1. Assume that you are loved.
2. Assume that those who love you find some kind of value in you and the things you do.
3. Assume, however, that you don’t need to be valuable in order to be worthy of love.
4. Assume that there is no one out there keeping a tally of all of your failings, ready to throw it in your face when you’re either feeling too good or too awful about yourself.
5. Assume that if anyone actually is keeping a tally of all your failings, that act says more about them than it does about you.
6. Assume that you can’t make all of the people happy all of the time; maybe not even some of the people some of the time.
7. Assume that you will, over the course of your life, sometimes anger or disappoint the people you love.
8. Assume that when this happens, it isn’t the end of the world, even if that’s what it feels like.
9. Assume that there is never an end to learning, or growing, or discovering.
10. Assume that you will always find a way out, even when all the doors slam shut and everything feels impossible.
11. Assume that sometimes earnestness and optimism can trump irony and cynicism.
12. Assume that it’s possible to recapture the way you felt when you were young, how the perfect clockwork mechanism of the universe used to leave you breathless and giddy with wonder.
13. Assume that there will always be more stories to tell, or at the very least new ways of reinterpreting old fables.
14. Assume that nothing is permanent, that someday even the sun will disappear; remember that everything we see and touch and taste is made of stars that grew and pulsed and died long before this planet ever existed.
15. Assume that you are under some kind of obligation to make the world a better place.
The Belle Jar 
Great advice
love it 🙂
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Great assumptions 😉
I guess we all need these as a printed manual on how to live life. Very well put.
Congratulations on being on freshly pressed!
Very good assumptions indeed! I like assumption number 10. 🙂
Thank you for those. Very inspiring, and particularly helpful for me at this point in my life. x
I really loved these 15 assumptions & in my own point of view we are pretty able to convince ourselves with positive assumptions as long as we could generate negative ones & persuade our subconscious mind with. So why not to do right act & assume positively!
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Let’s live while we have life in our bodies family! Have a great week!
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I’m assuming this post is awesome.
Those are amazing thoughts for this dreary Monday. Thanks for posting them.
I love this! What a great way to start the day 🙂
Cheers,
Courtney
http://www.oneweektocrazy.com
That was really a great post, thank you!
Thanks so much! ❤
Awesome post! Assumptions definitely don’t have to always be negative : ).
Sometimes assuming the best is what gets you through the night 🙂
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Thank you!
How I loved this post.It is easy to assume bad but not so easy for me to assume good.I will carry this with me today.Thank you
Thank you! And agreed – it’s easy to assume the worst. Stay strong ❤
If I could only follow those assumptions…. Especially numero 6… 🙂 Much love!
Thank you, much love to you, too! I find 6 through 8 the hardest for me 🙂
I tend to look at everything in a cynical way, so thank you for reminding me that sometimes it’s better to be optimistic about life. You’ve made my day.
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let’s assume it’s as easy as this!
A timely reminder
Thanks ❤
Thank you 🙂
😉
Thank you for this post. It is heartwarming and true and just what I needed.
Thanks so much! I wrote it as a reminder to myself for when things get hard, and I’m touched by how many people see themselves in it too 🙂
Beautiful assumptions. xo
Thank you xo
Perfect bed time reading 🙂
Excellent! 😀
I’ll be honest, I was hoping these would be more debatable
I will take that as a compliment.
This is a worldview to aspire to, and a beautifully written one at that. And I love the thought that there are always more stories to tell. Thank you for this post,
I have to join all these others and express gratitude for this post. I appreciate the truths that you’ve shared, agree with them all, and found three just what I’ve been writing about for months. So, thanks.
Thank you! Three is a tough one, especially when you’re feeling down on yourself ❤
Indeed! Given that I just did that for a year, many of the lessons yielded in this post were what I was lead to. Thanks again!
I love the thought that there are more stories to tell, too. As a writer and an avid reader, it’s something that I constantly have to remind myself of.
I’m not exactly sure how I stumbled across your blog – but I’m going to ‘assume’ I was supposed to because it really hit home, especially #10. Thank you.
Thanks! ❤
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Thank you!
love your “assumes”, so now I am following your blog!
Awww thanks ❤
I love your post. It has common sense goodness, but the kind which most of us forget to follow most of the days. And it is just thepick me up I need on a tuesday morning when the week hasnt started great.
And just for that dose of pick me up, love and hugs to you.
I’m so glad that it helped give you a pick me up. Thanks for the love & hugs & the kind comment ❤
1. Assume that you are loved.
2. Assume that those who love you find some kind of value in you and the things you do.
These are the two I need right now. The two I have trouble believing, trouble remembering.
How nice to think we are loved by someone. How nice to think someone values what I do.
Thank you for the reminder. ❤
Someone, many someones, DO love you, even when you can’t see or feel it. And there is always someone who finds value in what you do, even if they don’t tell you this.
❤
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Food for thought indeed – and see how many apply to our particular craft…
Thank you!
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I like assumption number 9.
Thank you!
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Thanks ❤
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An aewsome post worth reading 🙂
Thank you! That’s so kind of you!
I was feeling low today..after reading this totally inspired 🙂 thanks
That’s so lovely! Thank you!
Great post!
Thanks!
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This is just too simple, superb and subtly peace-sparking not to reblog.
I’ve never reblogged someone’s post before, but this reached out and gripped me full.
As LifeSchooler’s our commitment to igniting, inspiring and encouraging young minds is one that can feel, in moments, like we have grasped the helm of a ship tossing and turning in a sea we never quite believed we’d need to navigate to distant shores. Parenting, mentoring, leading from within with integrity requires tools and stamina I think we understood in theory, but that leave us unrecognizable even to ourselves in the mirror of our honesty.
We must live and lead believing we can find our way to lands envisioned, by the stars of our making and by gosh or by golly, what a world it can be when we learn to Assume greatness is ours by design and creation.
I wholeheartedly THANK The Belle Jar for this unassuming compass, empowering us to grasp the wheel full, upholding our grand and irrefutable responsibility to make this world a better place where others can assume More in explorations yet to come.
In the spirit of your adventure yet to be…
I Assume You’ll Take the Helm with Heart:)
jenni
Wonderful assumptions. How did I find it? Reminds me of something somebody once said (or sang): “you might not get what you want, but you get what you need”.
Ah, exactly! Thank you 🙂
Loved this, especially numbers 11 and 15. Thanks for sharing, very inspiring:-)
Congrats! A really inspiring post just what I needed 🙂
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i totally relate to assumption number 15.
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A truly timely post. Always assume you are meant to be magnificent.
A truly timely post. Always assume you are meant to be magnificent.
Thanks for the inspiring selection of assumptions and “The Earth Seen From The Moon” illustration, is a perfect image for your post.