What Did You Learn Too Late In Life?

Life is difficult to define, it could be what we take it to be. We came to the world probably unaware, life has taught us a lot of things, some of which we learned early or late in life. There’s always great life lessons attributed to our existence here on earth and that which we wished we never learned too late.

We were inspired by Quora life lessons to share the opinion of an author on what she considered “Lessons I learned after it was too late”.  The what did you learn late in life Quora version was shared on our blog with permission from the author.

1. Never lend money to your friends, you will lose the money and the friendship
2. Never pay to watch p_rn
3. Your friends could be friends with your enemies
4. Readers are leaders
5. Don’t spend everything today with the hope to earn more tomorrow
6. Never beg for love
7. No one identifies with a poor person
8. Stop thinking and start acting
9. Be kind to people including animals
10. Stay humble, nothing is worth bragging for
11. Your best dress is someone’s rag
12. Live to no one’s expectation, live according to your true self
13. Learn to say YES/NO and mean it
14. Own your mistakes, don’t blame others for it.
15. Work on yourself first
16. Today is hard, tomorrow will be harder, the day after tomorrow will be sunshine
17. When you stop learning you start dying
18. Never leave for tomorrow what you have to do today
19. Nothing you have is truly yours
20. Things you attract are in correlation with what dominates your thoughts
21. It is normal to make mistakes because you’re advancing
22. Experience isn’t the best teacher, learn from other peoples’ experiences
23. Never tell a loved one, you’re too busy
24. Do not keep issues with your partner over 24hrs.
25. Give man money and find out his true colours
26. Investigate before you invest
27. Don’t develop much love for free things
28. There’s a problem in the land where the king loves music too much
29. Do good and never expect one in return
30. Stop depending much on people, expectation kills
31. No one is always there for you except family
32. At the point of death, people don’t regret the things they’ve done but the things they couldn’t do.
33. Life is stormy, no one is free from it, those who thrive in it are people you call successful persons.
34. Talk less and think more
35. Never be afraid to think big
36. Get settled or never waste your time on love life
37. Never be friends again with someone who betrayed you.
38. Do not announce your success
39. Make your source of happiness a secret
40. Try not to offend people, some will spend their whole life trying to payback
41. Appreciate people for their efforts and kindness to you no matter how little it is.
42. What ever money cannot do, more money can do it.
43. Happiness is natural and comes from within, it is not money dependent.
44. Everyone is sick
45. Never leave small fishes in search for a bigger one
46. There’s a great difference between ownership and possession.
47. Helping others won’t make you unsuccessful
48. Every mistake is a lesson, take advantage of it
49. If you have disabilities, you’re special and can be extremely great
50. Exercise daily and eat healthily, let your food be your medicine and your medicine your food.
51. Blaming people (relatives) for not helping you is a bad habit
52. Help people secure a job where and when possible, never seek for sex in return.
53. Never give what you will regret losing ownership over it.
54. Never abandon your parents at old age, that’s when they need you the most.

Source: What did you learn late in life Quora

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