What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Giovanna Fletcher said elsewhere, not written here
Block out the noise and trust your gut.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 February 2024 source ↗

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Clive James Critic, essayist, poet and broadcaster
I think I actually wrote it in one of my poems is that my decline has been the making of me - I forget how I put it. Yeah, simply more reflective. I haven't got the excuse of moving forward just on impulse anymore, which I did, I think, for a long, long time.
Recorded Philip Williams, 7.30, ABC, ABC News, 20 August 2015 source ↗
Ronnie O'Sullivan English snooker player
Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗

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