The question
What lesson has mattered most in your life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Stay out of other people’s business.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
That things change.
Your lowest moment is temporary.
Follow your dream and never give up, because it’s not over until the fat lady sings. Ride the adventure!
If somebody doesn’t want to understand or see you that’s on them. You don’t have to carry that with you.
Dying too young, and spiders.
People who aren’t kind enough.
Like you’ve got no other thought in your head.
Kind, fun and professional.
We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
A hand-painted beaded dress from New York. It weighs about 16lb and cost me £4,000, 30 years ago.
Belinda Carlisle, Graydon Carter, Jane Asher, Tuppence Middleton, Harlan Coben, George H. W. Bush
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