30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget

In fact, it is impossible to find completely universal words of wisdom even for two different people, because each of us perceives advice in completely different ways. Yes, even if we take such a universal thing as the Ten Commandments of Christianity, which actually contain a direct recommendation, for example: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor!" Hey, but after all, each of us probably has an overly entitled neighbor and, perhaps, many of us have violated this commandment... Therefore, you should not take any advice read here as a direct guide to action.

For some reason, some people believe that only a person with exceptional life experience like that which comes with old age can give wise advice. "This opinion comes from prehistoric times, when literally the survival of the human race was sometimes at stake," says Vladimir Nemertsalov, a teacher and school principal from Odessa, Ukraine, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment on this post. "When any person who lived to a certain, for example, old age, by default had tremendous experience of survival, and whose opinion from this angle was worth listening to. But now the situation is fundamentally changing."

"Firstly, humanity has not faced issues of survival for a long time, and secondly, the life experience that was relevant a couple of decades ago, today, may turn out to be not only useless - even sometimes harmful. Yes, in the modern world, many young people can have truly priceless skills and experiences that some older people never even dreamed of. No offense, but sometimes it happens just like that," Vladimir supposes.

What can I say, sometimes inspiration comes not only from words, but simply from actions - and often not even from people. For example, according to a medieval legend, after some kind of heavy defeat in his youth, the Asian commander Tamerlane saw how an ant stubbornly tried to crawl onto a flower stem, falling, getting up - and crawling again. Over and over... Well, the great conqueror of the Middle Ages is probably not the best role model, but the legend itself, you see, is incredibly instructive and beautiful.

Interestingly, from a linguistic point of view, wise words often become simple examples of opposition and inversion. For example, "prepare your child for the road, not the road for your child" or maybe "enjoy art in yourself, not yourself in art." It works flawlessly, by the way, so here's another wise piece of advice, this time directly from me: comment the selection, don't select the comments! But seriously, any words that you have heard from others that have changed your life for the better should actually be considered wise. So please let us know these words too, and maybe they will come in handy to someone, who knows?