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Instructions For Life

Submitted by Pravs J on Thursday, 14 May 200951 Comments

Instructions For Life

  • Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
  • Memorize your favorite poem.
  • Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
  • When you say, “I love you”, mean it.
  • When you say, “I’m sorry”, look the person in the eye.
     
  • Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
  • Believe in love at first sight.
  • Never laugh at anyone’s dreams.
  • Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.
  • In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
     
  • Don’t judge people by their relatives.
  • Talk slowly but think quickly.
  • When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?”
  • Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
  • Call your mom.
     
  • Say “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.
  • When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
  • Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.
  • Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
  • When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
     
  • Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
  • Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
  • Spend some time alone.
  • Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
  • Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
     
  • Read more books and watch less TV.
  • Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll get to enjoy it a second time.
  • Trust in God but lock your car.
  • A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home.
  • In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
     
  • Read between the lines.
  • Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
  • Be gentle with the earth.
  • Pray. There’s immeasurable power in it.
  • Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
     
  • Mind your own business.
  • Don’t trust a man/woman who doesn’t close his/her eyes when you kiss.
  • At least once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
  • If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth’s greatest satisfaction.
  • Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
     
  • Learn the rules then break some.
  • Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.
  • Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
  • Remember that your character is your destiny.
  • Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.        
~ Words by Dalai Lama ~

51 Comments »

  • Sweta said:

    Thanks for these beautiful instructions of life…great work..awesome thoughts..

    - 14 May 2009 at 7:13 pm
  • Adi said:

    Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.

    - 14 May 2009 at 7:34 pm
  • komila said:

    hi
    would like to thank you for such an lovely mail each and every line is related in some or the other way…i did foward this mail to one of my friend he was totally inspired by this fwd msg he wntd to join pravsj group and he did…thank you once again

    - 14 May 2009 at 8:38 pm
  • Lucy said:

    If we all lived following all these magnificent and still simple instructions, what a wonderful world this would be.But still if we try at least some of them,how happy we would be.

    - 15 May 2009 at 12:44 am
  • balaji_nayuni said:

    very good words…! :-)

    - 15 May 2009 at 3:15 am
  • Sue said:

    Beautiful!!

    - 15 May 2009 at 3:31 am
  • Vikram said:

    I have no words to say for such a beautiful essence of LIFe….

    Thanks Dalai Lama….
    Thanks prevs….
    May G0D bless you……

    Waiting for the add-ons on the same…

    - 15 May 2009 at 4:03 am
  • Vikram said:

    Pravs …can you please provide the similiar essences of life & releated stories as we all receiveing recently…..

    It will be a great help…..in todays time

    - 15 May 2009 at 4:05 am
  • khalid said:

    Dear

    These lines helped me out in taking some important decisions

    - 15 May 2009 at 4:33 am
  • Aditya said:

    Amazing thoughts….simple but very useful..thanks

    - 15 May 2009 at 4:43 am
  • Tripti said:

    Beautiful….Simply amazing!!

    Thanks so much!!

    - 15 May 2009 at 4:48 am
  • Sashmita said:

    Awesome !!!… Every word is so true, must say well composed..

    - 15 May 2009 at 6:01 am
  • Salini said:

    Really wonderful pravs….

    - 15 May 2009 at 6:10 am
  • Savi said:

    Wise words from a wise leader - thought provoking and inspiring. Thank you Pravs!

    - 15 May 2009 at 6:34 am
  • VP said:

    These are such beautiful words….
    Only a learned person could put such important lessons of life in simple words like these…

    - 15 May 2009 at 6:37 am
  • Riyu said:

    Very Helpful msg for all.

    - 15 May 2009 at 6:52 am
  • Bhadresh Sharma said:

    Amazing thoughts

    - 15 May 2009 at 7:40 am
  • jackson said:

    hi,
    a very thought provoking mail.i love it but can someone please explain “Don’t trust a man/woman who doesn’t close his/her eyes when you kiss” more to me.

    - 15 May 2009 at 8:05 am
  • Pooja said:

    i promise myself, first to try these instructions to be involved in my life……….thanks to Dalai Lama as these are facts and useful…..and thanks to pavs for sending me the msg…

    - 15 May 2009 at 9:24 am
  • meera said:

    thanks you soo much for all these loving inspiring words!!

    - 15 May 2009 at 9:33 am
  • Ashwini said:

    Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
    Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

    Amazing thoughts!

    Thank you so so so much!

    - 15 May 2009 at 10:16 am
  • MEGHNA SUDAN said:

    i liked ur great attitude towards life… i too have similar thoughts… i am also too passionate about love … i love truly and respect relations… though others have taken advantage of my sincere nature… but it has rather motivated me to go ahead with a positive getup…..

    - 15 May 2009 at 10:41 am
  • MEGHNA SUDAN said:

    hey hi jackson… ur answer is ….. that man/woman is an acclaimed cheater if he/she dosent close his eyes b’coz he dosent know the beauty of true love….. he is a fraud person… he dosent value others emotions…..

    - 15 May 2009 at 10:47 am
  • Kesha said:

    This is great…..

    - 15 May 2009 at 12:35 pm
  • sakshi said:

    hi,

    Awesome…and amazing thoughts……..and very true….

    - 15 May 2009 at 3:00 pm
  • Ri said:

    An eight-year-old boy approached an old man in front of a wishing well, looked up into his eyes, and asked: “I understand you’re a very wise man. I’d like to know the secret of life.”

    The old man looked down at the youngster and replied: “I’ve thought a lot in my lifetime, and the secret can be summed up in four words.

    The first is Think. Think about the values you wish to live your life by.

    The second is Believe. Believe in yourself based on the thinking you’ve done about the values you’re going to live your life by.

    The third is Dream. Dream about the things that can be, based on your belief in yourself and the values you’re going to live by.

    The last is Dare. Dare to make your dreams become reality, based on your belief in yourself and your values.”

    And with that, the man said to the little boy, “Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.”

    ..This was nice pravs…

    - 15 May 2009 at 4:27 pm
  • Jamshed said:

    Really wonderful pravs

    - 15 May 2009 at 5:16 pm
  • Jamshed said:

    Amazing thoughts….simple but very useful..thanks

    - 15 May 2009 at 5:17 pm
  • Pravs J (author) said:

    @All

    Thanks for your wonderful comments. I did not expect such good response on this mails.. since its little long to go through, but you all amazed me. Thanks so much.

    Would thank Dalai Lama for writing these meaningful lines. Life around us will be so beautiful if we live by these words.

    @Ri

    Can I share this story you wrote with all?

    - 15 May 2009 at 5:33 pm
  • smita said:

    Thanks…Pravs…

    - 15 May 2009 at 9:52 pm
  • Brad Pitt said:

    thanks, amazing words,I am from China, and I am inspired by Dalai lama, a truly spiritual leader! Thank you, indeed, keep writing such poems!

    - 16 May 2009 at 2:48 am
  • samannaz said:

    great.thanks

    - 16 May 2009 at 4:39 am
  • Ravindra Joshi said:

    Live Life Kingsize no matter what you have in your pockets when your heart is full of life.

    - 16 May 2009 at 4:50 am
  • dinesh said:

    after reading words by Dalai Lama , i’am more interested in reading
    books written by Dalai Lama.
    such a wonderful and beautiful thoughts.
    thanks pravs for giving us beautiful and wise quotes.

    - 16 May 2009 at 6:32 am
  • Ri said:

    Dear Pravs…Ofcourse you can…

    - 16 May 2009 at 3:52 pm
  • Varun Luthra said:

    Realli cool lines and it will helps me alot…

    All lines r awesome……

    Thxs and keep it up…..ur all words r rocking…..!!!!!!!!

    - 17 May 2009 at 9:24 am
  • Prakash said:

    Dear Pravs,

    Thanks a lot for sending such a good message.

    the one who follows/experiences as much as possisble from the above will be more happy in his/her life

    Once again thanks pravs

    - 17 May 2009 at 9:26 am
  • Trupti said:

    Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values…..
    Hi Pravs thanks-a-ton for sharing these maenningful and thought provoking words with us.
    They are simply amazing.

    Thanks again.

    Indeed Life around us will be very beautiful if we all live by these words.

    - 17 May 2009 at 12:35 pm
  • Amit Verma said:

    Thanks for these nice instructions of life.

    - 19 May 2009 at 2:27 am
  • Eliane Cerchiari said:

    What else can I add to all the commnets? Nothing….I can only read on and on all of these teachings and try to do my best to follow them…….

    - 19 May 2009 at 11:15 pm
  • Kobits said:

    Whose instructions shall I follow, those of god or those of satan. At times satan gives instructions wearing the apparel of god.No offence caused to anyone.

    - 20 May 2009 at 2:19 am
  • Reds said:

    ‘Love deeply and passionately’great will take note of this instruction as very recently was into this but… well, let’s say I’ve been saved by God.

    - 20 May 2009 at 2:29 am
  • samannaz said:

    it is so felling.thankssssssssssssssssssssss

    - 20 May 2009 at 6:19 am
  • uma.v said:

    hi friends,
    the messages are punching and gives a deep insight on the mistakes which we normal human beings do and a caution who attempts to do it.

    - 20 May 2009 at 9:17 am
  • taseen beig said:

    this is the rit way of life

    - 21 May 2009 at 5:28 am
  • rain drop said:

    _ Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.

    _ When you say, “I love you”, mean it.

    _ When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

    Those are the most important words but unfortunatilly people dont realize them till they encounter them personally in their lives.

    Thank you a lot .

    - 21 May 2009 at 11:20 am
  • kristy said:

    soooo amazing instructions. hope I will use it well

    - 27 May 2009 at 12:30 am
  • Stephanie Treasure said:

    Great words of wisdom! I will try to apply to my life. Thanks for posting.

    - 28 May 2009 at 3:12 pm
  • mushtaq gulamhusein said:

    THANKS.

    - 27 July 2009 at 11:57 am
  • Kavita C. said:

    Thanks a lot for these instructions!..it can actually teach you living!. you have made my day dear Pravs!

    - 11 November 2009 at 7:47 pm
  • Ranisha said:

    I LOVE IT..!!! :)

    - 23 November 2009 at 5:11 am

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