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Instructions For Life
The following is taken from a Nepalese good luck mantra. You'll find it to be worth reading and worth sharing:
- 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 other 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, simply smile and ask, Why do you want to know?
- Remember that greater love and greater achievements involve great risks.
- Call your Mom or Dad.
- Say bless you when you hear someone sneeze.
- When you lose, don't lose the lesson, too.
- 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 thing you could want.
- 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 all 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 a disagreement with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
- Read between the lines.
- Share your knowledge. It is a happy 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.
- 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 want you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
- Learn all the rules, then break some of them.
- Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.
- Judge your success by what you what you had to give up in order to attain it.
- Remember that your character is your destiny.
- Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
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Last updated: January 20, 1999
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