Dalai Lama Instructions For Life

The Dalai Lama’s Instructions for Life

Dalai Lama has said these motivational and inspirational quotes and instructions for life. Here are these wise sayings from spiritual person’s to inspire us to be better human beings.

  1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
  2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
  3. Follow the three R’s:- Respect for self. – Respect for others.- Responsibility for all of your actions.
  4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
  5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
  6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
  7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
  8. Spend some time alone every day.
  9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
  10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
  11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
  12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
  13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
  14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
  15. Be gentle with the earth.
  16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
  17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
  18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
  19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

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Finding Peace Quotes

We are living too hectic and busy life with constant cell phone, iphones, televisions, computer and other noises in life, peace is something we are craving secretly inside. Slowing down and taking time to smell roses sounds like a wonderful things to do, but many time we have things to do, chore to finish and job to do before next day. While, no one take away the work, take time to read these motivational quotes about finding peace and you may just get a little bit of sanity and peace back. Good luck.

Peace Quotes:

Peace of mind is not a goal I need achieve.  It’s a place inside I never want to leave.  Close my eyes, I still my thoughts and then I say I will choose to live in peace today. – Robert Alan

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace.
– Kofi Annan

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness. – Dalai Lama

Peace is a resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.
-Judith Butler

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. – Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.

Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.

Better than a hundred hollow lines
Is one line of the law, bringing peace.

-Gautama Buddha

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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. – St. Francis de Sales

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
-Benjamin Franklin

Peace of mind is not a goal I need achieve. It’s a place inside I never want to leave. Close my eyes, I still my thoughts and then I say I will choose to live in peace today. – Robert Alan

The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.
-James Hinton

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? – Peace Pilgrim

peacebookThe situation of the world is still like this. People completely identify with one side, one ideology. To understand the suffering and the fear of a citizen of the Soviet Union, we have to become one with him or her. To do so is dangerous — we will be suspected by both sides. But if we don’t do it, if we align ourselves with one side or the other, we will lose our chance to work for peace. Reconciliation is to understand both sides, to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then to go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. Doing only that will be a great help for peace.
-Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. – Gerald Jampolsky

Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.
-Yeshua (Jesus Christ)

Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity — instead of anger and resentment. – Unknown

Maybe tomorrow when He looks down
Every green field and every town
All of his children every nation
There’ll be peace and good, brotherhood…
Crystal blue persuasion
-Tommy James

We can only help make our lives and our world more peaceful, when we ourselves feel peace. Peace already exists within each of us, if we only allow ourselves to feel its comfort. Peace of mind begins when we stop thinking about how far we have to go, or how hard the road has been, and just let ourselves feel peace. Peace of mind gives us the strength to keep trying and keep walking along the path that we KNOW is right for our lives. – Robert Alan

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
-Helen Keller, as quoted in Henry More

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things. – Dogen

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
-John Lennon in “Give Peace A Chance”

When the restless activity of your mind slows down, when your thoughts stop rushing like waves on a windy day, then you will start getting glimpses of the sweet taste of inner peace. – Remez Sasson

Peace Finding Books:

Finding Peace By Jean Vanier: One of our deepest human desires and needs is to live in peace. We all yearn for peace, but what is it exactly? How do we find it, and how can we bring peace to our lives and our communities? Jean Vanier reflects on recent world events, identifying the sources of conflict and fear within and among individuals, communities, and nations that thwart us in our quest for peace.

21 Ways to Finding Peace and Happiness: Overcoming Anxiety, Fear, and Discontentment Every Day by Joyce Meyer: In today’s world, peace is hard to come by. When personal desires are followed, serenity is forfeited. By submitting one’s life to God, a peace-filled life is ensured.

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Peace Quotes

Here are some quotes about peace, finding peace in our life.

Let us love the world to peace.  ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. –Indira Gandhi

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. – James Conrad

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.-Lao Tse

Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. –Vera Brittain

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace? – J. Ramsay MacDonald

A smile is the beginning of peace. – Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. –Albert Einstein

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. –Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. ~Dwight Eisenhower

End each day with thoughts of peace. Begin each day with
thoughts of peace. Continue thinking thoughts of peace
throughout your precious day and happiness will be yours. –Unknown

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. –Buddha

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.- Mohandas Gandhi

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. –Mother Teresa

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. –Mahatma Gandhi

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. -Winston Churchill

Avoid popularity if you would have peace. –Abraham Lincoln

A people free to choose will always choose peace. – Ronald Reagan

I would rather have peace in the world than be President. –Harry S. Truman

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once. –Robert A. Heinlein

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace? ~J.Ramsay MacDonald

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. –Chanakya

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. –Ulysses S. Grant

True peace is found in this moment. Acceptance is the 1st step to inner calm. –Unknown

Let loose of what you can’t control. Serenity will be yours. – Unknown

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the
wise long for a state of tranquility. – Swami Rama

In the name of peace
They waged the wars
Ain’t they got no shame –Nikki Giovanni

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with
the world. – Marcus Aurelius

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. –Andrew Jackson

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. –George C. Marshall