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Find out which of our pollers learned about true love this year.

Good comes from bad … cream doesn’t always rise … love can really happen … Read Part 2 of our holiday polling: “What was the biggest lesson you learned in 2011?” Read Part 1 of our poll here

Colin Tunstall, Founder/Partner Saturdays

Get shit done ‘cause time goes by quickly.

Charlotte Ronson, Designer

One’s happiness is everything.

Heidi Bivens, Stylist

Change is good!

Andre Torres, Wax Poetics

The biggest lesson I learned this year is that cream doesn’t always rise to the top.

Sam Spiegel, Producer/DJ

I’ve learned patience. I’ve been sick for 5 months with Lyme disease smack dab in the middle of making my album. It’s been hard for me to relax and not push myself so I can rest up and get better.

Norman Reedus, Director/Actor

To slow down and take it all in. Appreciate what you have around you, right now.

Anthony Haden Guest, Writer

Very good things can come out of very bad things. I mean, that’s basic, but in the last twelve months, it came true a NUMBER of times.

Michael Nevin, Founder, The Journal

To sieze the moment.

Aaron Rose, Art Curator

I got engaged a few months ago, so I guess my biggest lesson is that true love really is possible.