All Is an Illusion
Empty and calm and devoid of self
Is the nature of all things.
No individual being
In reality exists.
There is no end or beginning,
Nor any middle course.
All is an illusion,
As in a vision or a dream.
All beings in the world
Are beyond the realm of words.
Their ultimate nature, pure and true,
Is like the infinity of space.
Change your thoughts, and you change your world. --Norman Vincent Peale
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CORETAN SAHABAT KECILKU
Tadi pagi saya menghapus banyak email di outlook saya.. tiba-tiba saya menemukan 1 email dari sahabat "kecil" ku... Elsye Christieyani buat saya. Teringat saya bagaimana proses perkenalan saya dengan di Che (demikian dia sering dipanggil) di dunia maya..
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Saya 'berkenalan' secara tidak sengaja dengan seseorang cewek cantik dan baik hati (menurut mata hati saya) melalui suatu yayasan anak-anak kurang mampu. Namanya Elsye Christieyani yang biasa saya panggil dengan nama kesayangannya, Che. Kemudian saya mengetahui kalau Che sering sekali terlibat dalam acara-acara kerohanian Katholik dan sangat dekat dengan anak-anak yang kurang mampu. Si Che (menurut mata hati saya), adalah anak mempunyai inner beauty. Saya tidak tahu, kenapa saya bisa klop dengan anak yang satu ini ... mungkin karena insting keibuan saya saja.
Beberapa kali kami ingin ketemu darat, tetapi tidak ter-realisasi.. ada saja kendalanya.. tetapi kita beberapa kali ketemu via telepon dan SMS. Che banyak curhat di telepon dan email tentang banyak hal. Saya sudah dianggap sebagai ibu, tante, kakak, teman oleh Che... Akhirnya kami sepakat untuk ketemu setelah aku balik dari Bali.
Tetapi, suatu saat saya menerima email dan sms yang menyatakan bahwa si Che yang cantik ini kecelakaan .. ditrabrak mobil.... dan "koma".. shock... mencoba menelepon tidak bisa tersambung, soalnya hpnya terblock.. saya tidak bisa mengunjungi rumah sakit, karena ada beberapa pelatihan yang tidak bisa di cancel. Yang hanya bisa saya lakukan adalah mencari tahu tentang keadaannya melalui teman-teman relawan yayasan tersebut. Shock saya yang kedua adalah Che harus menjalankan operasi kepala .... oh Tuhan, lindungilah anak yang baik hati ini... beri dia kesembuhan total.... jamah dia dan beri dia kesempatan untuk menikmati waktu muda nya dengan lebih baik lagi. Amin.
Suatu waktu, saya mendapat surprise sebuah SMS yang dikirim oleh Che yaitu "Ibu, ini Che, katanya aku ada janji ketemu ibu? kapan ya bu ? janji apa ya bu ?"
Aku hanya bisa berkata "puji Tuhan" anak ini sudah sembuh dan sekarang sudah bisa berkomunikasi... aku jawab ia dan menanyakan apa khabar, bagaimana dia sekarang dll.
Satu hal yang tidak bisa saya lupakan, adalah pertanyaan dia selanjutnya yaitu.. "saya harus panggil apa ya ? ibu, tante, kakak, mbak atau apa? soalnya sekarang saya banyak lupa". Saya bilang banyaklah membaca, kemudian menceritakan kembali, dan jangan banyak mikir yang macam-macam... Tapi Puji Tuhan, akhirnya si Che sembuh kembali dan sekarang banyak yang bisa dia ingat..
Kemudian... percakapan terus berlanjut sampai saat ini dan keadaan si Che yang cantik dan senang buat puisi (katanya bukan puisi sih).. semakin akrab walaupun belum juga kita sempat ketemu. Saya minta dibuatkan puisi buat saya.. apa saja... dan di bawah ini adalah sebuah catatan / coretan tangan si Che buat saya yang dikirim via email Agustus yang lalu...
Terima kasih Che...... semoga sembuh total ya manis ..... salam sayang buat mama juga di Cirebon..
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From: Elsye Christieyani [mailto:elsye@tstech.co.id]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 5:10 PM
To: cpatuwo@indo.net.id
Subject: Spesial tuk Ibu Seorang..
Makasih ya
(as your request)
Di luar sana, sang mentari hangati hatiku
yang kadang suka dingin membeku
Di luar sana, sang mentari sinari hatiku
yang kadang juga suka meredup
Tuhan itu baik
Ia juga kenalkan aku dengan seorang Ibu Carlina
Aku belum pernah bertemu dengannya
Lewati rentang waktu dan jarak hanya lewat email aja
Suatu hari, Tuhan membuatku mengenal suaranya
Ya, Bu Lina meneleponku dan menyadarkanku
alasan Tuhan masih beri aku HIDUP
"BUKAN hanya karena Tuhan masih sayang aku,
Tapi, jauh LEBIH dari itu,
Ia ingin hidupku bisa LEBIH baik,
LEBIH berarti dan LEBIH bermakna lagi"
Tak akan kulupa rangkaian kata-kata emas itu
Walau belum pernah bertemu
Tapi kumerasa DEKAT
Terimakasih untuk doa-doa Ibu
Terimakasih untuk dukungan semangatmu
Berkat berlimpah
Rahmat melimpah
Kumohonkan selalu padaNya
tuk Ibu Carlina
(Cikarang, 16 Agustus 2007)
Che
WISDOM WORDS
Joy
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
-Richard Wagner
Ashamed of what's not shameful,not ashamed of what is,beings adopting wrong viewsgo to a bad destination.Seeing danger where there is none,and no danger where there is,beings adopting wrong views,go to a bad destination.-Dhammapada
Flowers in the Sky
A hundred thousand worlds are flowers in the sky, a single mind and body is moonlight in the water; once the cunning ends and information stops, at that moment there is no place for thought.
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
-Richard Wagner
Hear Through Your Eyes...
Do you want to know what my body is? My body is the same as the whole earth.
Do you want to know what my mind is? My mind is the same as space itself.
Do you want to know what my vision is? I see there is nothing to see.
Do you want to know what I hear? I hear the unheard.Since I have been seeing and hearing, why then do I speak of the unheard? "If you listen with your ears, after all you cannot understand; when you hear through your eyes, only then will you know."-Ssu-hsin
Ashamed of what's not shameful,not ashamed of what is,beings adopting wrong viewsgo to a bad destination.Seeing danger where there is none,and no danger where there is,beings adopting wrong views,go to a bad destination.-Dhammapada
Flowers in the Sky
A hundred thousand worlds are flowers in the sky, a single mind and body is moonlight in the water; once the cunning ends and information stops, at that moment there is no place for thought.
DAILY INSPIRATION QUOTES
2 Dec 2007
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. -Mildred Barthel
Success is a journey, not a destination. -Ben Sweetland
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. -Arthur Ashe
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -The Buddha
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. -Charlotte Bronte
Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer. -Norwegian proverb
Talk happiness; talk faith; talk health. Say you are well, and all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. -Anatole France
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. -Ronald E. Osborn
30 Nov 2007
20 Nov 2007
MASTERY
"The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery." -- Janet Erskine Stuart
"With more success, comes greater problems along with greater ability to solve them." -- Mark Victor Hansen
"Challenge everything you do. Expand your thinking. Refocus your efforts. Rededicate yourself to your future." -- Patricia Fripp
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances." -- Thomas Jefferson
17 Nov 07
MANAGEMENT
"Restructure your activities continually. Regularly move resources to higher-value activities." -- Brian Tracy
"Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, ‘We don’t teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.’ Wow! What a clever short cut." -- Jim Rohn
"Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll learn." -- Marla Jones
"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment." -- Stephen Covey
16 Nov 07
THE MARKETPLACE
"We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get paid for the value, not the time." -- Jim Rohn
"Think about how you can differentiate your product from every other similar product in the marketplace." -- Brian Tracy
"Some people serve with pride -- because they ‘want to’ do and be their best; other people serve with disdain because they ‘have to’ do their job. Which person do you think will end up running the show?" -- Jeffrey Gitomer
"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace." -- Zig Ziglar
13 Nov 07
LOVE
"I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force... My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day." -- Og Mandino
"Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want." -- Martha Beck
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time." -- Dale Dauten
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." -- Jeanne Moreau
LISTENING
"Many people may listen, but few people actually hear." -- Harvey Mackay"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention." -- Diane Sawyer
"Be a great listener. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers." -- Brian Tracy
"We should quietly hear both sides." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12 Nov 07
All the delightful things of the world--sweet sounds, lovely forms, all the pleasant tastes and touches and thoughts--these are all agreed to bring happiness if they are not grasped and possessed. But if you regard them merely as pleasures for your own use and satisfaction and do not see them as passing wonders, they will bring suffering.
4 Nov 07
IGNORANCE
"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn." -- Benjamin Franklin
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." -- Elbert Hubbard
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star." -- Confucius
"When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds." -- Will Rodgers
IDEAS
"Good ideas are common-what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act." -- Andre Malraux
"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living." -- Anais Nin
"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas." -- Albert Einstein
27 Oct 07
INVOLVEMENT
"How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now." -- Gerald Jampolsky
"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together." -- Margaret Atwood
"The question of success is not will it?…Or even will there be…or even will it ever?…the question is…is will you? -- Doug Firebaugh
"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help." -- Abraham Lincoln
IMAGINATION
"Live out of your imagination, not your history." -- Stephen R. Covey
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." -- Albert Einstein
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -- Mark Twain
"This world is but a canvas to our imaginations." -- Henry David Thoreau
JUST DO IT!
"No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work." -- Mother Teresa
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, 'certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"Beginning is half done!" -- Denis Waitley
"The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can." -- Richard Cushing
INTEGRITY/HONESTY
"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Integrity has no need of rules." -- Albert Camus
"A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune – is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come." -- Denis Waitley
"Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't." -- Peter Scotese
INNOVATION
"The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B." -- James Yorke
"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth." -- Peter F. Drucker
"Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done." -- Brian Tracy
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." -- Herman Melville
INFLUENCE/ASSOCIATION
"You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me." -- Scott Adams
"The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality." -- John Quincy Adams
"You become that to which you are most exposed." -- Denis Waitley
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. -Mildred Barthel
Success is a journey, not a destination. -Ben Sweetland
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. -Arthur Ashe
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -The Buddha
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. -Charlotte Bronte
Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer. -Norwegian proverb
Talk happiness; talk faith; talk health. Say you are well, and all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. -Anatole France
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. -Ronald E. Osborn
30 Nov 2007
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. -Eleanor Roosevelt
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. -C.C. Scott
Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. -Shakti Gawain
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. -Thornton Wilder
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. -Ani DiFranco
Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. -Dora Russell
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. -John Milton
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. -Carl Jung
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin
Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. -Josh Billings
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. -Rabindranath Tagore
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. -John Milton
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. -Helen Keller
20 Nov 2007
MASTERY
"The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery." -- Janet Erskine Stuart
"With more success, comes greater problems along with greater ability to solve them." -- Mark Victor Hansen
"Challenge everything you do. Expand your thinking. Refocus your efforts. Rededicate yourself to your future." -- Patricia Fripp
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances." -- Thomas Jefferson
17 Nov 07
MANAGEMENT
"Restructure your activities continually. Regularly move resources to higher-value activities." -- Brian Tracy
"Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, ‘We don’t teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.’ Wow! What a clever short cut." -- Jim Rohn
"Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll learn." -- Marla Jones
"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment." -- Stephen Covey
16 Nov 07
THE MARKETPLACE
"We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get paid for the value, not the time." -- Jim Rohn
"Think about how you can differentiate your product from every other similar product in the marketplace." -- Brian Tracy
"Some people serve with pride -- because they ‘want to’ do and be their best; other people serve with disdain because they ‘have to’ do their job. Which person do you think will end up running the show?" -- Jeffrey Gitomer
"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace." -- Zig Ziglar
13 Nov 07
LOVE
"I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force... My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day." -- Og Mandino
"Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want." -- Martha Beck
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time." -- Dale Dauten
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." -- Jeanne Moreau
LISTENING
"Many people may listen, but few people actually hear." -- Harvey Mackay"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention." -- Diane Sawyer
"Be a great listener. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers." -- Brian Tracy
"We should quietly hear both sides." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12 Nov 07
All the delightful things of the world--sweet sounds, lovely forms, all the pleasant tastes and touches and thoughts--these are all agreed to bring happiness if they are not grasped and possessed. But if you regard them merely as pleasures for your own use and satisfaction and do not see them as passing wonders, they will bring suffering.
4 Nov 07
IGNORANCE
"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn." -- Benjamin Franklin
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." -- Elbert Hubbard
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star." -- Confucius
"When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds." -- Will Rodgers
IDEAS
"Good ideas are common-what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act." -- Andre Malraux
"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living." -- Anais Nin
"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas." -- Albert Einstein
27 Oct 07
INVOLVEMENT
"How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now." -- Gerald Jampolsky
"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together." -- Margaret Atwood
"The question of success is not will it?…Or even will there be…or even will it ever?…the question is…is will you? -- Doug Firebaugh
"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help." -- Abraham Lincoln
IMAGINATION
"Live out of your imagination, not your history." -- Stephen R. Covey
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." -- Albert Einstein
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -- Mark Twain
"This world is but a canvas to our imaginations." -- Henry David Thoreau
JUST DO IT!
"No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work." -- Mother Teresa
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, 'certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"Beginning is half done!" -- Denis Waitley
"The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can." -- Richard Cushing
INTEGRITY/HONESTY
"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Integrity has no need of rules." -- Albert Camus
"A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune – is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come." -- Denis Waitley
"Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't." -- Peter Scotese
INNOVATION
"The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B." -- James Yorke
"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth." -- Peter F. Drucker
"Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done." -- Brian Tracy
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." -- Herman Melville
INFLUENCE/ASSOCIATION
"You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me." -- Scott Adams
"The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality." -- John Quincy Adams
"You become that to which you are most exposed." -- Denis Waitley
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
13 Oct 07
HUMOR
"Humor is tragedy plus time." -- Mark Twain
"A Person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road." -- Henry Ward Beecher
"Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." -- Charles M. Schulz
HUMILITY
"We grow small trying to be great." -- E. Stanley Jones
"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search." -- Sir John Templeton
"You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit." -- Harry S. Truman
HOPE
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence." -- Helen Keller
"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again." -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." -- Martin Luther
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof." -- Barbara Kingsolver
HEALTH
"Cardiovascular problems alone in America create over a thousand funerals a day… and 90% of the problem is neglect." -- Jim Rohn"Laughter is the most healthful exertion." -- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
"It may be possible to incorporate laugher into daily activities, just as is done with other heart-healthy activities, such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator. The recommendation for a healthy heart may one day be exercise, eat right and laugh a few times a day." -- Michael Miller "We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific concrete, individualized unique." -- Benjamin Jowett
2 Oct 07
HEALTH
"Cardiovascular problems alone in America create over a thousand funerals a day… and 90% of the problem is neglect." -- Jim Rohn
"Laughter is the most healthful exertion." -- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
"It may be possible to incorporate laugher into daily activities, just as is done with other heart-healthy activities, such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator. The recommendation for a healthy heart may one day be exercise, eat right and laugh a few times a day." -- Michael Miller
"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific concrete, individualized unique." -- Benjamin Jowett
INTEGRITY/HONESTY
"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." -- George Washington
"The proof of integrity is what you do when no one is looking." -- Denis Waitley
"Live in truth with all people under all circumstances." -- Brian Tracy
"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will." -- John D. MacDonald
"Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure." -- Joseph Sugarman
"The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct." -- Blaise Pascal
"The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves." -- Stephen Covey
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity." -- Zig Ziglar
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Always do right! This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain
"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them." -- Plato
"If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good." -- Bill McCartney
"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise it, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage." -- Charles Simmons
"Integrity pays, but not in cash." -- Jennifer Stone
"Be as you wish to seem." -- Socrates
"Honesty in the workplace can't be regulated. It has to be encouraged by leaders who themselves are honest and willing to admit their failures." -- Carol Hymowitz
"One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life." -- L. Estrange
"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it." -- Lee Iacocca "I am a big believer in the 'mirror test.' All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best." -- John McKay
1 Oct 07
HAPPINESS
"To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food." -- Frederick e. Crane
"Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing." -- Brian Tracy
"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses." -- Dale Carnegie
"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." -- Samuel Johnson
HABITS
"Nothing needs reforming so much as other people’s habits." -- Mark Twain
"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don't know how to eliminate them effectively." -- W. Clement Stone
"The secret to Momentum in life can be found in the word Momentum... you create it Moment by Moment..." -- Doug Firebaugh
"Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours." -- Tom Hopkins
GROWTH
"As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time." -- Denis Waitley
"Let a person rejoice when he is confronted with obstacles, for it means that he has reached the end of some particular line of indifference or folly, and is now called upon to summon up all his energy and intelligence in order to extricate himself, and to find a better way; that the powers within him are crying out for greater freedom, for enlarged exercise and scope." -- James Allen
"It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson." -- Emmet Fox
"The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature." -- Arnold Bennett
GRATITUDE
"Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you." -- Brian Tracy
"There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow you way." -- Jim Rohn
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others." -- Marcus Cicero
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." -- William Arthur Ward
GOALS
"If you know what to do to reach your goal, it's not a big enough goal." -- Bob Proctor
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. It is what you would like life to become. A goal is what, specifically, you intend to make happen. Goals should be just out of your present reach, but not out of sight." -- Denis Waitley
"Set clear goals and make written plans for each part of your life." -- Brian Tracy
"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." -- Harvey Mackay
GIVING/ABUNDANCE
"That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes." -- Denis Waitley
"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." -- Og Mandino
"You can't be too kind or too generous." -- Patricia Fripp
"One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention." -- Jim Rohn
GETTING STARTED
"One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental ‘I should’ list." -- Jim Rohn
"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." -- Nido Qubein
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"All glory comes from daring to begin." -- Eugene F. Ware
12 Sept 07
FORGIVENESS
"Bitterness and an unforgiving spirit can be likened to you taking poison and expecting that someone else would die from the effect. Forgiveness is about setting the prisoner in your heart free only to discover that all along, you had been the real prisoner." -- 'Tope Popoola
"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." -- Robert Muller
"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed." -- Bernard Baruch"We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves." -- Denis Waitley
THE FUTURE
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." -- Charles Kettering
"Spend 80 percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday." -- Brian Tracy
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." -- John Wayne
10 Sept 07
FOLLOW-THROUGH
"Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution." -- Jeffrey Gitomer
"Sophisticated people don’t leave early. The man says, ‘Yeah, but I want to beat the traffic.’ Isn’t that a great skill to have – beating the traffic!" -- Jim Rohn
"Concentrate on one thing, the most important thing, and stay with it until it's complete." -- Brian Tracy
"Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution." -- Stephen Sondheim
6 Sept 07
FOCUS
"The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything." -- Lee Iococca
It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in." -- Washington Gladden
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he know exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." -- Alexander Graham Bell
"Emphasize everything and you emphasize nothing." -- Herschell Gordon Lewis
26 Aug 07
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. -Arnold Glasgow
To see things in the seed, that is genius. -Lao-Tzu
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. -Golda Meir
It is vital that people "count their blessings" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. -Abraham Maslow
Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow. -Unknown
We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today. -Sydney Smith
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. -Chinese Proverb
It isn't hard to be good from time to time. What's tough is being good every day.-Willie Mays
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. -Unknown
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.-Elie Wiesel
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world in the eye. -Helen Keller
Hearing is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art.-Frank Tyger
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.-Gail Godw in
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. -Satchel Paige
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. -Oprah Winfrey
I am always doing things I can't do; that's how I get to do them. -Pablo Picasso
We only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. So stop. Try something you’ve never tried. Teach it. Do it. Risk it. -Jon Blais
A good laugh is sunshine in a house. -William Makepeace Thackeray
21 Aug 07
EMPATHY/CARING
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." -- Leo F. Buscaglia
"Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success." -- Jim Rohn
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." -- George Washington Carver
"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind." -- Mahatma Gandhi
EMOTIONS
"When you develop your ability to balance your emotions, unexpected problems won't knock you off balance as easily, and you'll return more quickly to a positive outlook." -- Peggy McColl
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point." -- Jim Rohn
"The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand." -- Robert Vallett
12 Aug 07
"On with the dance; let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine." -Mark Twain
"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold." -Maurice Setter
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." -Emily Dickinson
"Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back." -W.K. Hope
"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
"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." -Rachel Carson
"When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration." -Deepak Chopra
11 Aug 07
SKILLS
"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." -- Larry Bird
"Develop the art of being exceptional." -- Patricia Fripp
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." -- Charles Darwin
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun." -- Pablo Picasso
SELF-LIMITING BELIEFS
"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself." -- Liberace
"Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace." -- James Allen
"Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible." -- Robert Schuller
"To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny." -- Alan Cohen
SERVICE/CUSTOMER SERVICE
"Know how to serve in terms of the customer. They don't care what your situation is -- they only care about their situation, their problem. Are you serving them in terms of them or you?" -- Jeffrey Gitomer
"Your customer is anyone who depends on you, or who you depend on for success." -- Brian Tracy
"The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be." -- Og Mandino
"Make your career a life of service to others and all the good things you desire will come to you." -- Tom Hopkins
REFERABILITY
"Call people back immediately. One of the biggest challenges most salespeople have is that they don't want to pick up messages and call people back. Return calls now. It's the only way you can build up a solid clientele." -- Tom Hopkins
"Don't concentrate on making a lot of money, but rather on becoming the type of person people want to do business with." -- Patricia Fripp
"Does he or she know you, like you, and trust you? Does he want to see you succeed? Does she want to help you find new business? If so, then you have yourself a 'Personal Walking Ambassador.'" -- Bob Burg
"Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them." -- W. Edwards Deming
RISK-TAKING
"If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances." -- Julia Soul
"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, but by going off the main road; by trying the untried." -- Frank Tyger
"You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." -- Denis Waitley
"There is always a risk to follow your bliss, a price to pursue your passion." -- James A. Ray
RESOLVE
"Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change." -- Brian Tracy
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." -- Abraham Lincoln
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world." -- Archimedes10 Aug 07
10 Aug 07
COMMUNICATION/PERSUASION
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say." -- Jim Rohn
"The 8 key words that will move practically anyone to your side of the issue: ‘If you can't do it, I'll definitely understand.’" -- Bob Burg
"Your audience of 1 or 1000 will forgive you anything except being boring. Being too predictable is boring." -- Patricia Fripp
COMMITMENT
"There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between." -- Pat Riley
"A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision." -- Nido Qubein
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." -- Madame Marie Curie
"Reality forms around your commitments. The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it." -- Max Steingart
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