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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Mood Lifting Quotes: Uplifting Inspirational Quotes To Cheer Up With

We can all use motivational and inspirational uplifting quotes to cheer us up from time to time. Here are some uplifting quotes to cheer up with.

“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” -Richard Feynman

“What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the prognosis. Who is the doctor? The mind of the patient.” -Alan Cohen

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.” -Marie Beyon Ray

“Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we’re doing something else.” -Joko Beck

“The challenge is to believe your dreams in the center of illusion.” -Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)

“I wanted a perfect ending.. Now, I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” -Gilda Radner

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.” -Samuel Johnson

“And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.” {Romeo and Juliet} – -William Shakespeare

“True love is the most enduring of all of life’s worldly possessions, never tarnishing over time but ever to remain bright and brilliant in the light of love.” -Joseph P. Martino

“True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.” -Jeremy Collier

“Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” -Dale Turner

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.” -Isaac Newton

“Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.” -Sidney Lovett

“To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the enlightened mind the whole world sparkles and burns.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our own ignorance about ourselves.” -Carl Sagan

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.” -Dinah Craik

“All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?” -C.S. Lewis

“There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter — loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.” -Sir William Osler

“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.” -Henry David Thoreau

“Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.”- William E. Gladstone

“A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.” -Edwin H. Chapin

Success Quotes: Lifting Up Quotes For Finding Success

Here are some quotes by famous and wise folks of our life about finding success. Inspirational and motivational quotes to lift up your spirit and make you steps closer to achieve success in your life.

“Hitch your wagon to a star”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

” Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
~ MAHATMA GANDHI

“The world will not change until we do”
~ JIM WALLIS

“The time is always right to do what is right.”
– MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard.. But must be felt with the heart.”

“Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.” Sidney Lovett

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” Louis L’Amour

“Follow your bliss”
— JOSEPH CAMPBELL

“Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is,
is the only way of being happy.”
– JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL

“The only reward of virtue is virtue.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too”
— ANNE FRANK

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
— MARK TWAIN

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection”
— LAWRENCE DURRELL

“A good travel agent is worth more than a good lawyer . . . .”

“Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion”
— LEO BUSCAGLIA

“Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.”
— SUZE ORMAN

“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful”
— ANNETTE FUNICELLO

“Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”
— CORITA KENT

” Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better”
— EMILE COUÉ

“If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year . . .
Today should always be our most wonderful day.”
— THOMAS DREIER

“Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure
is what is right here and right now. Don’t miss it.”
— LEO BUSCAGLIA

“When we are no longer able to change a situation… We are challenged to change ourselves”
~ VIKTOR FRANKL

“Be here now!”
— RAM DAS

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives”
— ANNIE DILLARD

“This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life”
— CHARLES DEDERICH

“Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.!”
— JAMES A .MICHENER

“Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

” Giving opens the way to receiving”
— FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN

” Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons”
— RUTH ANN SCHABACKER

“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”
— GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON

“Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.”
— UNKNOWN

“Your love is better than ice cream”
— SARAH MCLACHLAN

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
— CARL SAGAN

“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
— MARY ENGELBREIT

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
– CHARLES F. KETTERING

“We are often so caught up in our destination That we forget to appreciate the journey, Especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don’t overlook it.”
– AUTHOR UNKNOWN

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar
I love not man the less, but nature more”
— LORD BYRON

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“The best way to predict the future is to create it!”
— JASON KAUFMANN

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like a snowflake.”
— MARIE BEYON RAY

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”
– MICHAEL J. FOX

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Over All the Sky – The Sky! Far, Far out of Reach. Studded with the Eternal Stars.”
– WALT WHITMAN

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind.
The third is to be kind.”
– HENRY JAMES

“If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there.
Then never, never, never give up.”
– NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

What’s the best thing that happened to you today?”
– AMANDA GORE

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
– CHARLES F. KETTERING

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead.”
— LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens; not by what life brings us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst a spark that creates extraordinary results.”
— UNKNOWN

“The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart”
– ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
– HENRY MILLER

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
– BENJAMIN DISRAELI

“Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.”
— GRANDMA MOSES

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.
The great affair is to move.”
– ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

“Life is too short to fly coach!”
– DALE IRVIN

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— ANONYMOUS

“Not all those who wander are lost”
— J.R.R. Tolkein

How to Be a Leader: Motivational Leadership Quotes

Leadership quotes can be powerful and encouraging in personal or business life. Here are some that you may like;

And when we think we lead, we are most led. -Lord Byron

In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas  Jefferson

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
-Marian Anderson

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. -Admiral Arleigh A. Burke

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
-Sandra Carey

Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
Lester R. Bittel

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation. – Warren Bennis

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. -David R. Gergen

Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader. -Albert Einstein

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. -Harold S. Geneen

He that cannot obey cannot command. -Benjamin Franklin

Leadership resources:

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone’s got to make a wake up call. –Warren Bennis

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln

Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. -Ross Perot

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. –Mary D. Poole

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. – Ray Kroc

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. -Harry Truman

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Harold R. McAlindon

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.-Walter Lippman

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. –Warren Bennis

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. –Theodore Hesburgh

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. -Rosalynn Carter

Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst. -Rachel Maddow

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. -Kenneth Blanchard

Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. -John Gardner

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -Theodore Roosevelt

A leader is a dealer in hope. -Napoleon Bonaparte

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. –Edwin H. Friedman

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
-Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Good leaders must first become good servants. –Robert Greenleaf