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Just enough is not enough.

-Uncle B-[/i]

I love the man who can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

-Thomas Paine-

Winners are loosers who got up and gave it one more try...

-Dennis Young-

[quote="Miss. Ladybird"]Don't you sometimes feel "stuck" to a problem or a no-win situation and you find yourself very depressed and unable to do anything? It even gets worse when you find nobody to talk to.

Well, I had gone through this a lot. One of the things that helped me is reading these lines every time I feel depressed. They're a part of a novel called" Robinson Crusoe" written by Daniel Defoe. It's a story of a sailor who was desolated in an island alone and with nothing to help him survive. Believe me! It will help you to see the bright side of any problem.


[b][i] "I had now brought my State of Life to be much easier in it self than it was at first, and much easier to my Mind, as well as to my Body. I frequently sat down to my Meat with Thankfulness, and admir'd the Hand of God's providence, which had thus spread my Table in the Wilderness. I learn'd to look more upon the bright Side of my Condition, and less upon the dark Side; and to consider what I enjoy'd, rather than what I wanted; and this gave me sometimes such secret Comforts, that I cannot express them; and which I take Notice of here, to put those discontented People in Mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them; because they see, and covet something that he has not given them; All our Discontents about what we want, appear'd to me, to spring from the Want of Thankfulness for what we have." [/i] [/b]

From "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe[/quote]



I like this quote too. It teaches us to be thankful for what we have rather than to covet others' possessions. Looking to the bright side of anything is definitely good. It is our human nature though to keep looking for more and more. If someone just got an old car instead of his bicycle, this person would be really happy. But then, he'll want a newer car. If someone got an average salary, then later he would want a bigger one and so forth. Unless we reach this resolution of being thankful, this 'want' process could be indefinite.

Five great enemies of peace inhibit us:
avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Three Rules of Work:

1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

-Albert Einstein-

Keep SMILING . It makes everyone wonder what you've been up to.


Progress is nothing but the victory of SMILE over anger.


Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of hero and the SMILE of a conqueror.

SMILE is a slight curve which can set all things straight.

What's the use of worrying?
It never was worthwhile,
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
and SMILE, SMILE, SMILE....

krisi wrote:"I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet."

How creepy! I read this sentence this morning, somewhere, and now at the end of the day!

krisi wrote:"I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet."

I like this.

bambang wrote:

krisi wrote:"I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet."

I like this.

Thanks, Uncle Bambang... ( This really struck a vibrating chord in my heart.)

Miss. Ladybird wrote:

krisi wrote:"I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet."

How creepy! I read this sentence this morning, somewhere, and now at the end of the day!

I know the feelings, Miss. Ladybird... (I really cried when I had no shoes! But, this pierced my heart when I ran an eye over this quotation in a book... )

hi! i was having a lot of probleme and i was very sad
but when i have been remebering this quote i feel so happy
after any distress there is an affluence
allah

My two most favorite quots are:

"Life is not measured by the breath you take but rather by the moments that take your breath away" un-known

&

"What gose around comes around"

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

a very optimistic view to death

WALID wrote:“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

a very optimistic view to death

Who said that?

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
-Shakespeare-

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
-Abigail Adams-

Quotation confesses inferiority.
=Ralph Waldo Emerson=

Stop quoting me!
=Jimmy Henderson=

What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it!
=Robert Holmes=

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
=Samuel palmer=

Don't ever quote me!
=Uncle B.=

Proverb:

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Proverb

Many friends, many problems

Sunnypk wrote:Proverb

Many friends, many problems

I like this. Who told you that?

Bambang wrote:

Sunnypk wrote:Proverb

Many friends, many problems

I like this. Who told you that?

I don't agree with that..

Xkalibur wrote:

Bambang wrote:

Sunnypk wrote:Proverb

Many friends, many problems

I like this. Who told you that?

I don't agree with that..

Because you have only few friends. :P

ohad wrote:"The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits."

- Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman (Vilna Gaon)

I like this Ohad. That includes the unclean thoughts right?

in Spanish is "La vida sin música sería un error".

In English " Life without music would be a mistake"

8) I don't remember who said it,eventhough I love it.

Tennyson:

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have losed at all."

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great.

-Mark Twain-

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."

-Mother Teresa-

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
-Abigail Adams-

"We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."

-Mother Teresa-

"I wish none of this had happened."
"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
British scholar & author(1892 - 1973)

"I long to accomplish great and noble tasks,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

-Helen Keller-

What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry

"Be nice to people, then they'll be nice to you".
-Uncle Bambang-