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8月25日 Today's quote“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader” - John Quincy Adams. 5月21日 What's being passionateBeing passionate means that you love something so much that you are willing to suffer and endure whatever it takes to be successful. 4月30日 Today's sayings- Life is like a snowball, rolling down hill. You know the beginning and the end, but you don't know what path you take to get there.
- If someone tell you, you can't do this and that. That just means they can't do it. Don't take it seriously, just do it and show to them you can and it's very fullfilling!
- Unfortunately we are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. It's human nature to be what we were never intended for.
(Actually this isn't a bad nature, just part of self exploration to stretch our potential, what's the point of living if you always stay inside a comfortable zone and do what you've done thousands of times?)
4月15日 Thought for the day"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot 4月5日 Expectation, what a word!“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.” Denis Waitley 2月5日 Human NatureNothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. - Scott Adams 2月4日 The winter has come, thus spring will not be farWhenever I am going through hardship in life, I will tell myself, 天降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身，行拂乱其所为, 所以动心忍性，曾益其所不能 - 孟子 (English Translation: When Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a great man, it always first frustrates his spirit and will, exhausts his muscles and bones, exposes him to starvation and poverty, harasses him by troubles and setbacks so as to stimulate his spirit, toughen his nature and enhance his abilities. - menfusious)
So the hardship is just there to prepare you for the enlightment to come, then we will go through with a smile and peace. 2月2日 Time will tellWisom vs. emotion Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now! Emotionalism is rash. It calls for immediate action. While wisdom calmly looks ahead to determine how a decision will affect the future, emotions are only concerned with what is happening at the moment. What is the world's philosophy today? "If it feels good, just do it!" "Impossible is nothing!" So we are encouraged to let our feelings led us, we acted based on our emotions rather than wisdom, then often we regret after, so we learn and grow wisdom. Emotions are wonderful, and it could be powerful if we don't know how to control it, but they must not be allowed to take precedence over wisdom and knowledge. So when in doubts, take your time. 6月25日 The Mountain StoryI accidentally saw this story in an eshot (a company weekly newsletter) in my inbox and this is interesting:
"A son and his father were walking on the mountains. Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and screams: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!" To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!" Curious, he yells: "Who are you?" He receives the answer: "Who are you?" And then he screams to the mountain: "I admire you!" The voice answers: "I admire you!" Angered at the response, he screams: "Coward!" He receives the answer: "Coward!" He looks to his father and asks: "What's going on?" The father smiles and says: "My son, pay attention." Again the man screams: "You are a champion!" The voice answers: "You are a champion!" The boy is surprised, but does not understand. Then the father explains: "People call this ECHO, but really this is LIFE. It gives you back everything you say or do. Our life is simply a reflection of our actions. If you want more love in the world, create more love in your heart. If you want more competence in your team, improve your competence. This relationship applies to everything, in all aspects of life; Life will give you back everything you have given to it." YOUR LIFE IS NOT A COINCIDENCE. IT'S A REFLECTION OF YOU!" -- Unknown Author 5月26日 Rumi's delicious poemsThe Lovers Love came, I saw Sorrow 3月26日 Quotes from Mansfield ParkEdmund Bertram: Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough. Fanny Price: I have no talent for certainty. Henry Crawford: You dance like an angel, Miss Price. Fanny Price: One does not dance like an angel alone, Mr. Crawford. Edmund Bertram: Your entire person is entirely agreeable. Fanny Price: Yes, well, tonight I agree with everyone. Fanny Price: Beware of fainting fits. Beware of swoons. Mary Crawford: Gentlemen, please. Fanny Price is as fearful of praise and notice as other women are of neglect. Fanny Price: Well, Lady Bertram is always suffering near-fatal fatigue. Susan Price: From what? Fanny Price: Usually from embroidering something of little use and no beauty... not to mention a healthy dose of opium every day. Susan Price: Your tongue is sharper than a guillotine, Fanny. Fanny Price: The effect of education, I suppose. Edmund Bertram: She does not think evil, but she speaks it. Fanny Price: The effect of education, I suppose. Mary Crawford: Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope for a cure. Susan Price: So, this Henry Crawford, what's he like? Fanny Price: A rake. I think. Susan Price: Oh, yes, please. Fanny Price: They amuse more in literature than they do in life. Susan Price: Yes, but they amuse. Young Susan: Think up lots of stories for me and eat hundreds of tarts. Fanny Price: I often wonder that history should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention. Mary Crawford: But what I am keen to know is which gentleman among you am I to have the pleasure of making love to? Henry Crawford: What? A compliment? Heavens rejoice, she complimented me! Fanny Price: I complimented your dancing, Mr. Crawford, keep your wig on. Fanny Price: Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint. [to Edmund Bertram as she is leaving to return home] Fanny Price: I hope... I hope you know how much... how much I shall... write to you... Fanny Price: And a woman's poverty is a slavery even more harsh than a man's. Henry Crawford: Mm, arguable. But it need not be your lot. You can live out your days in comfort... with me. Fanny Price: I know. Henry Crawford: You do? Fanny Price: Yes. Henry Crawford: Is that a yes? Fanny Price: Yes. Henry Crawford: Is that the yes I have heard a hundred times in my heart but never from you? Oh, Fanny Price... You will learn to love me. Say it again. Fanny Price: Yes. Mary Crawford: This is 1806 for Heaven's sake! Edmund Bertram: Your keen adaptability to my brother's possible demise sends a chill through my heart. A chill. Happily planning parties with his money. You shush my father like a dog at your table, and then you attack Fanny for following her own, infallible guide concerning matters of the heart. All of this leads me to believe that the person I've been so apt to dwell on for many months has been a figure of my own imagination, not you, Miss Crawford. I do not know you, and I'm sorry to say, I have no wish to. Edmund Bertram: Fanny, I've loved you my whole life. Fanny Price: I know, Edmund. Edmund Bertram: No... I've loved you as a man loves a woman. As a hero loves a heroine. As I have never loved anyone. Fanny Price: Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings. Henry Crawford: And what is your opinion, Miss Price? Fanny Price: I am sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Crawford, but I'm afraid I do not have a ready opinion. Henry Crawford: I suspect you are almost entirely composed of ready opinions not yet shared. Edmund Bertram: Oh, don't be an imbecile. Fanny Price: Oh, but imbecility in women is a great enhancement to their personal charms. Edmund Bertram: Fanny, you're being irrational. Fanny Price: Yet another adornment. I must be ravishing. Fanny Price: Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. The bride was elegantly dressed and the two bridesmaids were duly inferior. Her mother stood with salts, expecting to be agitated, and her aunt tried to cry. Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business. Henry Crawford: Fanny, you have created sensations which my heart has never known before. Fanny Price: Please. Henry Crawford: There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. Fanny Price: Mr. Crawford, do not speak nonsense. Henry Crawford: Nonsense? Fanny Price: You are such a fine speaker that I'm afraid you may actually end in convincing yourself. Henry Crawford: Fanny. You are killing me. Fanny Price: No man dies of love but on the stage. Edmund Bertram: There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time. Mary Crawford: We seemed very happy to see each other, and I think we actually were a little bit. Edmund Bertram: Fanny, you really must begin to harden yourself to the idea of... being worth looking at. Fanny Price: It could have turned out differently, I suppose. But it didn't. Mary Crawford: We all need an audience, wouldn't you say, Fanny? Fanny Price: To be truthful, I live in dread of audiences. Maria Elizabeth Bertram: [to Henry Crawford] Would that the sigh were for me... Sir Thomas Bertram: Tom! You will do as I say! Tom Bertram: What, and do as you do? Even I have principles, sir. Edmund Bertram: And has your heart changed towards him? Fanny Price: Yes. Many times. Tom Bertram: Do you know it's 5 o'clock in the morning? Carriage Driver: Mrs Norris arranged for this girl to be brought here. It's her niece, or something. Tom Bertram: Mrs Norris lives in the parsonage over there. Carriage Driver: I was told most definitely to drop her at the front entrance of Mansfield Park. Tom Bertram: Then drop her. Fanny Price: [referring to Henry Crawford] I do not trust him, sir. Sir Thomas Bertram: What do you distrust? Fanny Price: His nature, sir. Like many charming people, he conceals an almost absolute dependence on the appreciation of others. Sir Thomas Bertram: And what is the terrible ill in that? Fanny Price: His sole interest is in being loved, sir, not in loving. 8月3日 Delicious Quotes (1)Open Secret, by Rumi,
translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks
Quatrains (Selection)
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When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for these two insomnias! And the difference between them. 77
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Stay in the company of lovers.
Those other kinds of people, they each want to show you something. A crow will lead you to an empty barn, a parrot to sugar. 1115
The minute I’m disappointed, I feel encouraged. When I’m ruined, I’m healed. When I’m quite and solid as the ground, then I talk the low tones of thunder for everyone. 1246
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. 1616
Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don’t really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate? 1652 We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain. We are the sweet, cold water and the jar that pours. |
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