HOW TO CONTROL YOURSELF

Here are 18 random rules of life worth posting on your mirror or, better yet, using as dinner-time discussion starters:

* Find the lesson in every failure, and you’ll never fail.

* The likelihood that you’re right is not increased by the intensity of your conviction.

* Real friends help you feel worthy and make you want to be better.

* When you’re in a hole, stop digging.

* Don’t confuse fun with fulfillment or pleasure with happiness.

* Refusing to let go of a grudge is refusing to use the key that will set you free.

* Hating hurts you more than the person you hate.

* Counting on luck is counting on random chance; your odds are much better when you plan and work.

* It’s better to be kind than clever.

* Don’t underestimate the power of persistence.

* The easy way is rarely the best way.

* It’s much easier to burst someone else’s bubble than to blow up your own.

* You can’t avoid pain, but you can avoid suffering.

* Self-pity is a losing strategy; it repels others and weakens you.

* Shortcuts usually produce short success.

* Control your attitude or it will control you.

* It’s more important to be significant than successful.

* The world is waiting for you to heal it.