Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone every day.
Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go some place you’ve never been before.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
I have a journal I carry with me and have done so for the last few years. I add things to it when I find something useful. Every now and then I open it in a quiet place and read. This is a lovely list of instructions for life courtesy of the Dali Lama. A wise old man. Wise words.















voyeur36
on Jun 1st, 2009
@ 23:54:
This is brilliant. May I copy it? It takes a lot of faith to follow some of these though.
vanimp
on Jun 2nd, 2009
@ 10:38:
Faith or common sense?