The Dalai Lama's 18 Rules For Living. May 6, 2011 | 42 Comments » | Topics: Life, List At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living. Since word travels slowly in the digital age these have only just reached me. Here they are. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. Via OwenKelly Hot Stories From Around The Web Other Awesome Stories. Instructions for Life. 100 Best Quotes About Life - StumbleUpon. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
–Charles Darwin All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. –Ralph Waldo Emerson All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out. A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Every man dies. Everything has been figured out, except how to live. 26 of the best pieces of advice you'll ever hear. It's not every day that a duck gives you some of the best advice of your life.
Well, luckily for you, today is one of those days. Just when you thought that all hope was lost here he is. Is it a bird? Is it a plane with a beak? No, it's the Actual Advice Mallard (never to be confused with his evil meme counterpart Malicious Advice Mallard) and he's here to help. From your relationship issues, to your grades, to your microwaving. In fact, we think he should be called 'Agony Mallard', and we're sure he'd be happy to solve your problems. No, seriously, he's waiting. We're giving away first class InterRail tickets, lunch at PizzaExpress, tickets to Bestival, and loads more... For a chance to win go to Refreshers Wall now. 20 Things I Should Have Known at 20.
10 Sentences that Can Change Your Life. The power of a sentence is tremendous.
A single destructive sentence can ruin somebody’s life, make your day, or change your mood. Fortunately, there are some sentences that can give us power to go on. We have sorted out 10 powerful sentences that can change your life for the better. #1 “People aren’t against you; they are for themselves.” #2 “Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.” #3 “You learn more from failure than from success; don’t let it stop you.
. #4 “The most dangerous risk of all – The risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later” #5 “Go where you’re celebrated, not where you’re tolerated.” #6 “The person that you will spend the most time with in your life is yourself, so you better try to make yourself as interesting as possible.” 45 Life Lessons, written by a 90 year old. Top five regrets of the dying. There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps.
A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'. Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives.
She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. Ware writes of the phenomenal clarity of vision that people gain at the end of their lives, and how we might learn from their wisdom. Here are the top five regrets of the dying, as witnessed by Ware: 16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School. I am 28 now.
I don’t think about the past or regret things much these days. But sometimes I wish that I had known some of things I have learned over the last few years a bit earlier. That perhaps there had been a self-improvement class in school. And in some ways there probably was. 20 Life Lessons A Wise Man Would Share. Golden Rules for Living. 18 Rules of Living by the Dalai Lama. 7 Lessons From 7 Great Minds. Have you ever wished you could go back in time and have a conversation with one of the greatest minds in history?
Well, you can’t sorry, they’re dead. Unless of course you’re clairaudient, be my guest. But for the rest of us, we can still refer to the words they left behind. Even though these great teachers have passed on, their words still live, and in them their wisdom. I’ve made a list of seven what I believe are some of the greatest teachings by the world’s greatest minds. 1.
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” - Lawrence J. In order for us to achieve our dreams, we must have a vision of our goals. Action: Visualize a life of your wildest dreams. 2. “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson The best way to learn something is to dive right in to it. 27 lessons I’ve learned in 27 years.