Muhammad Agus Syafi

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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