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Monday, March 12, 2007

Quotes

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I've just put some quotes in this posting for helping me when I feel drop and need some extra supplement.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Experience shows that the spirit is nothing but awareness. Whoever has greater awareness has greater spirit.
-- Jalaluddin Rumi

Life is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
-- Horace Walpole

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
-- Voltaire

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
-- Dave Tyson Gentry

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
-- Japanese Proverb

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!
-- Bob Richards

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
-- James Joyce

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that i stay with problems longer.
-- Albert Einstein

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
-- Amy Tan

There is no greater distance than between a man in prayer and God.
-- Ivan Illich

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
-- Wally Amos

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
-- Sir John Lubbock

The way to love anything is to realise that it may be lost.
-- Gibert K. Chesterton

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.
-- Mark Twain

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
-- Salma Hayek

I have learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

-- Oprah Winfrey

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-- Mother Teresa

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.
-- Brian Tracy

A worried person sees a problem, a concerned person solves it.
-- Harold Stevens

The trust greatness lies in being kind, the trust wisdom in a happy mind.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
-- George Bernard Shaw

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier

I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein


Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
-- Ambrose Bierce

Although we love the idea of choice, we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
-- Hugh Mackay

A mother understands what a child does not say.
-- Anonymous

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
-- Beverly Nichols

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

The hardest challenge is to be your self in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
-- EE Cummings

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.
-- France Larrieu Smith

If what you are working for really matters, you will give it all you have got.
-- Nido Qubein

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.
-- Albert Schweitzer

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
-- Peter F Drucker

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
-- Anton Chekov

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
-- James Allen

Believe life is worth living and your believe will help create the fact.
-- William James

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
-- George S Patton

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
-- Laurence J. Peter

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
-- Hugh Mackay

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
-- Oscar Wilde

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
-- Josh Billings

When we can't have what we love, we must love what we have.
-- Roger de Bussy

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
-- George S Patton

If a drop of water falls in a lake there is no identity. But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shines like a pearl. So choose the best place where you can shine.
-- Anonymous

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
-- James Baldwin

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
-- Oscar Wilde

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
-- Leo Burnett

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
-- Stendhal

If you're going through hell, keep going.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
-- Publilius Syrus

All charming people have something to conceal, ussualy their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
-- Cyril Connolly

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success-yours or his.
-- Franklin P Jones

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
-- Franklin D Roosevelt

It is the friends you can call up at four in the morning that matter.
-- Marlene Dietrich

People always call it luck when you have acted more sensibly than they have.
-- Anne Tyler

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
-- Sir Philip Sidney

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

-- Herbert Bayard Swope

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
-- Havelock Ellis

If a man does his best, what else is there?

-- George S Patton

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 live.

-- Albert Camus

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-- George Washington Carver

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
-- Daniel Boorstin

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
-- Anonymous

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.
-- Tom Connelly

All things come to him who waits-provided he knows what he is waiting for.
-- Woodrow T Wilson

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us. What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.
-- Leo Buscaglia

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

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
-- Booker T Washington

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
-- Stephen Covey

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
-- Napoleon Hill

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth.
-- Chinese Proverb

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
-- Martin Luther King

If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
-- Mother Teresa

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
-- Laurence J Peter

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
-- Ivan Illich

The difference between the impossible and possible lies in determination.
-- Tommy Lassorda

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
-- Anonymous

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
-- Aldous Huxley

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-- Margaret Cho

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
-- JK Rowling

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
-- Rita Mae Brown

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
-- Michael Masser

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
-- Samuel Johnson

I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Alva Edison

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein

Leadership does not depend on being right.
-- Ivan Illich

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
-- Mother Teresa

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
-- Jesse Jackson

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
-- William Somerset Maugham

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
-- Brandy Snyder

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
-- Anonymous

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
-- Confucius

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

-- Ashleigh

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks de-generating into obsession, friendship is never any-thing but sharing.
-- Elie Wiesel

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
-- Pete Seeger

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine

I have sometimes thought of marrying, and then I have thought again.
-- Noel Coward

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

If God puts you to it, he sees you through it.
-- Anonymous

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-- Plato

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
-- Benjamin Franklin

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra

If you love life, life will love you back.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
-- James A Baldwin

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
-- Victor Hugo

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
-- Marcel Proust

The end comes when we no longer talk with our selves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
-- Edward Gibbon

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
-- Anita Brookner

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
-- Tryon Edwards

You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!
-- Anonymous

View life as a continuous learning experience.
-- Denis Waitley

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
-- Rita Mae Brown

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
-- H Jackson

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
-- William James

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
-- Alan Watts

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Slow down and enjoy life. It is not only the scenery you miss by going too fast, you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
-- Eddie Cantor

These quotes also can makes you feel positive when you feel down

UPDATE:
PS: Siapa yang punya koleksi quotes yang inspiring bagi-bagi lah disini.

13 comments:

just Endang said...

Wow ! Banyak bangeeet...rajin banget ngumpulinnya nih...yah, apapun kondisi mas Joni skrg, mudah2an semakin kuat dan bijak dibantu sama "kata mutiara" itu ya...

pyuriko said...

Bagus2.... di save acchhh, siapa tahu nantinya berguna...

Tambahin satu yaaa:
Inspirasi tidak selalu mudah didapat, namu inspirasi tersebut dapat diraih

endik said...

what a quotes om...!

for me, i just need a few of tobaccos and cloves, and also a cup of coffee to refresh my mind and mood when i am down.

simple enough but a kind of bad habit ya om...:(

NiLA Obsidian said...

hebad euy....koleksi quotenya....
di copy ahhhh....

kadang kalo lagi jenuh, butuh juga baca ginian buat penambah semangad..tapi pas lg ada masalah...lupa mau prakteknya...haha

Anonymous said...

Lengkap banget.... mau yaa di copy.

Anonymous said...

settt mas...banyak banget!!!

When we can't have what we love, we must love what we have--->ini yang paling aku suka=)

Anang said...

banyak banget....

Anonymous said...

banyak amat sih joooon.... pusiiiiinggg.... huuaaaa....:((

Anonymous said...

@endang withnadina: thanks mbak, emang seperti yang dibilang hazrat inayat khan: 'kalimat yang mencerahkan jiwa itu lebih berharga dari intan permata. :)
@pyuriko: bener banget iko. ;)
@kawoela alit: =))itu philosophy-nya para perokok :P .. aku juga dulu seperti itu, rokok adalah teman sejati dikala sepi dan sedih :D
ya tiap orang beda2 cara pelampiasannya.. betul itu termasuk bad habit.. aku dulu perokok berat juga mas, karena disini aku bisa berhenti, habis gak ada yang jual a-mild disini. :((
@nila obsidian: ya mudah2an bermanfaat dan bisa dipraktekan. ;)
@nuha: silahkan. :)
@mei: sama. ;)
@anang: :D
@venus: kenapa pusing mbok.. masih hiatus neh? :P

Anonymous said...

wuih...byk amirrrrr, udah kembali bersemangat yah? ato karna ngilangin kesel? :D
tp bagusan jg meski gi kesel msh bisa bagi2 kebaikan buat orang laen lewat quote...bravo joni

Er Maya said...

quote-nya boljug mas buat motivasi/inspirasi jiwa2 yang lagi kering :)

endik said...

wahaha.. berhenti merokok gara gara nggak ada rokok...? :D kayak disiksa ya..?
ada cerita seorang pengusaha muda di Amrik balik ke Indonesia gara gara kehabisabn gudang garam surya.. :D gila juga ya

Anonymous said...

@jeng kenny: thanks jeng, ini juga sekalian arsip buat diri sendiri. ;)
@maya: yup, Allah SWT kan maha membolak-balikkan hati seseorang.. lumayan buat renungan. :)
@kawoela alit: hahaha.. iya awalnya berat juga, karena udah kadung janji sama istri dan mumpung disini jadi dipaksakan untuk bisa.. :)
emang bener juga, temen2 disini Dji Sam Soe harganya 21 ribu aja dibeli. :D