Thoughts 23DEC2011

No man is free who is not master of himself - Epictetus
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny - David O McKay
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him - Louis L Mann
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better - Anonymous

Thoughts 22DEC2011

As long as you live, keep learning how to live - Seneca
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date - Anonymous
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today - English Proverb
No one is perfect ... that’s why pencils have erasers - Author Unknown

Thoughts 21DEC2011

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be - Thomas a Kempis
Nothing endures but change - Heraclitus
You really can change the world if you care enough - Marion Wright Edelman
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect - Chinese Proverb

Apai's "Merisik & Bertunang" to Aliaa Aqilah

Aliaa Aqilah's Residence, Seksyen 8, Shah Alam
Saturday 17th December 2011

Apai & Aliaa : after the 'bertunang' With Hadi and Yameen (friends since London)

Apai's parents : Me and Prof Dr Hajah Dean Noormala

Aliaa's parents & sister : Haji Abu Bakar & Hajah Rohayah

After the 'sarong cincin'

"Mother-Out-Law" to beProf Dr Hajah Dean Mala "menyarung cincin pertunangan" Hadi & Yameen (pengantin lama)

The "buah tangan" and the "balasan buah tangan"

Next ?!?!?!?

The Spokeperson (Haji Zainal Abidin Saidun) and Me

Part of our entourage

Atuk "Dato' Haji Amir Ishak" and his cucus

Three siblings : Noor Roslinda, Noor Akmar & Noormala

The siblings : Apai, Ang, Yameen & Amel

Thoughts 20DEC2011

One cannot think crooked and walk straight - Anonymous
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart - Christy Borgeld
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated - Ernest Hemingway
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God - German Proverb

Thoughts 19DEC2011

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises - Demosthenes
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself - Soren Kierkegaard
A man of courage is also full of faith - Cicero
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change - Brian Tracy

Thoughts 16DEC2011

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment - Jim Rohn
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends - Czech Proverb
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out - Walter Winchell
The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have - Leonard Nimoy, American Actor, Director and Writer

Thoughts 15DEC2011

Never, never, never give up - Winston Churchill
He who lives without discipline dies without honor - Icelandic Proverb
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy - Bill Blackman
The way to succeed is to double your error rate - Thomas J. Watson

Thoughts 14DEC2011

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole - Anonymous
There is no luck except where there is discipline - Irish Proverb
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe - Anatole France
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on - Franklin D Roosevelt

Thoughts 13DEC2011

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly - Robert Schuller
He who seeks rest finds boredom ... He who seeks work finds rest - Anonymous
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gold cannot be pure and people cannot be perfect - Chinese Proverb

Thoughts 12DEC2011

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you - Rodney Dangerfield
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love - David McCullough
Friendship is not born of words alone - Armenian Proverb

Thoughts 09DEC2011

When you feel "dog tired" at night, it may be because you growled all day - Anonymous
Anger is a bad adviser - French Proverb
The best remedy for anger is delay - Brigham Young
Love understands all languages - Romanian Proverb

Thoughts 08DEC2011

It is possible to fail in many ways ... while to succeed is possible only in one way - Aristotle
May you live all the days of your life - Jonathan Swift
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power - Anonymous
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams - Anonymous

Thoughts 07DEC2011

All work is empty save when there is love - Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American Writer
Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret - Laurence J Peter
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were - Cherie Carter-Scott
We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Thoughts 06DEC2011

The grand essentials of happiness are : something to do, something to love, and something to hope for - Allan K. Chalmers
The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all - Leo Rosten, American Teacher and Humorist
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people - Anonymous

Thoughts 05DEC2011

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me - Carol Burnett
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best motivation always comes from within - Michael Johnson
No fate is worse than a life without a love - Mexican Proverb

Thoughts 02DEC2011

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others - Ghandi
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves - Helen Keller
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away - Persian Proverb

Thoughts 01DEC2011

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength - St Francis De Sales
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill - Anonymous
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon ... everything's different - Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

Thoughts 30NOV2011

Change your thoughts and you change your world - Norman Vincent Peale
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm - Winston Churchill
Just because you make a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake - Georgette Mosbacher
In love beggar and king are equal - Indian Proverb

Thoughts 29NOV2011

He that would be a leader must be a bridge - Welsh Proverb
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers - Ralph Nader
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own - Benjamin Disraeli

Thoughts 25NOV2011

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race -Don Marquis
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong - Thomas Szasz
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home - Bill Cosby

Thoughts 24NOV2011

Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream - Walloon Proverb
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one - Elbert Hubbard
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy - Anne Frank

Thoughts 23NOV2011

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely - Anonymous
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week - Anonymous
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done - Anonymous
A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting - Anonymous

Thoughts 22NOV2011

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded - Michael Johnson
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling - Margaret B Runbeck
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart - Helen Keller

Thought 21NOV2011

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good - Vaclav Havel
The only way to have a friend is to be one - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts 14NOV2011

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance - Edgar J Mohn
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything - Mark Twain
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves - Walter Anderson
One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth - Chinese Proverb

Thoughts 04NOV2011

He who has hope has everything - Arabian Proverb
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare - Japanese Proverb
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day - Indian Proverb

Thoughts 03NOV2011

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays - Professor Harold Hill (The Music Man)
The wisest mind has something yet to learn - George Santayana
Happiness itself does not stay - only moments of happiness do - Spanish Proverb

Thoughts 02NOV2011

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else - Benjamin Franklin
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward - Thomas A Edison
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing - Theodore Roosevelt

Thoughts 01NOV2011

We get to make a living; we give to make a life - Winston Churchill
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing - Dale Carnegie
From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road - Yiddish Proverb
No one became poor by giving alms - French Proverb

Thoughts 31OCT2011

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes ... but that would be a mistake - Anonymous
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourselfs - Andy Warhol
If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it - Mary Engelbreit

Thoughts 28OCT2011

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
Never discourage anyone ... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow - Plato
If there is no struggle, there is no progress - Frederick Douglas

Thoughts 27OCT2011

Let him that would move the world first move himself - Socrates
The time to make friends is before you need them - Traditional Proverb
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up - John
Andrew Holmes Jr; American Writer and Minister
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be - David Bly

Thoughts 25OCT2011

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty - Winston Churchill
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it - Mary Norton Gordon
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart - John Hevwood, sixteenth-century English Poet
You must motivate yourself EVERYDAY - Matthew Stasior

Thoughts 24OCT2011

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality - in your mind - Bruce Lee
One does evil enough when one does nothing good - German Proverb
You may be on the right track, but if you sit there you'll get run over - Paul H Dunn
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster - Anonymous

Thoughts 21OCT2011

Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass - Chuck T Falcon
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing - Anonymous
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can - Henry Drummond
In order to change we must be sick and tired or being sick and tired - Author Unknown

Thoughts 20OCT2011

Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor - Seneca
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one - Mother Teresa

Thoughts 19OCT2011

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it - Salvador Dali
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow - Anonymous
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind - Buddha

Thoughts 18OCT2011

You haven't failed until you quit trying - Anonymous
Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something - Plato
All progress occurs because people dare to be different - Harry Milner
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by - Korean Proverb

Thoughts 17OCT2011

The truth is more important than the facts - Frank Lloyd Wright
Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot - Indian Proverb
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better - Anonymous

Thoughts 14OCT2011

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much - Erich Fromm
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions - Author Unknown
A half truth is a whole lie - Yiddish Proverb
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about - Chinese Proverb

Thoughts 13OCT2011

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams - Anonymous
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes - St Clement of Alexander
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man- Elbert Hubbard

Thoughts 12OCT2011

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy - Russian Proverb
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on - Anonymous
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom - Anonymous
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult - Seneca

Thoughts 11OCT2011

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it - Cullen Hightower
Where there is love there is no darkness - Burundi Proverb
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one - Japanese Proverb
A heart in love with beauty never grows old - Turkish Proverb

Thoughts 10OCT2011

Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends - Afghan Proverb
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends - Gabonese Proverb
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief - Egyptian Proverb
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway - Fr Jerome Cummings

Thoughts 06OCT2011

What worth has beauty if it is not seen - Italian proverb
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them - Ann Landers
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards - Soren Kierkegaard
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best - William M Thackeray

Thoughts 05OCT2011

One lie ruins a thousand truths - Ghanaian Proverb
What we see depends mainly on what we look for - John Lubbock
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others - Chinese Proverb
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair - Iranian Proverb

Thoughts 04OCT2011

Anyone who thinks that sky is the limit, has limited imagination - Anonymous
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse - Anne Sophie Swetchine
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened?" - Anonymous

Thoughts 03OCT2011

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one does not dined well - Virginia Woolf
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly - Buddha
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it - Afghan Proverb

Thoughts 30SEP2011

When anger rises, think of the consequences - Confucius
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy - Aristotle
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one - Benjamin Franklin

Thoughts 29SEP2011

You can communicate best when you first listen - Catherine Pulsifier
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak - Epictetus
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people - William Butler Yeats

Thoughts 28SEP2011

People can become anything that they want to become. Everyone has the ability - all that is needed is the will, a plan, and the power to put that plan into action - Thomas D Willhite
Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd : a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more - A Lou Wickery
With so little time, there are just not enough minutes left to hate, not enough time for gossip or fighting. We should all be busy "doing" and "being" that we have no time left for anything but accomplishing "good" - Thomas D Willhite

Thoughts 27SEP2011

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable - Christopher Reeve
Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be your forever - Deepak Chopra
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions - Albert Einstein

Thoughts 26SEP2011

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't - Richard Bach
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nithing. It was here first - Mark Twain
There are no ordinary moments. There is always something going on - Peaceful Warrior

Thoughts 23SEP2011

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence - Lin Yutang
Life is tough, but you must be tougher - Unknown
Try and fail, but don't fail to try - Stephen Kaggwa

Thoughts 22SEP2011

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure - Colin Powel
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions - Oliver Wendel Holmes
Change is not pleasant, but change is constant. Only when we change and grow, we'll see a world we never know - From Wisdom of The Orang Woodpecker

Thoughts 21SEP2011

THE MOMENT IS NOW
Regardless of how much paid and trouble we go through to accomplish something, we should not let our minds linger on past achievements. Regardless of how much we have given to others, we must not ask for favours in return or seek recompense. We cannot keep the past, and the future is difficult to predict. So seize the day, the moment is now - Source Unknown
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand - Unknown Tribe (Native American)

Thoughts 19SEP2011

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 I can do - Edward Everett Hale
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change - Jim Rohn
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others - Robert Louis Stevenson

Thoughts 16SEP2011

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 I can do - Edward Everett Hale
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change - Jim Rohn
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others - Robert Louis Stevenson

Thoughts 15SEP2011

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them - Elbert Hubbard
It is impossible to win the race you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle - Richard M DeVos
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow - Crison Swett Marden

Thoughts 14SEP2011

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next - Mignon McLaughlin
Take time to come home to yourself everyday - Robin Casarjean
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life - Greg Anderson

Thoughts 13SEP2011

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed", you find that it simply means to follow through - F W Nichol
The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though already have it - Joseph Murphy
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired - Jules Renard

Thoughts 12SEP2011

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time - Sean Covey
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice - Steven D Woodhull
The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant - Crison S Marden

Thoughts 09SEP2011

If you're going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success - Unknown
This too shall pass - Persian Sufi Poets

Thoughts 08SEP2011

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters - Epictetus
Fighting for your dreams isn't always easy but it's so worth it - Unknown
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence - Helen Keller

Thoughts 07SEP2011

Every second you spend thinking about someonw else's dreams you take time away from your own - Yogi Ramen
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so - Belva Davis
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies - Ann landers

Thoughts 06SEP2011

Be present - it is the only moment that matters - Peaceful Warrior
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests - John Stuart Mill
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Thoughts 05SEP2011

Don't let the past steal your present - Cherralea Morgen
It is never too late to be what you might have been - George Eliot
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future - Robin Sharma

Thoughts 26AUG2011

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better - Jim Rohn
Whatever you're going through, many others have not only experienced the same but got out of it just fine - Unknown
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up - Les Brown

Thoughts 25AUG2011

Having a dream you don't pursue is like buying an ice-cream cone and watching it melt all over your hand - Frank Papasso
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action - Al Batt
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not - George Bernard Shaw

Thoughts 24AUG2011

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible - St Francis of Asisi
Stop looking at life through a keyhole ... open the door to opportunity ... get involved, and CREATE the YOU that you CHOOSE to become - Thomas D Willhite
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion - G W F Hegel

Thoughts 23AUG2011

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity - Einstein
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated - Maya Angelou
While there's life, there'ds hope - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thoughts 22AUG2011

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions - Albert Einstein
The only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them - Tony Robbins
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream - Les Brown

Thoughts 19AUG2011

No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big - Anonymous
We think about all of our tomorrows, but we don't know how many they are, so lets start making the most of our Todays - Ivana Trump
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present - B Olatunji

Thoughts 18AUG2011

When you don't get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you can't hold on to it forever - Peaceful Warrior, on the fallacy of attachment
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It'd the life in your years - Abaraham Lincoln
The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today - Anonymous

Thoughts 17AUG2011

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream - John Eliot
What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now - Buddha
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams - Doug Ivester

Thoughts 16AUG2011

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere - Albert Einstein
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Stgart where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along - Napoleon Hill
It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you - Zig Ziglar

Thoughts 15AUG2011

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone - Neale Donald Walsch
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world - Helen Keller
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there - Will Rogers

Thoughts 12AUG2011

If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions - Chinese proverb
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing - Albert Einstein
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leornardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein - H Jackson Brown

Thoughts 11AUG2011

Act as if everything you think, say and do determines your entire life - because in reality, it does! - Laurelle Adrian
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe - Anatole France
Regret for things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable - Sidney J Harris

Thoughts 10AUG2011

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always - Oprah Winfrey
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed - Lloyd Jones
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action - Benjamin Disraeli

Thoughts 09AUG2011

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them - Walt Disney
It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go - Bob Proctor
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle - Albert Einstein

Thoughts 08AUG2011

When the world says, : Give up", Hope whispers, "Try it once more time" - Anonymous
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started - Norman Cousins
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope - Epictetus

Thoughts 05AUG2011

Thoughts lead to words, words lead to actions, and hope is the thread that binds up each - Aimee Angle
Hope is what motivates us to work hard and get things done. It's the idea that something better will happen in the future because of what we do - George Anderton
He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything - Arabic Proverb

Thoughts 04AUG2011

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future - Robert H Schuller
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary - Margaret Cousins
Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake - Matthew Prior

Thoughts 03AUG2011

If you want happiness, create it now. Find the joy and beauty of this moment. Give yourself permission to be happy now. Give yourself permission to be beautiful now. Decide at this moment to be a leader, and you have become one. It can be that fast. "Taking responsibility" is not difficult. It is the "deciding to take responsibility" that is hard - Thomas D Willhite
To use power wisely is the final test of leadership. Thus, the first rule in the game of power (or life) and, in fact, the only hard and fast rule in the entire game is : POWER MUST BE THE SERVANT; IT MUST NOT BE THE MASTER!" - Thomas D Willhite

Thoughts 02AUG2011

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognizea problem before it becomes and emergency - Arnold Glasow
Tell me, I will forget. Show me, I may remember. Involve me, I will understand - Chinese Proverb
They may forget what you said, they may foget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel - Carl W Buscher

Thoughts 01AUG2011

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much - Jim Rohn
Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded - Charles Schwab
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of your life is this : decide what you want - Ben Stein

Thoughts 26JUL2011

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born - Dale E Turner
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly - Mabel
Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory - George S Patton

Thoughts 15JUL2011

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me can be summarised in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy; and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably - Walt Disney
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe - Anatole France
The best way to predict the future is to create it ! - Jason Kaufman

Thoughts 14JUL2011

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live - Jim Rohn
If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old - James A Garfield
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced - Art Van Der Leeuw

Thoughts 13JUL2011

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome - William James
We all need a daily check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin 'thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes - Zig Ziglar
Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd : "a little bit more". They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more - A Lou Vickery

Thoughts 12JUL2011

Let your life mean something. Become an inspiration to others so that they may try to do more and to become more than they are today - Thomas D Willhite
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him - Epictetus
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory - Betty Smith

Thoughts 11JUL2011

Unity is equal to a thousand golden coins - Kashmiri Proverb
Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink - Shunryu Suzuki
The light heart lives long - Irish Proverb
The palest ink is better that the best memory - Chinese Proverb

Thoughts 08JUL2011

The right man comes at the right time - Italian Proverb
The truth is not always what we want to hear - Yiddish Proverb
To be rich is not everything, but it certainly helps - Yiddish Proverb
To lend is to buy a quarrel - Indian Proverb

Thoughts 07JUL2011

Three diseases without shame : love, itch and thirst - Irish Proverb
To teach is to learn - Japanese Proverb
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week - Spanish Proverb
Truth is the safest lie - Jewish Proverb

Thoughts 06JUL2011

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend - Swedish proverb
Where there is love there is pain - Spanish Proverb
Who knows most speaks least - Spanish Proverb
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another - Italian Proverb

Thoughts 05JUL2011

Evil is sooner believed than good - Proverb of Unknown Origin
Fortune is blind, but not invisible - French Proverb
All men dream but those who dream by night waken in the mornings to find their dreams have vanished. But the ones who dream by day are the really dangerous men for they work to fulfill and make their dream come true - Source Unknown (got this from Associate Professor Dr Abd Samad Nawi of FBM, UiTM)