SOME REMINDERS: "What have I learned in life?"

I re-read this and wanted to share it again with the people I care about. Read it carefully because it's powerful stuff.

"What have I learned in life? I'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. 
• no matter how much I care, some people just don't care back. 
• it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it. 
• it's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts. 
• you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that, you'd better know something. 
• you shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do. 
• you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life. 
• it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be. 
• you can keep going long after you can't. 
• we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel. 
• either you control your attitude or it controls you. 
• 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. 
• heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences. 
• money is a lousy way of keeping score." 

Powerful stuff and worth remembering during this crazy and challenging period in this country and in a world where we get things wrong and screw up but hopefully continue to learn, to grow and develop and above all to try and make a real difference for those who need us most.
Keep the faith!
Chris