8. "You can't help how you feel, you can only help how you treat people."

My friend's mother explains this as some days are just bad days. Attitudes are contagious, and while we can't always control what side of the bed we get up on, we constantly have an effect on our friends' and family's moods.

7. "Don't cheat your body."

This is from father's gym teacher, Mr. Boku-Henderson. You have only got one body, treat it kindly.

6. "You deserve forgiveness."

My high school English teacher told me of this at a time I really needed to hear it and it's something I have to remind myself of on a regular basis. Everyone has done something or will do something at some point in their lives that makes it hard to look themselves in the mirror. The important thing to remember is that everyone makes mistakes, and no matter how big the mistake, you can't expect others to forgive you until you forgive yourself.

5. Not only that but "You're supposed to make mistakes."

One of my best friends tells me this every time I do something stupid. "There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college," she says. "It would be really really weird for you to make these mistakes as an adult, so might as well get it out of your system now."

4. "Just because one thing isn't going your way, doesn't mean everything else isn't going to fall apart."

It's really easy to breakdown when something major doesn't go your way, but it doesn't mean like everything else is going to fall apart. When something particularly un-wonderful happens, stay looking up because chances are there are a lot of other things to be happy about.

3. "Don't hate yourself for changing."

We all have friends from middle school who are now unrecognizable from the people we once knew. At one time or another, we've hated them a little bit for it. For leaving us, for making new friends, for changing. As we get older, we're able to reflect on how we might have caused old friends to feel the same way. I think that it is really unfair however to be upset with yourself with evolving into a more complete version of yourself. While nostalgia can make us miss friends from the past, change is inevitable so we might as well embrace it.

2. "Write it down, then put it away."

One night when I was feeling particularly distraught, I texted a friend that I was having trouble falling asleep because my mind was running amuck. Seconds later, she appeared in my room with a notebook. "Write everything you're worried about down, I'll be right back." A few minutes later, she reentered, took the notebook, and said, "Now I'm putting this in a different room. All of your problems are in here and not in your head, so now you can't worry about them until the morning, deal?" I think this will forever be the best thing anyone has ever done for me.

1. "Take one thing at a time."

This started off as just something my skating coach told me before I got on the ice before a big skating competition. Now, it's my mantra. Every time I get stressed out, I make a list. The highest priorities are at the top of the list, and I don't allow myself to think about the next thing on the list until I have completed the task before it. This has helped me to resolve to live in the moment. We have to take each thing one at a time without looking behind us or with fear of the future.