I have adopted two of my dear Mum's sayings into my everday life and try my best to live by them every day:
"You attract more bees with honey than you do with vinegar."
and
"If you've got nothing good to say, then say nothing at all."
I'm a firm believer in "kindness." And that goes for being kind to myself, too. I think we're sometimes too overly judgmental of others and ourselves. We need to be kind to others and ourselves. Life is way too fleetingly brief to get bogged down in being bitter and twisted, mean and spiteful.