• If you aren’t happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship.
• Even if it costs no money, nothing is free if it takes time.
• “Gut feeling” is not just a euphemism. Tension in the abdomen speaks volumes about how you truly feel about something, beyond all arguments and rationales.
• Everyone thinks they’re an above average driver.
• By default, people think far too much.
• If anything is worth splurging on, it’s a high-quality mattress. You’ll spend a third of your life using it.
• There is nothing worse than having no friends.
• Words are immensely powerful. One cruel remark can wound someone for life.
• It’s easy to make someone’s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.
• It is worth re-trying foods that you didn’t like at first.
• Problems, when they arise, are rarely as painful as the experience of fearing them.
• Nothing — ever — happens exactly like you pictured it.
• North Americans are generally terrible at accepting compliments and offers of help.
• There are not enough women in positions of power. The world has suffered from this deficit for a long time.
• Anyone can be calmed in an instant by looking at the ocean or the stars.
• Life is a solo trip, but you’ll have lots of visitors. Some of them are long-term, most aren’t.
• The fewer possessions you have, the more they do for you.
• Einstein was wiser than he was intelligent, and he was a genius.
• Wishing things were different is a great way to torture yourself.
• The ability to be happy is nothing other than the ability to come to terms with how things change.
• Killing time is an atrocity. It’s priceless, and it never grows back.

-Thought Catalog