Monday smile: Life’s realities

You can’t change other people and it’s rude to try.

It is a hundred times more difficult to burn calories than to refrain from consuming them in the first place.

The cheapest and most expensive models are usually both bad deals.

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.

Whenever you’re worried about what others will think of you, you’re really just worried about what you’ll think of you.

If you never doubt your beliefs, then you’re wrong a lot.

Whenever you hate something, it hates you back: people, situations and inanimate objects alike.

People embellish everything, as a rule.

Putting something off makes it instantly harder and scarier.

If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe, there is probably a better course of action.

Almost every cliché contains a truth so profound that people have been compelled to repeat it until it makes you roll your eyes. But the wisdom is still in there.

 Kids will usually understand exactly what you mean if you keep it to one or two short sentences.

Stuff that’s on sale usually has an annoying downside.

Casual swearing makes people sound dumb.

Most of what children learn from their parents isn’t taught on purpose.