What is the best advice your mother ever gave you?

Do you feel it has benefited you as an adult?I used to joke that the best advice my mother ever gave me was to never do my deep-fat frying in the nude. But joking aside, I think the very best advice I ever got from anyone, mother included, was simply that you cannot change other people, you can only change your REACTION to other people. This advice is put to use by me on an almost daily basis, as I encounter one situation after another wherein I would do something completely different or choose a radically different option than what I see others take. What is the best advice you were ever given and in what ways has it added to your success in life? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2mFfOYj