“If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for there will always be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”
—Max Ehrmann (via quote-book)
June 2011
That awkward moment when you're really annoyed at someone but you don't wanna start a fight so you'll just shut up.
GPOY. Sort of.
jffcrmr: Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living →
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At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama issued eighteen rules for living.
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....
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
—Dalai Lama (via huggafaith)
“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.”
—Dalai Lama
There are several ways to react to being lost.
One way is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you’ve misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.
Find what makes your life bearable. Hold on to it. Never let go.
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
—Gustave Flaubert (via thresca)
