Happy New Year

You are the music while the music lasts.

T S Elliot

It's This Way

I stand in the advancing light,
my hands hungry, the world beautiful.

My eyes can't get enough of the trees,
they're so hopeful, so green.

A sunny road runs through the mulberries,
I'm at the window of the prison infirmary

I can't smell the medicines,
carnations must be blooming nearby.

It's this way:
being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.

Nazim Hikmet

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

I am being accused of loving you, that is all
It is not an insult, but a praise, that is all

My heart is pleased at the words of the accusers
O my dearest dear, they say your name, that is all

For what I am ridiculed, it is not a crime
My heart's useless playtime, a failed love, that is all

I haven't lost hope, but just a fight, that is all
The night of suffering lengthens, but just a night, that is all

In the hand of time is not the rolling of my fate
In the hand of time roll just the days, that is all

A day will come for sure when I will see the truth
My beautiful beloved is behind a veil, that is all

The night is young, Faiz start saying a Ghazal
A storm of emotions is raging inside, that is all

Terrible

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Winston Churchill

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!

When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

Then the traveller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.

In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.

As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark,
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

Closed Path

I thought that my voyage had come to its end
at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed,
that provisions were exhausted
and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity.

But I find that thy will knows no end in me.
And when old words die out on the tongue,
new melodies break forth from the heart;
and where the old tracks are lost,
new country is revealed with its wonders

Rabindranath Tagore

The Rose that Grew from Concrete

Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong,

it learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.


Tupac Shakur

Loneliness

Loneliness like a good, old friend
visits my house to pour wine in the evening.
And we sit together, waiting for the moon,
and for your face to sparkle in every shadow.


Faiz Ahmed Faiz

L'Amour

Vous demandez si l'amour rend heureuse;
Il le promet, croyez-le, fût-ce un jour.
Ah! pour un jour d'existence amoureuse,
Qui ne mourrait? la vie est dans l'amour.

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair.

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others.

Love's Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle;
Why not I with thine?

See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss me not?

Percy Bysshe Shelley 

Proust

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
The only paradise is paradise lost.

Proust

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Proust

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Love

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.

Bible

Camus

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Camus

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Wondrous Moment

The wondrous moment of our meeting…
I well remember you appear
Before me like a vision fleeting,
A beauty's angel pure and clear. 

And here you once again appear
Before me like a vision fleeting,
A beauty's angel pure and clear.
In ecstasy the heart is beating,
Old joys for it anew revive; 

Alexander Pushkin 

Joan of Arc

Act, and God will act.

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. 

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Maybe

Maybe he believes me, maybe not.

Maybe I believe him, maybe not.

Maybe the wind on the prairie,

The wind on the sea, maybe,

Somebody, somewhere, maybe can tell.

I will lay my head on his shoulder

And when he asks me I will say yes,

Maybe.

Sartre

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Sartre

We do not judge the people we love.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Carl Sandburg

Under the summer roses

When the flagrant crimson

Lurks in the dusk

Of the wild red leaves,

Love, with little hands,

Comes and touches you

With a thousand memories,

And asks you

Beautiful, unanswerable questions

de Montaigne

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

de Montaigne

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

The thing I fear most is fear.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Beauty and Love

Beauty and love are all my dream;
They change not with the changing day;
Love stays forever like a stream
That flows but never flows away;

Andrew Young

Kierkegaard

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Once you label me you negate me.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Kierkegaard

Function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Omar Khayyam

A book of verse, underneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread - and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness -
Ah, wilderness were paradise now!

Machiavelli

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Before all else, be armed.

Machiavelli

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Hellen Keller

Be of good cheer.
Do not think of today's failures,
but of the success that may come tomorrow.
You have set yourselves a difficult task,
but you will succeed if you persevere;
and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
Remember, no effort that we make
to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Helen Keller

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Leo Buscaglia

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Henry David Thoreau

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The 90/10 principle - by Stephan Covey

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

What this mean is that we really have no control over 10% of what happens to us. The other 90% is different. You determine the other 90%. How? By your reaction. You cannot control things happening but you can control your reaction.

November Rain

When I look into your eyes

I can see a love restrained
But darlin' when I hold you
Don't you know I feel the same
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change
And it's hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain.

Guns N' Roses

November

"November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.

With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.

The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring."

Elizabeth Coatsworth

Autumn

"How silently they tumble down
And come to rest upon the ground
To lay a carpet, rich and rare,
Beneath the trees without a care,
Content to sleep, their work well done,
Colors gleaming in the sun.

At other times, they wildly fly
Until they nearly reach the sky.
Twisting, turning through the air
Till all the trees stand stark and bare.
Exhausted, drop to earth below
To wait, like children, for the snow."
Elsie N. Brady, Leaves

Ode to Autumn

"When the trees their summer splendor
Change to raiment red and gold,
When the summer moon turns mellow,
And the nights are getting cold;
When the squirrels hide their acorns,
And the woodchucks disappear;
Then we know that it is autumn,
Loveliest season of the year."

Carol L. Riser, Autumn

Who makes these changes?

I shoot an arrow to the right.

It lands left.

I ride after a deer and find myself

chased by a hog.

I plot to get what I want

and end up in prison.

I dig pits to trap others

and fall in.

I should be suspicious

of what I want.

The bird three pieces of wisdom

A man caught a bird in a trap. The bird says to the man, "Sir, you have eaten many cows and sheep in your life, and you're still hungry. The little meat on my bones won't satisfy you either. If you let me go, I'll will give you three pieces of wisdom. One I'll say standing in your hand. One on your roof. And one I'll will speak from the branches of that tree."

The man was interested. He freed the bird and let it stand on his hand. "Number One: Do not believe an absurdity, no matters who say it."

The bird flew to the man's roof. "Number two: Do not grieve over what is past. It's over. Never regret what has happened.

"By the way, " the bird continue, "................

The bird three pieces of wisdom

"By the way, " the bird continued, "in my body there's a very huge pearl. It was meant to be the inheritance for you and your children, but now you have lost it. You could have owned the largest pearl in existence, but evidently it was not meant to be."

The man started wailing and crying. The bird, "Didn't I just say don't grieve for what's in the past and don't believe in absurdity. How can my small body have a big heavy pearl inside it."

The man come to his senses. "All right. tell me Number Three." The bird flew to the tree and said "Yes. You've made such good use of the first two."

Solomon crooked crown

Solomon was busy judging others, when it was his personal thoughts that were disrupting the community.

His crown slid crooked on his head. He put it straight, but the crown went awry again. Eight times this happened. Finally he talk to his crown, "Why do you keep tilting over my eyes."

"I have to. When your power loses compassion, I have to show what such a condition looks like." Immediately Solomon recognized the truth and seek forgiveness. The crown centered itself on his crown.

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Solomon can wobble and go blind. Listen when your crown remind you of what makes you cold toward others.

The nightingale

A bird delegation came to Solomon complaining, "Why is it you never citicize the nightingale?"

"Because my way, " the nightingale explained "is different. Mid-March to mid-June I sing. The other nine months, while you continue chirping, I'm silent."

The frog and the ocean

To a frog that's never left his pond the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition.

The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't really explain what it's like where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

rumi

Alvin Toffler

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
 
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. 

Solomon Gabirol

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

T S Elliot

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T S Elliot

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

Men tighten the knot of confusion into perfect misunderstanding.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

T S Elliot

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

We know too much, and are convinced of too little.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Imagination rules the world.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Martin Luther

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Sa'adi

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Meditation

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.


Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under our observation in life.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Marcus Aurelius

Maya Angelou

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Sioux Prayer

O, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds
Whose breath gives life to the world, hear me
I come to you as one of your many children
I am small and weak
I need your strength and wisdom

May I walk in beauty
Make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made
And my ears sharp to your voice.
Make me wise so that I may know the things you have taught your children.

The lessons you have written in every leaf and rock
Make me strong--------!
Not to be superior to my brothers, but to fight my greatest enemy....myself

Make me ever ready to come to you with straight eyes,
So that when life fades as the fading sunset,

May my spirit come to you without shame.

You are part of me

You are part of me now

You touched me,

With your kindness and love

So enchanted.

Your soft lips are kind.

Your eyes glow with life.

I'm glad you touched me,

You're part of me now.

Lloyd Carl Owle

Blessing

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet
May you have enough trials to make you strong

May you have enough sorrow to keep you human

May you have enough hope to make you happy

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light,
and give thanks for your food and the joy of living.

Irish blessing

May green be the grass you walk on
May blue be the skies above you
May pure be the joys that surround you
May true be the hearts that love you

Apache Blessing

May the sun bring you new energy by day,
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries.

May the breeze blow new strength into your being,
may you walk gently through the world and
know its beauty all the days of your life.

Thomas Paine

Love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength in distress and grow brave by reflection.

It is the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct will pursue his principles unto death.

It is usually a surprise to discover that most ugliness we see in others is but a reflection of our own nature.

Learning

We learned by 3 methods
first...by reflections, which is the noblest
second...by imitation, which is the easiset
third...by experience, which is the most bitter

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it.

Confucius

reflections

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't  mind...Dr Seuss

Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them but if you follow them they may lead you to your destiny.

May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.

The Star

I love the lights for it shows me the way and I love the darkness for it shows me the stars.

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

When it is darkest that we see the stars.

Never neglect the little things

Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do.

It does not matter what others think, what important is what you think about you. You can never do your best if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities.

You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

Og Mandino

Og Mandino

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress.

Remind yourself that you have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can.

Never ever consider yourself defeated.

someone somewhere

Revel in your imperfections. Be entertained by your problems.

Somewhere there is someone that dreams of your smile and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile.

So when you are lonely remember it's true, someone somewhere is thinking of you.

remember

Always remember to slow down in life. Live, breathe and learn.

Take a look around you whenever you have the time and never forget everything and every person even it has the least place within your heart.

Hope

We can live for about forty days without food, about three days without water,
about eight minutes without air but only one second without hope.

Maya Angelou

People will forget what you said.

People will forget what you did.

But people will never forget how you made them feel.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

BMW 7 Principles of Leadership

Accept no compromice
Follow your instincts
Dare to innovate
Focus on the big picture
Assemble the strongest team
Excercise your privileges
Wield power responsibly

Monosticha Catonis

1. Itaque deo supplica. Pray to God.
2. Parentes ama. Love your parents.
3. Cognatos cole. Respect your kindred.
4. Magistrum metue. Fear (respect) your teacher.
5. Datum serva. Keep what is given to you.
6. Fora para. Be careful of the market-place.
7. Cum bonis ambula. Keep company with good people.
8. Antequam voceris, ne accesseris. Don't go until called.
9. Mundus esto. Keep clean.

Monosticha Catonis

10. Saluta libenter. Greet freely.
11. Maiori concede. Give way to your superior.
12. Minori parce. Be nice to your inferior.
13. Rem tuam custodi. Keep what you have (your counsels?)
14. Verecundiam serva. Preserve modesty.
15. Diligentiam adhibe. Be diligent.
16. Libros lege. Read books.
17. Quae legeris, memento. Remember what you read.
18. Familiam cura. Take care of your family.
19. Blandus esto. Be nice (be laid back).

Monosticha Catonis

20. Irascere ob rem noli. Don't get angry for no reason.
21. Neminem riseris. Don't laugh at anybody.
22. Mutuum da. Give in return.
23. Cui des, videto. Think about to whom you are giving.
24. In iudicio adesto. Stand by (a friend) in court.
25. Ad praetorium stato. Keep in good standing.
26. Convivare raro. Don't party too much.
27. Quod satis est, dormi. Sleep the right amount of time.
28. Iusiurandum serva. Keep your oath.
29. Vino tempera. Don't drink too much.

Monosticha Catonis

30. Pugna pro patria. Fight for your country.
31. Nihil temere credideris. Don't be gullible.
32. Tute consule. Give good advice.
33. Meretricem fuge. Flee the prostitute.
34. Litteras disce. Study literature.
35. Nihil mentire. Don't lie.
36. Bono benefacito. Do good to the good.
37. Maledicus ne esto. Don't curse.
38. Existimationem retine. Hold on to your reputation.
39. Aequum iudica. Judge properly.

Monosticha Catonis

40. Parentem patienter vince. Overcome your parent with patience.
41. Beneficii accepti esto memor. Remember a good turn.
42. Miserum noli ridere. Don't sneer at the poor.
43. Consultus esto. Be a good guru.
44. Virtute utere. Practice virtue.
45. Iracundiam temporale rege. Control your anger.
46. Trocho lude. Play with the hoop.
47. Aleam fuge. Spurn dice-playing.
48. Nihil arbitrii virium feceris. Don't be a bully.
49. Minorem non contempseris. Don't sneer at your inferior.

Monosticha Catonis

50. Alienum noli concupisci. Don't covet.
51. Coniugem ama. Love your wife.
52. Liberos erudi. Teach your children.
53. Pati legem, quam ipse tuleris. Keep the law you make yourself.
54. Pauca in convivio loquere. Don't talk much at a banquet.
55. Illud stude agere, quod iustum est. Seek to do that which is right.
56. Libenter amorem ferto. Be ready to show affection.
57. Minime iudica. Do not judge.

Che Guevera

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

09.10.2010...living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

Cato the Elder

Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tounge, he approaches nearest to God who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

It is sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Bukan Kerana Nama

Jangan kau pandang bibir yang manis
Kerana dia bisa menghancurkan
Jangan kau pandang wajah yang indah
Kerana dia bisa meracunmu

Dengarlah hai teman
Dengarkan bersama
Aku menulis bukan kerna nama
Kerna sifat kasih
Pada sesama insan
Dan menyatakan kasih sayangmu
Kita sama semuanya sama
Apa yang ada hanyalah kehidupan

Jangan kau dengar puisi dusta
Kerana dia bisa merosakkan jiwamu
Dengarkanlah puisi di pusaka
Yang telah turun temurun hari ini

Jangan kau alas hatimu itu
Dengan secebis warna kehitaman
Dialah seperti anai-anai
Lambat laun hancurlah dirimu

Ramli Sarip & A Romzie (Mohamad Bakri Johari)

Oscar Wilde

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is to late that that the only things one never regret are one's mistakes.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Still hung up on mistakes... :'(

A life making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing...George Bernard Shaw

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake...Napoleon Bonaparte

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior...Henry C Link

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power...Hugh White

Still on mistakes

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

To avoid situation in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

on mistake

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

The old salamander, it would not do the unnecessary things to avoid making mistakes and thus have a safe but boring life.

extract from 4 gold chasers

Lately been making lot of mistakes and looking for inspirations to overcome it...

People

This life is all about giving and living to the fullest and going through everythings this world has to offer...the good times, the bad times, the happy times, the sad times and to never give up.

And remember that  the most important things in life is people.

worst of times

I thought that what I have gone through before was the worst of times in my life and that nothing in this world after that can affect me any more.

Never do I expect that things happening now can hurt me much worse than before. Is this than the worst times in my life?

extract from bread, love and dreams.

Mabuk

Ditayangan ombak bujang bersela
dijunjung hulu rapuh semata
dikipasi angin bergurau senda
lupakan kelana akan dirinya...

Dimabukkan harum pecah terberai
diulikkan bujuk rangkai-rinangkai
datanglah semua mengungkai simpai
hatimu bujang sekali bisai

Bulan mengintai di celah awan
bersemayam senyum sayu-sendu
teja undur perlahan-lahan
mukanya merah mengandung malu.

Mabuk

Rumput rendah rangkum-rinangkum
tibun embun turun ke rumpun
lembah-lembah menjunjung harum
mendatangkan kayal bujang mencium

Melur sekaki dibuaikan sepoi
dalam cahaya rupa melambai
pelik bunga membawaku ragu
layu kupetik bunga gemalai

Bunga setangkai gemelai permai
dalam tanganku jatuh terserah
kelopak kupandang sari kunilai
datanglah jemu mengatakan sudah

Bulan berbuni di balik awan
taram-temaram cendera cahaya
teja lari ke dalam lautan
tinggallah aku tiada berpelita.

Amir Hamzah

On Waiting

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

Khaled Hosseini

The tears that turn to pearls

This is a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls.

Even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he has to found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow.

The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

extract fom Kite Runner

Truth

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Khaled Hosseini

Senyum hatiku, senyum

Senyum hatiku, senyum
gelak hatiku, gelak
dukamu tuan, aduhai kulum
walaupun hatimu, rasakan retak

Benar mawar kembang
melur mengirai kelopak
anak dara duduk berdendang
tetapi engkau, aduhai fakir, dikenang orang sekalipun tidak.

Kuketahui, terkukursulang menyulang
murai berkicau melagukan cinta
tetapi engkau aduhai dagang
umpamakan pungguk merayukan purnama.

Sungguh matahari dirangkum segara
purnama raya di lingkung bintang
tetapi engkau, aduhai kelana
siapa mengusap hatimu bimbang?

Senyum hatiku, senyum

Diam hatiku , diam
cubakan ria, hatiku ria
sedih tuan, cubalah pendam
umpama disekam, api menyala.

Mengapakah rama-rama boleh bersenda
alun boleh mencium pantai
tetapi beta makhluk utama
duka dan cinta menjadi selampai?

Senyap, hatiku senyap
adakah boleh engkau merana
sudahlah ini nasip yang tetap
engkau terima di pangkuan bonda

Amir Hamzah

when you are drowning

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

John Lennon