31.12.2011

Gieokeun iceodo simjangeun gieok hada

Bread and Music

Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
All that was once so beautiful is dead.

Your hands once touched this table and this silver,
And I have seen your fingers hold this glass.
These things do not remember you, belovèd,
And yet your touch upon them will not pass.

For it was in my heart you moved among them,
And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes;
And in my heart they will remember always,
They knew you once, O beautiful and wise.

Conrad Aiken

Distant light

Harsh and cold
autumn holds to it our naked trees:
If only you would free, at least, the sparrows
from the tips of your fingers
and release a smile, a small smile
from the imprisoned cry I see.
Sing! Can we sing
as if we were light, hand in hand
sheltered in shade, under a strong sun?
Will you remain, this way
stoking the fire, more beautiful than necessary, and quiet?
Darkness intensifies
and the distant light is our only consolation
that one, which from the beginning
has, little by little, been flickering
and is now about to go out.
Come to me. Closer and closer.
I don't want to know my hand from yours.
And let's beware of sleep, lest the snow smother us.

Walid Khazindar

Mengapa di rindu

Anak punai anak merbah
Terbang turun buat sarang
Anak sungai pun berubah
Ini pula hati orang
Mengapa dikenang

Asal kapas jadi benang
Dari benang dibuat baju
Barang lepas jangan kenang
Sudah jadi orang baru
Mengapa dirindu

Kasih yang dulu tinggal dalam mimpi
Kasih yang baru simpan di hati
Kasih yang dulu tinggal dalam mimpi
Kasih yang baru simpan di hati

Mengapa di rindu

Selat teduh lautan tenang
Banyak labuh perahu Aceh
Jangan kesal jangan kenang
Walau hati rasa pedih
Mengapa bersedih

Kalau pinang masih muda
Rasanya kelat sudahlah pasti
Kalau hilang kasih lama
Cari lain untuk ganti
Mengapa dinanti

Patah 'kan tumbuh hilang berganti
Akan sembuh kalau diubati
Patah 'kan tumbuh hilang berganti
Akan sembuh kalau diubati
Sayang mengapa dirindu

Cindai

Cindailah mana tidak berkias
Jalinnya lalu rentah beribu
Bagailah mana hendak berhias
Cerminku retak seribu

Mendendam unggas liar di hutan
Jalan yang tinggal jalan berliku
Tilam ku emas cadarnya intan
Berbantal lengan tidurku

Hias cempaka kenangan tepian
Mekarnya kuntum nak idam kumbang
Puas ku jaga sibunga impian
Gugurnya sebelum berkembang

Hendaklah hendak hendak ku rasa
Puncaknya gunung hendak ditawan
Tidaklah tidak tidak ku daya
Tingginya tidak terlawan

Cindai

Janganlah jangan jangan ku hiba
Derita hati jangan dikenang
Bukanlah bukan bukan ku pinta
Merajuk bukan berpanjangan

Akar beringin tidak berbatas
Cuma bersilang paut di tepi
Bidukku lilin layarnya kertas
Seberang laut berapi

Gurindam lagu bergema takbir
Tiong bernyanyi pohonan jati
Bertanam tebu di pinggir bibir
Rebung berduri di hati

Laman memutih pawana menerpa
Langit membiru awan bertali
Bukan di rintih pada siapa
Menunggu sinarkan kembali

Patah hatiku

Patah hatiku
Membawa derita
Merajuklah diri
Merajuk diri
Tak tentu haluan

Patah hati ku
Membawa derita
Merajuklah diri
Merajuk diri tak tentu haluan

Ku harap janjimu
Bahagia selalu
Sayang
Rupanya patah
Rupanya patah di tengah jalan

Patah hatiku

Hendak diulang... Hendak diulang
Resah menanggung
Sayang
Kenanglah jangan
Kenanglah jangan disebut pun jangan

Hancur hatiku
Di dalam nestapa
Mengenangkan nasib
Mengenang nasib diriku malang

Maksud hatiku
Maksud hatiku
Bahagia bersama
Sayang
Apakan daya
Diriku miskin
Harta tak punya

Ingin ku petik
Bintang yang tinggi
Sayang
Tanganku hangus
Tanganku hangus disambar petir

Nizami - Layla and Majnun

For how long then do you want to deceive yourself?

For how long will you refuse to see yourself as you are and as you will be?

Each grain of sand takes its own length and breadth as the measure of the world;

yet, beside a mountain range it is as nothing.

You yourself are the grain of sand; you are your own prisoner.

Break your cage, break free from yourself, free from humanity;

learn that what you thought was real is not so in reality.

Reminder for today

To get something you never had, you have to do someting you've never done.

A A Milne

You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

Marianne Williamson

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong or you can focus on what's right.

Goethe

Things that matter most should never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

A simple prayer for today

May our hope come alive and our doubt become silent.

Colonel Potter (MASH)

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. 

Shakespeare

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

Bertrand Russell

We have two kinds of morality side by side:  one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach

Mignon McLaughlin

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

Montaigne

Saying is one thing, doing another.

George Bernard Shaw

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Aesop

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Jimmy Johnson

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Walking a tiger

In walking a tiger, use a long stick.

Mao Tse-Tung

Touche

In order to break the rules, one must first learn and understand them.

Marty Feldman

The pen is mighhtier than the sword and considerably easier to write with.

Bridgemaker best advise

Life's two most important questions are "Why?" and "Why not?". The trick is knowing which one to ask
Happiness is the ultimate risk
We flee from the truth in vain
The perfect is the enemy of the good
It's a poor idea to lie to oneself

Bridgemaker best advise

Forget regret
Ask for help
Believe you are worthy
Keep the faith
We are what we do
Perform one act of kindness daily
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid

Kachou Fuugetsu

hana no saku sekai ni inochi miru you ni
tori ga tobu shunkan jiyuu o kanjiru
kaze ni mimi o sumaseba toki ga arawarete
tsuki o miru kokoro ni seijaku ga oriru

neko ni katsuobushi

Saru mo ki kara ochiru
nito wo ou mono wa itto wo mo ezu
daido shoi
jigou jitoku
kaden rika

Neko ni koban

nanakorobi yaoki.
mikka bozu
ishi no ue ni san nen

mizu ni nagasu

; - )

Anzuru yori umu ga yasashi

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

Do your best

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Og Mandino

27 Nov 2011

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

d'eau a coulé sous les ponts

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.


Ike Turner

Take charge

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

Once you read this

Everything is the same only different.

I'm not going to argue, but I'm right!

Remember the rules : heads I win, tails you lose.

Once you read this, you will already have read it.

Jewish Proverb

What you are is God's gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God.

Take the risk

Take risks:
If you win, you will be happy;

if you lose, you will be wise.

seek that which is

Leave that which is not, but appears to be
Seek that which is, but is not apparent

heart

My heart is so small
it is almost invisible.
How can you place
such a big sorrow in it?

"Look" he answered,
"Your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world"

Rumi

Winston Churchill

Winston, you are disgustingly drunk.

and you, Madam, are ugly. But in the morning I shall be sober..................

Winston Churchill

Winston, if I were your wife, I'd would poison your tea.

Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

William Ward

The mediocre tells
The good explains
The superior demonstrates
The great inspires

XXX

When someone quotes the old poetic image about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings of your robe.

Like this.

If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual wanting will look,

lift your face and say,

Like this.

When lovers moan, they’re telling our story.

Like this

wisdom of the ages

You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, assuming you want to catch flies.

phrase of the day

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.

♥♥♥

COME! Let's fall in love again... let's turn all the dirt in this world to shiny gold ♥

Saadi

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell...
but that friend may hereafter become an enemy.
And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he ...
may one day become your friend.

11.11.11

You need to deal with things as they are and not as you wish them to be.

the treasure

how can I ever put a price on the diamond that you are
you...the entire treasure of the house

Rumi

Study me as much as you like, you will never know me,
for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.

Epictetus

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

Jennifer Welwood

Each condition I flee from pursues me
each condition I welcome transforms me
and becomes itself transformed.

Turning to face my fear
I meet the warrior who lives within

Wabi Sabi

Nothing is perfect, nothing last, nothing is finished

Basho

Don't follow the footsteps of the wise, seek what they sought.

Cha Bu

In the pursuit of happiness some will overindulge themselves to their own detriment.
Are there a need for pleasures in material things which are impermanent.

I thought

I thought a thought that I thought I had thought but the thought that I had thought wasn't the thought that I had thought I had thought so maybe if I had thought the thought that I thought I thought I wouldn't of thought so much.

A very important notice

If you have noticed this notice you will have noticed that this notice is not worth noticing.

Rumi say

Every moment contains a hundred messages from Him. To every cry, He will answers 100 times. " I am here."

Muhammad Agus Syafi

Dalam perjalanan hidup ini, sering akan ada yang melempar "batu" yang membuat kita perih terluka. Apakah yang kita lakukan terhadap batu batu itu.

Adakah kita akan membangun dinding derita atau jembatan menuju kebahagiaan.

31 Oct 2011

When you approach Him in prosperity, He will know you in adversity.
Know that what has passed you by was not going to befall you, and
what has befallen you was not going to pass you by.
Victory comes with patience, relief with affliction and ease with hardship.

Robert Brault

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane

Polish proverb

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. 

Zen saying

Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.

Edward Murrow

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, take longer.

Aesop

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Thomas a Kempis

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Age and truth

Young minds love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds  love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature minds finally love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

Idealists' delusion

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are significantly better than the other causes in the world; they do not want to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all, it needs exactly the same foul-smelling manure that all other human undertakings require.

Nietzsche

Cai Gen Tan

People of this world put themselves in chains for the sake of gain and fame,
Then talk of the world of dust, the sea of bitterness.
They do not know that:
Clouds are white, mountains green.
Rivers run, rocks stand erect,
Blossoms invite, birds chirp merrily.
The valley responds, the woodcutters sing,
This world, again, is not of dust;
The sea, again, is not bitter,
It is only that, on their own, they put dust and bitterness in their hearts.

La Rochefoucauld

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

Secret

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last for ever.

La Rochefoucauld

Sally Koch

Great opportunities to help others seldom come but small ones surround us every day.

Andre Malraux

The truth about a man is, first of all, what it is that he keeps hidden.

Antisthenes

Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Law no 18

Do not build fortresses to protect yourself. Isolation is dangerous.

Law no 13

When asking for help, appeal to people's self interests, never to their mercy or gratitude.

Law no 12

Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim.

Steve Jobs

It is better to be a pirate than to join the navy.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Don't be trapped by dogma...which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Don't let the noise of other's opinion drown out your own.

Stay hungry, stay foolish

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Steve Jobs

Duke of Wellington say

The wise learn when they can, fools learn when they must.

Megas Alexandros say

Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Megas Alexandros say

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep, but I am afraid of an army of sheeps led by a lion.

Think Different (1955-2011)

You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Steven Paul Jobs

The elusive robber

There is one robber whom the law has no power over it and who steal what is most precious to men.

Napolean Bonaparte

Napolean Bonaporte say

The word impossible is not inside my dictionary.

Law no 4

Always say less than necessary.

Law no 1

Never outshine the Master.

Robert Greene

Assume Formlessnes

Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot.

Bruce Lee

S.A Sachs say

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.

Jackson Brown say

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

English proverb

Do not fall before you are pushed.

Howard Ruff say

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Ta'ai Ken T'an say

Water which is to pure has no fish.

Joseph Joubert say

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up.

George Orwell say

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

On losing

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Chinese proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Swedish proverb

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more;
hate less, love more; and all good things are yours

Baltasar Gracian say

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin say

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Robert Brault say

Every day is conquerable by its hours and every hour by its minutes.

Robert Frost say

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Best advise on promises

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

George R Kirkpatrick

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with.
Ever since than man's success or failure has been dependent on
the one he used most.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Charles Dicken

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurt.

Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Jonathan Kozel

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Pope John

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

Go Forth

I am the new American pioneer, looking forward, never back.
No longer content to wait for better times.
I will work for better times.
'Cause no one built this country in suits.
All I need is all I got. Bruises heal.
Stink is good. And apathy is death.
So I strike up for the new world!
A newer mightier world. The one I will make to my liking,
for after the darkness comes the dawn.
There is a better tomorrow.
Look across the plains and mountains and see America's
the world's eternal promise. A promise of progress.
Go forth with me. Go forth!

Levi's Go Forth ad campaign.

Just Do It

Do not resist chances. Take them like vitamins.
Let go of the brakes. See what happens if you go five more miles.
Footbridges be damned, find your own way across.
Don't worry about the bumps and bruises.Your body can take them.
Don't steer around the bits that scare you, go over them, go through them.
You feel your chin rise up from your chest, and you'll be able to see what's
around you. What's ahead of you.
And there will be one less thing you cannot do.
JUST DO IT.

Nike just do it ad campaign.

Yesterday you said tomorrow

All your life you are told the things you cannot do.
All your life they will say you're not good enough
or strong enough or talented enough.
They'll say you're the wrong height or the wrong
weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or
achieve this.
They will tell you no, a thousand times no until all
the no's become meaningless.
All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and
very quickly. They will tell you no.
And you will tell them yes.

Nike ad campaign.

Impossible is nothing

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men
who find it easier to live in the world they have been given
than to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion.
Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.
Impossible is nothing.

Adidas impossible is nothing ad campaign.

The frog's view

A frog in a well says, "The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well." 

Mao's red book

We must learn to look at problems all-sidedly, seeing the reverse as well as the obverse side of things. In given conditions, a bad thing can lead to good results and a good thing to bad results.

Mao's red book

What we need is an enthusiastic but calm state of mind and intense but orderly work.

Pharoah's dream

In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile, when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds. After them, seven other cows came up, scrawny and very ugly and lean. The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.

In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk. After them, seven other heads sprouted, withered and thin and scorched by the east wind. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads.

Change starts with you

These are not easy times, but they are our times.
Together, there is nothing we can't do - or undo.

Levi's go forth campaign

Great acts are made of small deeds.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Lao tzu

Ramadan

Silent tears falling down my cheeks
As I watch you walk away
My heart beckons to you
Not to leave me once again
How I wish you didn't have to go
How I wish it wasn't so..

Les Passantes

Je veux dédier ce poème
A toutes les femmes qu'on aime
Pendant quelques instants secrets
A celles qu'on connait à peine
Qu'un destin différent entraîne
Et qu'on ne retrouve jamais

Mais si l'on a manqué sa vie
On songe avec un peu d'envie
A tous ces bonheurs entrevus
Aux baisers qu'on n'osa pas prendre
Aux cœurs qui doivent vous attendre
Aux yeux qu'on n'a jamais revus

Antoine Pol

Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux

Mon bel amour mon cher amour ma déchirure
Je te porte dans moi comme un oiseau blessé
Et ceux-là sans savoir nous regardent passer
Répétant après moi les mots que j'ai tressés
Et qui pour tes grands yeux tout aussitôt moururent
Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux


Il n'y a pas d'amour qui ne soit à douleur
Il n'y a pas d'amour dont on ne soit meurtri
Il n'y a pas d'amour dont on ne soit flétri
Et pas plus que de toi l'amour de la patrie
Il n'y a pas d'amour qui ne vive de pleurs
Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux
Mais c'est notre amour à tous les deux


Louis Aragon

The Laughing hearts

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.

Charles Bukowski

Indian proverbs

No one will ever get lost on a straight road.

Ashtavakra Gita

The wave, seething and foaming is only water.
A piece of cloth, it is only threads.

No water, no moon

In this way and that I tried to save the old pail
Since the bamboo strip was weakening and about to break
Until at last the bottom fell out.
No more water in the pail!
No more moon in the water!

When you are sitting

Sit and focus on your breathing. Breate in and breathe out.
Inhale,  we receive  and exhale, we let go.
Through the fluidity of our breathe we will realize that nothing remain the same,
everything will change. Nothing is permanent.

Don't worry be happy

Don't worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
when you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy

Best Act

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

Best Act

I am like a traveller, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Best Act

Conduct yourself in this world, as if you are here to stay forever;
prepare for eternity as if you have to die tomorrow

If its yours

What is for you will reach you, even if it be underneath two mountains. What is not for you, will not reach you, even if it be between your two lips

Best act

Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.

preparation for a fight

It is not the size of the dog in the fight,
It is the size of the fight in the dog.

This is life

If your faults become too much in front of the people
And you wish that they were to be concealed,

Then know that kindness covers all faults
And how many faults are kept hidden by kindness!

This is life

Your provision will not be lessened due to life’s delays
And it cannot be increased due to your haste

If, in your heart, you possess contentment
Then you and those who possess the world are equal

This is life

Don’t be afraid of what happens by night
For the affairs of this world are not to last

No sadness lasts forever, nor any happiness
And you shall not remain in poverty, or any luxury

Sacred duty

To remove any broken glass from the path .

Shafi'i

No fault has time but only us.

Aeschylus say

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Irish saying

Never forget what is worth remembering nor ever remember what is best forgotten.

Wendell Phillips

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.

Winston C

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

Kahlil G

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

Shakespeare

All that glitters is not gold
Oft have you heard that told
Many a  man his life hath sold

Shakespeare

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,

Hannibal say

We will either find a way or make one.

preparation for a fight

Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered,
those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid.

Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.

Zhuge Liang

Ramadan

To night I heard a knock on my door;
Who can it be,I wasn't quite sure.

I open the door and am filled with glee;
The visitor ahead is no stranger to me.

I welcome the guest with utmost delight;
For I know it has come to give me respite.

Now an air of happiness fills the space;
My home now seems, a better place!

Pearl & May

Love story

If I didn't met you, than I wouldn't have like you. If I didn't like you, than I wouldn't have love you. If I didn't love you, than I wouldn't have miss you.

Desire

Once I had a thousand desires..but in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

Rumi

You

You think you are the trouble...when you are the cure
You think you are the lock on the door...when you are the key

Rumi

Thus while the days flew by

Thus while the days flew by, and years passed on,
From Nature and her overflowing soul,
I had received so much, that all my thoughts
Were steeped in feeling; I was only then
Contented, when with bliss ineffable
I felt the sentiment of Being spread
O’er all that moves and all that seemeth still;
O’er all that, lost beyond the reach of thought
And human knowledge, to the human eye
Invisible, yet liveth to the heart;

Lao Tzu say

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Peter Strup say

Time only seems to matter when it's running out.

Mark Twain say

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

Henry Ford say

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Fred Barnard say

A picture is worth ten thousand words.

Fan Li say

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Bai wen bu ru yi jian

If you know, recognize that you know. If you don't know, then realize that you don't know.

Seeing it once is better than being told 100 times.

An inch of time is an inch of gold, but an inch of gold can't buy an inch of time.

Classic

For the people prefer that which you prefer for yourself. That which you do not wish for yourself do not impose on others.

Bless those who says less and does more

Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say, and what you think.

Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

Abu Bakr al-siddiq

Intentions count in your actions.

Diogenes say

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Epictetus say

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Epictetus say

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

The Covenant

I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud

Diogenes say

I have nothing to ask but that you would move to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Mahabharata

Cleverness does not always lead to gain nor stupidity to poverty.

The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, burned by any fire, moistened by water, withered by the wind.

Ramayana

If you are giving away the elephant but your heart is set on the rope used for tying the elephant...of what use is the attachment to the rope when you are giving away the elephant itself.

I Hope You Dance

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,
May you never take one single breath for granted,
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed,
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

On Beauty

After a deep silence, mingled with sweet dreams, I asked, "Speak to me of that beauty which the people interpret and define, each one according to his own conception; I have seen her honored and worshipped in different ways and manners."

She answered, "Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive. When you meet Beauty, you feel that the hands deep within your inner self are stretched forth to bring her into the domain of your heart. It is the magnificence combined of sorrow and joy; it is the Unseen which you see, and the Vague which you understand, and the Mute which you hear ."

Kahlil G

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. The destination is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life...though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.

Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times
In life after life, in age after age, forever
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms
In life after life, in age after age, forever

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Tagore

The Singer

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears
One man opens his mouth to sing, the other sings in his mind
Only when waves fall on the shore do they make a harmonious sound
Only when breezes shake the woods do we hear a rustling in the leaves
Only from a marriage of two forces does music arise in the world
Where there is no love, where listeners are dumb, there never can be song.

Tagore

When I sing to make you dance

When I sing to make you dance
I truly now why there is music in leaves,
and why waves send their chorus of  voices
to the heart of the listening earth

Extract from Tagore Colored Toys

Pierce Beaumarchin say

It is not necessary to understand, or believe, things in order to argue about them.

Margaret Millar say

Most conversation are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

George Bernard Shaw say

We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.

La Bella Donna

poem by Amanda Nicole Martinez

German Proverb

The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.

Perfect

I am nobody. Nobody is perfect. Therefore I am perfect.

George Burns say

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything...
You only have to remember it.

Kahlil G

Of life's two prizes, beauty and truth,

I found the first in a loving heart and

the second in a laborer's hand

Kahlil G

All that spirits desire, spirits attain

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of the snobs

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she give a philosopher to speak her mind

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death

Kahlil G

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother

And it has been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation

Singapore Navy

Experience knows the weather always changes. A purposeful leader ensures the calm never does.

Joy lives concealed in grief

Joy lives concealed in grief.
Look for the answer inside your question

Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love

Heartsick, heartbroken…To know love is to know pain.
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.

O you whose lips are parched...

O you whose lips are parched, keep looking for water.

Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful.
Look at love and at the aim of your quest...

Whispers of the Beloved

I cannot sleep in your presence.
In your absence, tears prevent me.

Rumi

The Master who’s full of sweetness
Is so drunk with love, he’s oblivious.
“Will you give me some of your sweetness?”
“I have none,” he says, unaware of his richness.

Rumi

Looking at my life
I see that only Love
Has been my soul’s companion
From deep inside
My soul cries out:
Do not wait, surrender
For the sake of Love.
If you can’t smell the fragrance
Don’t come into the garden of Love.
If you’re unwilling to undress
Don’t enter into the stream of Truth.
Stay where you are.
Don’t come our way.

Rumi

Do you know what the music is saying?
“Come follow me and you will find the way.
Your mistakes can also lead you to the Truth.
When you ask, the answer will be given.”

Translated by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Koln

Plato say

your silence gives consent

Buddha say

Be lamps unto yourselves.

E B White say

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Yoda say

Is it. It is. Much to learn you still have.

Kahlil G

Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life,

your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

It is the bitter potion by which you heals yourself, so drink the remedy.

They say that if one understands himself, he understands all people.

But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore

but let there be spaces in your togetherness.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and

we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

When you are the flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.

Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee?

let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth

and breadth and height
my soul can reach.

I love thee to the level

of everyday's most quiet need,

by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely,

as men strive for Right.
I love thee with the passion

put to use in my old griefs,

and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love

I seemed to lose
with my lost saints,

I love thee with the breath,
smiles, tears, of all my life!

and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee

better after death.

Louis Armstrong

Hold me close and hold me fast
The magic spell you cast
This is la vie en rose

When you kiss me heaven sighs
And tho I close my eyes
I see la vie en rose

When you press me to your heart
I’m in a world apart
A world where roses bloom

And when you speak...angels sing from above
Everyday words seem...to turn into love songs

Give your heart and soul to me
And life will always be
La vie en rose

Rumi say

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? 

Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support

Wedatama

Marma den taberi kulup
Angulah lantiping ati
Rina wengi den anedya
Pandak panduking pambudi
Bengkas kahardaning driya
Supaya dadya utami

Wedatama

Si pengung nora nglegewa
Sangsayarda denira cacariwis
Ngandhar-andhar angendhukur
Kandhane nora kaprah
Saya elok alangka longkanganipun
Si wasis waskhita ngalah
Ngalingi marang si pingging

Plato say

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Buddha say

Everything is like the dew in the morning. A wise man will cross over his delusion and ignorance.

E B White say

Be obscure clearly.

Yoda say

Do or do not...there is no try.

Do the slow dance

Have you ever listened to the rain falling to the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift thrown away
Life is not a race
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

Anonymous

La bella donna

Japanese proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Jeff Cooper say

Man fights with his mind.

surprises

There will always be suprises. So have a plan B and plan C.

Ashtavakra Gita

The fool tries to control his mind, how can he ever succeed?. Mastery always comes naturally to the man who is wise and who loves himself.

Diane Morgan say

Wisdom, however, is a curious being. She doesn't reside in one mind, in one time, or in one place. She's capricious, whimsical, and full of humor. She's freakish.

Sometimes she hides so deeply that only years of serious study can ferret her out. At other times, she appears unbidden, like a wayward child, when you least expect her.

Sometimes you glimpse her from far off, shining in the stars. In more domestic moods, she reposes in a card layout on your kitchen table, in a swirl of water, in your daughter's eyes.

Sometimes she vanishes altogether, and makes you curse the day you sought her out. She may reappear, however, an hour later, in the chance remark of your next-door neighbor.

She doesn't prefer one people, one climate, or one direction to another.

Extracts from samurai words and other great quotes

The ending

It is not exciting if the end is known.

Erasmus say

Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Shakespeare say

To thine own self be true.

George Bernard Shaw say

Some look at things that are and ask "Why?". I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"

A zen master say

If I tell you the answer, I'll cheat you of a learning experience.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine say

If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! and with all your might! make them hear you.

W Somerset Maughan say

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

Ralph Waldo emerson say

Each moment of the year has its own beauty, a picture which has never been seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Mark Strand say

Each moment is a place we have never been.

Dickens say

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness;

it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness;

it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us;

we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.

Estella

'So,' said Estella, 'I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.'

Tolstoy say

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

If you want to be happy, be.

Believer

When one person believe, he's a fool.
When one hundred people believe, they are idiots.
When ten thousand people believe, that's faith.

Jack Ma (Alibaba founder)

Clenched fist

Clenched your hand, it's a fist. Open your hand, it's a palm. We can only receive and give with an open palm.

Turning away

Do you know how far is the distance when we decided to turn away from each other and never look back.

Once around the earth. 

Turn your back and if we ever want to see each other again we have to go round the earth; that's how far it becomes.

Quotes from drama

If you are too lazy to look for the truth than you have no right to blame the person who lies.

What happens in life isn't determined by us. What we can determined is how we want to live and what attitude we want to live with.

Ritual

Ritual involving strenous and/or repetitive physical movements are meant
to free the mind of all frivolous thoughts and divert the focus to the point
of one-midedness or absolute concentration.

Jin Kwon

Seek a sanctuary

Seek a sanctuary. Respect it, as it is holy.
Walk into it with a bare mind, bare feet and plain clothing.
Nurtute your body, mind and spirit through a healing ritual.
Leave it with a pure heart until you find your way to it again.

Jin Kwon

Nicholas Sparks say

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can; and just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Immanuel Kant say

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant say

To be is to do.

What can I know? What ought I do? What can I hope?

Schopenhaeur say

Boredom is just the reverse of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than insde a situation, and one leads to the other.

Schopenhauer say

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Karl Marx say

Reason has always existed but not always in a reasonable form.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Karl Marx say

Religion is the opium of the people.

Of Song Never Sung



Quality of a fool

Anger without Cause
Speech without profit
Trust in strangers
Inquiry without object
Change without Motive
Inability to tell the difference between friend and foe

The truth

There is a grain of truth in every lies.

Live for the Moment.

Our acts and thoughts and all must be determined by circumstances. Will when you may, for time and tide wait for no man. Do not live by certain fixed rules, except those that relate to the cardinal virtues. Nor let your will subscribe fixed conditions, for you may have to drink the water to-morrow which you cast away to-day. There be some so absurdly paradoxical that they expect all the circumstances of an action should bend to their eccentric whims and not vice versâ. The wise man knows that the very polestar of prudence lies in steering by the wind.

Share your troubles

You will never be all alone, even in dangers. Some think by their high position to carry off the whole glory of success, and have to bear the whole humiliation of defeat. In this way they have none to excuse them, none to share the blame. 
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

Know how to Appreciate

There is none who cannot teach somebody something. To know how to make use of every one is useful knowledge. Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good. 

The Lie

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity. Yet not all truths can be spoken: some for our own sake, others for the sake of others.

Have Knowledge

Without intelligence, either one's own or another's, true life is impossible. But many do not know that they do not know, and many think they know when they know nothing. Failings of the intelligence are incorrigible, since those who do not know, do not know themselves, and cannot therefore seek what they lack. Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise. Thus it happens that though the oracles of wisdom are rare, they are rarely used. To seek advice does not lessen greatness or argue incapacity. On the contrary, to ask advice proves you well advised. Take counsel with reason it you do not wish to court defeat.

Be careful in Speaking.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. Secrecy has some of the lustre of the divine. He who speaks lightly soon falls or fails.

Prize Intensity more than Extent.

Excellence resides in quality not in quantity. The best is always few and rare: much lowers value.

We are not born perfect.

Every day we develop our personality and our calling till we reach the highest point, to the full round of our accomplishments, of our excellences to be the complete man; wise in speech, prudent in act.

The purity of taste, the clearness of thought, the maturity of judgment, and the firmness of will.

Some never arrive at being complete; some is always awanting; some ripen late.

Thorn Bird

There was a bird who sang just once in its life.

From the moment it left its nest, it searched for a thorn tree.

and it never rested until it found one.

Then it began to sing more sweetly

than any other creature on the face of the earth.

And singing, it impaled its breast on the longest, sharpest thorn.

But as it was dying, it rose above its own agony

to out-sing the lark and the nightingale.

The thorn bird pays its life for that one song

and the whole world stills to listen

and God, in His heaven ~smiles.

As its best was bought only at the cost of great pain.

Driven to the thorn, with no knowledge of the dying to come.

Funny Sarcasm

Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

Ham and eggs. A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

Oracle

Oracle: OK, now I'm supposed to say, "Hmm, that's interesting, but... " then you say...
Neo: ..."but what?"
Oracle: But... you already know what I'm going to tell you.
Neo: I'm not The One.
Oracle: Sorry, kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something.
Neo: What?
Oracle: Your next life, maybe. Who knows? That's the way these things go.

The spoon boy

Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.

Trinity

I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.

Morpheus

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

Hmmm...

You may think that in life, a lot of things happen to you along the way. The truth is, in life, you happen to a lot of things along the way.

Pay it forward

Dear Sir,

I received yours of the 15th Instant, and the Memorial it inclosed. The account they give of your situation grieves me. I send you herewith a Bill for Ten Louis d'ors. I do not pretend to give such a Sum; I only lend it to you.

When you shall return to your Country with a good Character, you cannot fail of getting into some Business, that will in time enable you to pay all your Debts. In that Case, when you meet with another honest Man in similar Distress, you must pay me by lending this Sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the Debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with another opportunity.

I hope it may thus go thro' many hands, before it meets with a Knave that will stop its Progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money. I am not rich enough to afford much in good works, and so am obliged to be cunning and make the most of a little.

With best wishes for the success of your Memorial, and your future prosperity, I am, dear Sir, your most obedient servant,

B. Franklin.

Pay it forward

We all complain, but most of us have it pretty easy. Sure, there are rough spots along the way. It happens to all of us. Why not help out someone who's going through a rough spot?

Do one little deed today to help someone- a loved one, a neighbor, a co-worker, or a complete stranger. Just one tiny gesture each day. If everyone did this, imagine the effect on the entire world.

Albert Camus say

Life is a sum of all your choices.

Stephen Covey say

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

William James say

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Buddha say

Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Einstein say

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

Goethe say

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Kahlil Gibran say

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Confucius say

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Denis Waitley say

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes are called EXPERIENCE.


If we learn from it, it may leads us to success...

Paul Coelho say

In this life we have to experience anything once because as Paul Coelho say


" People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves".

Moon, plum blossoms

The Tides of Providence

It's not what you gather, but what you sow,
That gives the heart a warming glow.
It's not what you get, but what you give,
Decides the kind of life you live.

It's not what you have, but what you spare.
It's not what you take, but what you share
That pays the greater dividend
And makes you richer in the end.

It's not what you spend upon yourself
Or hide away upon a shelf,
That brings a blessing for the day.
It's what you scatter by the way.

A wasted effort it may seem.
But what you cast upon the stream
Comes back to you recompense
Upon the tides of providence.

Patience Strong

Strength and courage

It takes strength to be firm,
It takes courage to be gentle.

It takes strength to conquer,
It takes courage to surrender.

It takes strength to be certain,
It takes courage to have doubt.

It takes strength to fit in,
It takes courage to stand out.

5 weaknesses of leaders

1. A Reckless Leader Might Get Killed

2. A Cowardly Leader Might Get Captured

3. A Temperamental Leader Might Easily Be Provoked

4. A Megalomaniac Leader Might Easily Fall Victim To Slander

5. A Submissive Leader Might Be Disappointed

Man - a being in search of meaning

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. 

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Plato

Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Planning for Success

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base with your foot on first base.
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

proverbs

He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

proverbs

He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Never explain

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you.
Elbert Hubbard

Art of Timing

There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Octavia Butler

Friend

A friend is one
To whom one may pour out all
The contents of one's heart
Chaff and grain, together,
Knowing that the gentlest of hands
Will take and sift it,
Keep what's worth keeping
And blow the rest away.

Dinah Craik

Out of Solitude

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

Trailblazers

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey not the arrival matters.
TS Elliot

Not all those who wander are lost.
JRR Tolkien

Quotes on Travel

One destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller

A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Loa Tzu

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
St Augustine

The Five Laws Of Gold

5. Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment.

The Five Laws Of Gold

4. Gold slippeth away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those skilled in its keeping.

The Five Laws Of Gold

3. Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of wise men in its handling

The Five Laws Of Gold

2. Gold laboreth diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks of the field.

The Five Laws Of Gold

1. Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.

Babylonian wisdom

Wisdom

Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Solomon

Knowing And Seeing

We never see anything completely...We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree.

Krishnamurti