Thought 01NOV2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (8 of 10)
[Mediate Regularly]
Meditation calms the mind and gets rid of disturbing thoughts. This is the highest state of peace of mind. Try and experience it yourself. If you meditate earnestly for half an hour everyday, your mind will tend to become peaceful during the remaining twenty-three and half-hours. Your mind will not be easily disturbed as it was before. You would benefit by gradually increasing the period of daily meditation. You may think that this will interfere with your daily work. On the contrary, this will increase your efficiency and you will be able to produce better results in less time.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
A good name will shine forever - Unknown

Thought 29OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (7 of 10)
[Do Not Bite off More Than You Can Chew]
This maxim needs to be remembered constantly. We often tend to take more responsibilities than we are capable of carrying out. This is done to satisfy our ego. Know your limitations. Why take on additional loads that may create more worries? You cannot gain peace of mind by expanding your external activities. Reduce your material engagements and spend time in prayer, introspection and meditation. This will reduce those thoughts in your mind that make you restless. Uncluttered mind will produce greater peace of mind.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says : "Leave no stone unturned." - Edward Bulwer Lytton

Thought 28OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (6 of 10)
[Endure What Cannot Be Cured]
This is the best way to turn a disadvantage into an advantage. Every day we face numerous inconveniences, ailments, irritations, and accidents that are beyond our control ... If we cannot control them or change them, we must learn to put up with these things. We must learn to endure them cheerfully. Believe in yourself and you will gain in terms of patience, inner strength and will power.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects - Alexis

Thought 27OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (5 of 10)
[Change Yourself According To The Environment]
If you try to change the environment single-handedly, the chances are you will fail. Instead, change yourself to suit your environment. As you do this, even the environment, which has been unfriendly to you, will mysteriously change and seem congenial and harmonious.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles - Washington Irving

Thought 26OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (4 of 10)
[Do Not Be Jealous]
We all have experienced how jealousy can disturb our peace of mind. You know that you work harder than your colleagues in the office, but sometimes they get promotions; you do not. You started a business several years ago, but you are not as successful as your neighbour whose business is only one year old. There are several examples like these in everyday life. Should you be jealous? No. Remember everybody's life is shaped by his/her destiny, which has now become his/her reality. If you are destined to be rich, nothing in the world can stop you. If you are not so destined, no one can help you either. Nothing will be gained by blaming others for your misfortune. Jealousy will not get you anywhere; it will only take away your peace of mind.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
He who knows not and not know he knows not is a fool - Unknown

Thought 25OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (3 of 10)
[Do Not Crave For Recognition]
This world is full of selfish people. They seldom praise anybody without selfish motives. They may praise you today because you are in power, but no sooner than you are powerless, they will forget your achievement and will start finding faults in you. Why do you wish to kill yours in striving for their recognition? Their recognition is not worth the aggravation. Do your duties ethically and sincerely.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here - John G. Whittier

Thought 22OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (2 of 10)
[Forgive and Forget]
This is the most powerful aid to peace of mind. We often develop ill feelings inside our heart for the person who insults us or harms us. We nurture grievances. This in turn results in loss of sleep, development of stomach ulcers, and high blood pressure. This insult or injury was done once, but nourishing of grievance goes on forever by constantly remembering it. Get over this bad habit. Life is too short to waste in such trifles. Forgive & Forget, and march on. Love flourishes in giving and forgiving.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
Life is a climb; but the view is great - Hannah Montana

Thought 21OCT2010

TEN PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE OF MIND (1 of 10)
[Do Not Interfere In Others' Business Unless Asked]
Most of us create our own problems by interfering too often in others' affairs. We do so because somehow we have convinced ourselves that our way is the best way, our logic is the perfect logic and those who do not conform to our thinking must be criticized and steered to the right direction, our direction. This thinking denies the existence of individuality and consequently the existence of God.. God has created each one of us in a unique way. No two human beings can think or act in exactly the same way. All men or women act the way they do because God within them prompts them that way. Mind your own business and you will keep your peace.
Source Unknown : Got this from Hanapiah Atan who got it from Hamdan Ibrahim
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration - Confucius

Thoughts 20OCT2010

The secret of life is to have a task. Something that you devote your entire life to, something to bring everything to, every minute of the day, for your whole life. And the important thing is, it must be something you can't possibly do - Unknown
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way - Unknown
Kindness is the kingpin of success in life; it is the prime factor in overcoming friction and making the human machinery run smoothly - Andrew Chapman

Thoughts 20OCT2010

The secret of life is to have a task. Something that you devote your entire life to, something to bring everything to, every minute of the day, for your whole life. And the important thing is, it must be something you can't possibly do - Unknown
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way - Unknown
Kindness is the kingpin of success in life; it is the prime factor in overcoming friction and making the human machinery run smoothly - Andrew Chapman

Thoughts 19OCT2010

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities - Gail Sheehy
Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable - Lance Morrow
Leadership is about magnetic communication. Leaders have a way of communicating that draws people toward the vision, and the horizon - Doug Firebaugh

Thoughts 18OCT2010

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners - Lord Chesterfield
Inspiration and genius - one and the same - Victor Hugo
A strong imagination begetteth opportunity - Michel de Montaigne

Thoughts 13OCT2010

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound - Herman Melville
Love is a verb as well as a noun. Love means a smile and never a frown. Love is to do and not just to feel. For unless you express it, love is never real - Unknown
Sometimes love has its ups and downs. Mostly though, there are more ups than downs and true love will weather any storm - Unknown

Thoughts 12OCT2010

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities - Aristotle
You must look into other people as well as at them - Lord Chesterfield
The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them - J. G. Holland

Thoughts 11OCT2010

There are no classes in life for beginners : right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult - Rainer Maria Rilke
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work - W. Humboldt
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it - Samuel Butler

Thoughts 08OCT2010

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other than we are. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done! - Henry Drummond
The truest view of life has always seemed to me to be that which shows that we are here not to enjoy, but to learn - Frederick William Robertson

Thoughts 07OCT2010

Throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness - Orison Swett Marden
Our small efforts at kindness can change people's lives more than we will ever know. Since it takes so little time and energy to change the world for the better, why not make an effort to do it every day? - Pat Williams
In the year ahead, may we treat our friends with kindness and our enemies with understanding - Unknown

Thoughts 06OCT2010

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters - Unknown
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable - Unknown
Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail - Unknown

Thoughts 05OCT2010

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction - Henry Ward Beecher
We make our fortunes, and we call them fate - Earl of Beaconsfield
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts 04OCT2010

The ladder of success may now be an elevator, but it's still self-service - Unknown
Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan - American Proverb
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man - Unknown