Little reminders and suggestions on how to live a happy and rewarding life

• Watch a sunrise at least once a year.
• Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
• Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day.
• Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade.
• Hug children after you discipline them.
• Give to charity all the clothes you haven't worn during the past three years.
• Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come ninety percent of all your happiness or misery.
• Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.
• Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
• Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
• Skip one meal a week and give what you would have spent to a street person.
• Strive for excellence, not perfection.
• Take time to smell the roses.
• Never cut what can be untied.
• Lie on your back and look at the stars.
• Leave everything a little better than you found it.
• Remember that a successful marriage depends on two things:(1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.
• Street musicians are a treasure. Stop for a moment and listen; then leave a small donation.
• Focus on making things better, not bigger.
• Select a doctor your own age so that you can grow old together.
• Tape record your parent's laughter.
• Send your loved one flowers. Think of a reason later.
• Never admit at work that you're tired, angry, or bored.
• Cherish your children for what they are, not for what you'd like them to be.
• Don't postpone joy.

From "Life's Little Instruction Book" by H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Special thanks to Carlos Bichai for this submission.