Living Well

"To be content with your life you must learn that the happiest moments are those that are shared. I feel that way about life. I don't think I realized this as much when I was a teen."
Tony (mentor)

"Do everything you can to keep your health because no amount of money will bring it back. I would suggest that they set goals for themselves so they know where they are going. I think they should love change because change is the one constant that we have. Never stop learning. There is so much to learn and one never knows in all."
Colin (mentor)

"I enjoy people, observe their moods and see what makes them tick to learn how to approach them. Forgiving is the best thing in this life..if you don't forgive you will never be happy with yourself...live the way God meant you to live and be as true to your friends, relatives, husband and on that order. Be truthful and do the best you know how down here on this earth because it is a hard world to battle with. Sometimes life is not fair but we have to accept that at times. Live clean. So you can feel proud of yourself, proud of your family."
Doris (mentor)

"The only way to live is to be truthful and honest and respectful..and to be happy and enjoy other people"
Lena (mentor)

"I used to be somebody that I didn't want to be. I would do something that I didn't want to do so I wouldn't be left out. I wanted to fit in. Now I like to be left out of crowds. I thought about a new life for myself because I'd looked at the people I was hanging out with, and trying to see what kind of future they were going to have and I saw that they just wanted to do drugs and be lazy and not care about their futures and not be very successful in their life. I didn't want to see myself end up like that..."
Chris (mentee)

"Be yourself, and get along with people the best that you can.The good life is being happy, doing what you want to do without attachments or being tied down."
Rose (mentor)

(Living well means:)"Mind my own business. Help people. I used to help these folks that had big families..back in thrashing days. In the country it was a little different. Now days if you do something you expect pay for it. Way back in the early 1900's you helped someone: you were neighbors. If he needed help you helped him. It wasn't money first."
Nina (mentor)

"I think the most important thing in life is to live life to the fullest. Don't be one of those people who look back and regret passing up an opportunity. To me living well means that you enjoy the life you live and live it to the fullest. I would describe the good life as hanging out with my friends and having fun."
Erin (mentor)

"The important thing is to be able to take a look back at your life, and be reasonable satisfied with what you have accomplished"
Bill (mentor)

"I think that living well means being happy and healthy and having the same for the people I love...Living healthy and happy with people you love around you is the best you can expect out of life."
Devon (mentee)

"I have a very good life doing the best I can ...what ever I do (one old fellow told me when I was a kid: " 'if your gonna be a ditch digger, be a good ditch digger if your gonna be a college professor be a good college professor'".
Fred (mentor)

"Once you leave trash don't go back to it. Treat everyone equal. Always try to be strong and stand up for who you are. Never trust anyone you don't know too well. Be your best at everything you try to do. Always try to accomplish your goals."
Monica (mentee)

"My personal thought is that kids now never do what has to be done before having fun. Lots of kids don't have goals and goals are very important to have, in my opinion. They kind of give you something to look forward to in life. And most of us don't realize that what we are doing is bad until we get older and it falls down on us. Living well to me means to have a roof over your head, food in your belly and good friends and people who love you and to have fun and money to spend and to be a good person."
Shannon (mentee)

"Living well means being healthy and trustworthy."
Mike (mentee)

"In my opinion, living well is living comfortable and happy. The "good life" to me means to live happy and enjoy life."
Dan (mentee)

"Hard times make you appreciate the simple things. Problems will fade. The hard times can't last. Eventually we will all understand that it's not that bad. Be happy. If life deals you a slump, push past it. You need high spirits or you won't survive (you won't want to anyway). We all control our own happiness-remember that."
Nik (mentee)

"Living well means fulfilling all of my life questions. The "good life" to me means keeping busy with stuff that I would like to do."
Brian (mentee)

"Living in a way that would bring you and those around you happy times."
Sara (mentee)

"Take care of business even when it isn't easy or fun and eventually good things will come back to you. If you are just about to take the easy way out remember that you wouldn't be as far as you are now if you gave up last time it got rough. Life is a college and we are all freshmen."
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"I have learned to value life for what it is, life is a great thing, don't take it for granted."
Brian (mentee)

"Everything comes hard in life and you have to be careful what you do and what you say. Listen to your parents they have been around a lot longer than you and they know what they are doing. They love you and care for you. Don't listen to every 'shmo' on the block."
Helen (mentor)