19 Instructions for Life by Dalai Lama

Sometimes life feels heavy, restless, brutal and even too hard to actually live it.

We as humans are designed by the creator to feel these things and some of us can feel such situations more than others. This makes it more harder to understand and adapt.

Often it looks like there's no solution left, but! There are people like Dalai Lama and more who make us feel good, brave and motivated to at least live life in a happy state.

Without any further ado, let me share with you the famous rules shared by Dalai Lama as 19 instructions for life and they really make sense.

Here's the complete list:

19 Instructions for Life by Dalai Lama

Read them as the pure and worthy rules to live your life in peace, completeness, and prosperity:

1. Be gentle with the earth.
2. Spend some time alone every day.
3. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
4. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
5. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
6. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
7. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
8. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
9. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
10. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
11. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, respect for others, responsibility for all your actions.
12. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
13. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
14. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
15. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
16. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
17. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
18. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
19. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

If you wish to download all of these 19 rules of life by Dalai Lama (originally the instructions of life) you can see this image below with all of them written beautifully and you can tap and hold the image to download, print or just share with someone you care about:

Just don't read these instructions, make sure you act on them.

The best way is to pick at least 1 rule for every week and keep on moving to the next rule for the next week, and repeat.

This type of implementation will help you cope with various situations in your life.

At least that helped me!