Found this in a friend's journal. I'm not sure where he got it from, but I felt it needed sharing.
Read carefully:
MANUAL TO LIFE
You weren't provided with an manual to life at the moment of your birth. But if you received it, it would read as following:
1. You will receive a body. You can like it or not like it, but it is the only thing you are guaranteed to control till the end of your days.
2. You will study at the school called Life on Planet Earth. Every person and every event is your Ultimate Teacher.
3. There are no mistakes, just lessons. Failures are necessary parts of success. There are no victims, just students.
4. The lesson will be repeated in all the varieties of forms untill it is digested completely. If you don't digest the easy lessons they will become harder. When you digest that you will step over to the next lesson.
5. External problems are the exact reflection of your internal state. When you change your internal world, the external world will change for you. Pain is the method that the universe uses to get your attention.
6. You will understand that the lesson is learned when your behavior changes. Wisdom is achieved by practice. A little something is better than a lot of nothing.
7. There is no place better than "here". "There" is no better than "here". When your "there" becomes "here" you will get another "there" that will again seem better than "here".
8. Others are merely your reflection. You can't love or hate that of the others of it does not reflect your own qualities.
9. Life makes the frame, you paint the picture. If you don't assume the responsibility to paint, it will be painted by others.
10. You will get everything you want. You will subconciously and correctly choose how much energy to spend and which people to attract so that the only right way to know what you want is to look at what you have.
11. When deciding what's "right" and "wrong", moral is a bad advisor. Pick the best out of the possible.
12. All the answers are in you. You know more than what's written in the books. The only thing you have to do is look inside yourself, listen to yourself and trust yourself.
13. You will forget all of this.
14. You will remember this anytime you need to.