It’s possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.

To love myself unconditionally.

Go slow, observe, choose the simpliest.

Only offer free help when you expect nothing in return. Help is viewed as an entitlement by some who are receiving it.

Not to take it all so seriously, though I can't always live up to that.

My old mum, sadly gone now, used to say ' jimmy, if you keep punching the bastards have got to fall down in the end' she was quite a character and more than capable of putting this pearl of wisdom into action literally but she meant 'keep at it son. be in it for the long game'

Never vote republican

No matter how much money you make - live poor.

• minimalism

I learned it at 21, the hard way... the way you remember your most valuable lessons.... Respect is EARNED not DEMANDED..

It ends.

Ask yourself every night as you prepare to sleep "how am I living".

A few people have said it already but... I can only control myself, my actions and my thoughts. I can't control anyone or anything else. When a situation arises, we choose, mostly subconciously, how to react... even if we don't want to admit it... Most people seem to blame how they choose to feel on something or someone else but it is empowering and humbling to realize that we do have control over how we choose to look at a situation and how we choose to feel and react.

Life is simple, yet also complicated. I think that life is a paradox. For the most part I believe in balance. good and bad. positive and negative. day and night. love and fear.

Never underestimate the sheer scale of stupidity that can come even from the best minds.

Slow up in making decisions....THINK....try and evaluate the future consequences of a decision.

i can't really say i have just one. ive learned that the only one you can ever really trust is yourself, ive learned that no matter what other people think, if you are true to yourself, you can be happy, ive learned that it is not always wise to let others know when you are in pain, ive learned that what i feel now may or may not last, so it is good to keep an open mind, ive learned that animals are much easier to get along with than people...probably a bunch more but thats enough for now.

It's a lesson I'm still trying to learn. My therapist keeps telling me that women are crazy and don't trust them. Seems I'll never learn.

I am responsible, in some way, for everything that happens to me, in my life. Everything is a decision. Not making a decision is also a decision. Never blame anyone but myself, when the decisions are wrong. If I am wrong, I have to own It. It is a very freeing and empowering way to live.

Be yourself, regardless of societal expectations.

If anything I do for my own good and it hurts another person, I do not do it. No gain at others expense, not even in the corporate world.

Love, kindness, generosity, gratitude, strength, compassion, empathy and commitment.

The lessons of trust. It is tempting to just say don’t trust anyone, but that would be one too many.

We are all one photon; all energy is connected, time and space are an illusion.
Therefore, anything I think about someone else is really thinking it about me. That poor chicken suffering in a factory farm is part of the same energy that makes me.

As Jesus put it, love others as you love yourself. Or whatever you do for the least person, you also do it for me.
Jesus might not have existed, but much of what he was reported saying is cool.

Avoid alcohol.

Not to copy the movie Wargames, but futility...that there comes a time you should just give up and stop wasting your time.