18 Rules of Living by Dalai Lama

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 Rs: 1. Respect for self 2. Respect for others 3. Responsibility for all 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.

Ten Inspirational quotes to brighten your day

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland

“If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.” - Unknown author

“The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” - Unknown author

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

“What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Abraham Lincoln’s letter to his son’s Head Master

Abraham Lincoln’s letter to his son’s Head Master

Respected Teacher,

• My son will have to learn I know that all men are not just, all men are not true. But teach him also that for ever scoundrel there is a hero; that for every selfish politician, there is a dedicated leader. Teach him that for every enemy there is a friend.

• It will take time, I know; but teach him, if you can, that a dollar earned is far more valuable than five found.

• Teach him to learn to lose and also to enjoy winning.

• Steer him away from envy, if you can.

• Teach him the secret of quite laughter. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest to tick.

• Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books.. but also give him quiet time to ponder over the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and flowers on a green hill –side.

• In school teach him it is far more honourable to fail than to cheat.

• Teach him to have faith in his own ideas, even if every one tells him they are wrong.

• Teach him to be gentle with gentle people and tough with the tough.

• Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when every one is getting on the bandwagon.

• Teach him to listen to all men but teach him also to filter all he hears on a screen of truth and take only the good that comes through.

• Teach him, if you can, how to laugh when he is sad. Teach him there is no shame in tears. Teach him to scoff at cynics and to beware of too much sweetness.

• Teach him to sell his brawn and brain to the highest bidders; but never to put a price tag on his heart and soul.

• Teach him to close his ears to a howling mob… and to stand and fight if he thinks he’s right.

• Treat him gently; but do not cuddle him because only the test of fire makes fine steel.

• Let him have the courage to be impatient, let him have the patience to be brave. Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself because then he will always have sublime faith in mankind.

This is a big order; but see what you can do. He is such a fine little fellow, my son.


Abraham Lincoln.