- Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
- Follow the three R’s: Respect for self – Respect for others – and Responsibility for all your actions.
- Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- When you realise you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
- Spend some time alone each day.
- Open arms to change but don’t let go of your values.
- Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
- A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
- Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
- Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.
- Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon
Good Karma: Dalai Lama July 6, 2007
Greatest proofs of goodness… April 9, 2007
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two
greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength
of mind.
- William Hazlitt, “Characteristics,” 1823
Attaining Goodness…Honesty… February 22, 2007
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
-Lao-Tzu, (604-531BC) Chinese Philosopher, Co-founder of Taoism
What is the root of all goodness… February 14, 2007
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
- Dalai Lama quotes (Head of the Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan Buddhists, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, b.1935)
What is the proof of one’s own goodness… February 14, 2007
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
- Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592)
