The Power of Thoughts

Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,

And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes

The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,

Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: —

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:

Environment is but his looking-glass.

As a Man Thinketh

ShayCarl started a bookclub... not the kind of book i usually read, but the book has powerful meaning once you look into it and embrace it.. Great quotes to read too... i'll leave it at that... starting the week with a positice mind.. let's just hope it last  =)

Quote of the Week

"Me, I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for. You can never predict if they're going to do something incredibly stupid." --- Jack Sparrow.. Captain Jack Sparrow.

Quote of the Century

"You even called me stupid in your verse, and I’m almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend." - Franz Grillparzer 

Quote of the Week

"Once you start to dislike someone, everything they do begins to annoy you."

Quote of the Week

forgot to scheduled something earlier, so this is actually back-dated....

"Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, it doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they've got" ---  Unkwown.



Quote of the Week

"In your face, suckers!!!" --- Amethyst


=b i was modest about it, but i celebrated the 6-1 in my own way.. now i feel like watching my dear Charlie Hunnam in Green Street...

Quote of the Week

"Compassion is the basis of morality" --- Arthur Schopenhauer

Quote of the Week

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” --- Neil Gaiman

Quote of the Week

As a tribute to Steve Jobs, this week will be a quote from him.. RIP..

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on." --- Steve Jobs

Quote of the Week

"Sometimes you put up walls not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down." --- Unknown.

Quote of the Week

"Rather fail with honour, than succeed by fraud" --- Sophocles

Quote of the Week

i'm re-naming this to Quote of the Week instead of Day since it's a weekly thing.... and each quote will be relevant to whut i go through in the week... this weeks' quote is.....

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power" --- Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the Day

With all the Petknode fiasco going on, i'd like to dedicate today's quote to the cats around the world...

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" --- Gandhi

Quote of the Day

"iIf you see something and think 'someone should do something about that' , remember, you are someone" --- Unknown

Quote of the Day

"Try not to be a man of success, but a man of value"  --- Albert Einstein

Positivity

that is what i crucially need now.. and although i do get encouragements from people around me, i need to encourage myself first in order to move on.. you can have every single person in the world motivate you, but if you can't motivate yourself, if i still have that wall up n block things out of my mind, their motivations will only be in vain... so right now, i'm just googling on positive quotes that i think could relate to my current situation..


A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort - Herm Albright

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want - Oscar Wilde

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left - Hubert Humphry

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourself miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same - Francesca Reigler

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it - Mary Engelbreit

The soul does not absorb negativity by accident, always by choice - Dodinsky (not sure if that's a person)

It is no use to grumble and complain. it is just as cheap and easy to rejoice - James Whitcomb Riley

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out - Art Linkletter

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles - Alex Karras

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved - Marcus Antonius

You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one - Carrie Latet

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. - Bobby Unser

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there - Indira Gandhi


And lastly... might be my favourite...

Positive thoughts are not enough. There have to be positive feelings and positive actions - Remez Sasson


=D

Quotes

Just read an interesting piece in the papers this morning..it was an interview with Marc Woods, four-time Paralympic gold medallist, who had one of his leg amputated below the knee due to bone cancer.. the interview asked "Has being disabled stopped you from doing what you want to do?" here's his answer..

-- Well, I think it is easy to have misconceptions about what it means to have a disability. My favourite question I get asked - and I only get asked this at primary schools - is "what is it like to be disabled?" Now that's a great question only a five, six, seven year old would ask, because adults are too embarassed. What I would say to these children is: Before I answer that question, let me ask you two questions. First, who is the most disabled person in this room? They'll say "You, you've got only one leg." Okay, that's fine, I can accept that. Then I'll ask "Who's the fastest swimmer in this room?" And they'll say "You are, because you have a gold medal." Then I'll say "Now who's disabled at swimming, me or you?"

The point I'm trying to make is that disability is relative to the task. We're all good at some things and not so good at others. So I think that the Paralympic Games, for example, is an opportunity to educate people to look at disability in a different way, to say don't judge people on the thing that they cannot do, but on the thousands of things that they can.--

Now ain't that something.. Good vibes to start my day...