RLS 12 LIFE RULES

 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - 12 RULES TO LIVE BY

• Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

• Make the best of circumstances. No one has everything and everyone has something of sorrow.

• Don’t take yourself too seriously.

• Don’t let criticism worry you. You can’t please everybody.

• Don’t let your neighbors set your standards; be yourself.

• Do things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt.

• Don’t borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than actual ones.

• Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish enmities and grudges. Avoid people who make you unhappy.

• Have many interests. If you can’t travel, read about places.

• Don’t hold post-mortems or spend time brooding over sorrows and mistakes.

• Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.

• Keep busy at something. A very busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Can’t quite recall but someone was banging on about Robert Louis’ 12 rules for life and so I thought I would check them out. Stevenson one of the first authors I read on my own and enjoyed as a callow youth . . . . turns out they’re pretty good!

I will add a thought of my own and not sure where I got this thought from but doubt it is original! True mind you . . . . 

                “   If being hard on yourself worked 

Then surely you’d have been fine by now!

Stop it!    "