"Sometimes, I lie awake at night, and I ask,
 'is life a multiple-choice or a true or false test?'
Then a voice comes out of the dark and says,
 'we hate to tell you this, but life is a thousand-word essay.'"
Charlie Brown

Everything works out in the end.
If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end.

You can have it all.
You just can't have it all at one time.

~^Oprah Winfrey^~

I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought,
I wouldn't have thought so much.

"How does one become a butterfly?
You must want to fly so much that
you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

- Trina Paulus -

但愿你在我的身邊...
.......即使你已化成風...
°º¤ 呂童珍~Yeo Kyungjin ¤º°

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt,
it means you never take any chances.

Remember,
today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Dale Carnegie

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want in this life is this:
Decide what you want.

Ben Stein
(Actor, Author, Comedian)

Life is a beautiful melody, only that it's lyrics is all mixed up.

You'll never really understand a person,
until you consider things from that person's point of view...
until you climb into that person's skin and walk around in it.

Always put yourself in others' shoes.
If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.

cute..for e pigs in e world..

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

- Jean de la Bruyere

Why can't people just have a little more understanding?
Why can't people just have a little more tolerance?
Why can't people just have a little more care?
Why can't people just use their BRAIN a little more?

Why can't they THINK before they decided to do something?
Why can't they think of the consequences?

THINK! Not only for themselves, but for people around them too, and how their actions will affect the future, feelings and is it the best way out?

To do that, you need a little more understanding, a little more tolerance, a little more care and last but not least, your BRaIN!
For goodness sake, use it to THINK!

Don't just look at the surface of the problem and assume that no one care, the world is against you, treating your foe as friend and the closest people around you as foe.

If I could live my life over..

I would never forget a birthday
I would take every opportunity to say I love you
I would take the time to stop and listen
I would make time for a friend..
juz because..

I would plan family vacations to spend time with my family
I would take the time to hear the wild adventures of a 5 yr-old
I would spend more time making someone feel beautiful and important
I would rolled down a grassey hill just to feel the rush
I would share my feelings with those who love me
I would eat cake for breakfast
or pancakes for dinner just to celebrate the day

I would cherish the little everyday things..
a morning hug
a smile from a stranger
dinner with my family
a crayon masterpiece
an unexpected phone call
a sunset

If I had my life to live over..

I would make a point to not regret the choices I made
and I would make sure everyone I loved know it..
Everyday..

I didn't want to let another minute pass me by
without letting you know you're an important part of my life

~ J. Goode ~

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Paul Boese

When I Saw you, I was afraid to Meet you.
When I Met you, I was afraid to Like you.
When I Liked you, I was afraid to Love you.
When I Loved you, I was afraid to Lose you.

Enthusiasm is everything.
It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

~ Pele ~

You come to love not by finding the Perfect Person
but by seeing the Imperfect Person perfectly.

People don't remember you for what you have,
They remember you for how you made them feel.

等待，
好不好，
坏不坏，
远不远，
近不近，
的未来。

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

If life's a dream, what makes death?

The days are too short even for love;
how can there be enough time for quarreling?

- Margaret Gatty -

You pile up enough tomorrows,
and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.

- Harrold Hill -

If you live to be a hundred,
I want to live to be a hundred minus one day,
so I never have to live without you.


x°º¤Winnie the Pooh¤º°x
TO: KUM KUM
You good huh.. make me so sad.. now then you tell me it's a April fool's joke.. hai..anyway glad to hear that you are not thinking too much now.. but don't stop your brain from functioning properly k.. haha... and e quote means: "one would rather leave first before another so as not to have to bear e anguish n hurt of losing the other" Actually it's quite selfish, cos the 'other person' will be the one suffering.. enjoy your holidays..

TO: PIN PIN
you saw that from TV? i don't know about that, i took it from an e-mail.. and ya, from winnie the pooh.. happy holidays too..

因为陌生，
所以勇敢，
因为距离，
所以美丽。

Hero

Let me be your hero
Would you dance if I asked you to dance?
Would you run and never look back
Would you cry if you saw me crying
Would you save my soul tonight?

Would you tremble if I touched your lips?
Would you laugh oh please tell me these
Now would you die for the one you love?
Hold me in your arms tonight?

(Chorus)
I can be your hero baby
I can kiss away the pain
I will stand by you forever
You can take my breath away

Would you swear that you'll always be mine?
Would you lie would you run away
Am I in too deep?
Have I lost my mind?
I don't care you're here tonight

Chorus

I just want to hold you (2x)
Am I in too deep?
Have I lost my mind?
Well I don't care you're here tonight

Chorus (2x)

You can take my breath my breath away
I can be your hero

Enrique Iglesias

.....We need patience just to survive--for people are people.
Some will be inconsiderate,
some will be downright mean and selfish.
And we shall inevitably run into such people.
Their meanness and inconsideration could make us sad,
depressed or discouraged.
If we let that happen, life for us will come to a standstill......

Don't ever give up if you still want to try.
Don't ever wipe your tears if you still want to cry.
Don't ever settle for an answer if you still want to know.
Don't ever say you don't love him/her if you can't let him/her go.
---> TO My Dear Friends Out There<---

When people talk, listen completely.
Most people never listen.

If your success is not on your own terms,
if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart,
it is not success at all.

A heart is not judged by how much you love,
but by how much you are loved by others.

The Wizard to the Tin Man

Only Time

(A Day Without Rain)

Who can say where the road goes,
Where the day flows?
Only time...

And who can say if your love grows,
As your heart chose?
Only time...

(chants)

Who can say why your heart sighs,
As your love flies?
Only time...

And who can say why your heart cries,
When your love dies?
Only time...

(chants)

Who can say when the roads meet,
That love might be,
In your heart.

And who can say when the day sleeps,
If the night keeps all your heart?
Night keeps all your heart...

(extended chants)

Who can say if your love grows,
As your heart chose?
Only time...

And who can say where the road goes,
Where the day flows?
Only time...

Who knows?
Only time...

Who knows?
Only time...

- Enya -

Friendship is like a R A I N B O W :
Red like an apple, sweet to the core.
Orange , like a burning flame, never dying out.
Yellow like the sun that brightens your day.
Green like a plant that keeps on growing.
Blue like the water that is so pure.
Purple like a flower that is ready to bloom.
Indigo like the dreams that fill your heart.

Thank you for the blessing of our friendship!

Love hurts when you break up with someone.
It hurts even more when someone breaks up with you.
But love hurts the most when the person you love has no idea how you feel.

Can you see a baby?

They always say time changes things,
but you actually have to change them yourself.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible
- and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy ;
you can't build on it, it's only good for wallowing in.

Destiny is no matter of chance.
It is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for,
it is a thing to be achieved.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart
so you can become bitter and give up.
They happen to break you down and build you up
so you can be all that you were intended to be.

When an extra smile from me
makes you feel nothing,
it means I am nothing to you.

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Love is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you just let it fly, it will come to you when you least expect it. Love can make you happy but often it hurts, but love's only special when you give it to someone who is really worth it. So take your time and give it to the one you really treasure.

C o l o r s Of The Wind

You think you own whatever land you land on
The earth is just a dead thing you can claim
But I know ev'ry rock and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name

You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew you never knew

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once, never wonder what they're worth

The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the otter are my friends
In a cirle, in a hoop that never ends

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or let the eagle tell you there he's been
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

How high does the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down, then you'll never know

And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
For whether we are white or copper-skinned
We just sing with all the voices of the mountain
Need to paint with all the colors of the wind
You can own the earth and still
All you'll own is earth until
You can paint with all colors of the wind

Vanessa Williams

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY.
GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.

存在

你说着 我听着 像海浪打着 沙滩烧着
你的忧伤大于快乐 连彩虹都只剩下一种颜色
我听着 你说着 像刀子划的 隐隐痛着
就因为爱没有规则 所以心痛了死了回不去了
但是我存在着 我一直存在着
和你一起的照片仍在我的手机上贴着
爱会永远永远 你说的
离开我的时候 却没舍不得
我真的存在着 我一直存在着
不管是疯的气的我受着我紧紧手握着
傻傻的陪着守着证明你值得
但我会笑着因为一切都值得

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

- Mother Teresa -

I Love My Garbage Man

I had been working much too long on this job. I guess things could have been worse. I certainly wasn't doing hard labor. But going door to door asking questions as a representative of the federal government wasn't the most satisfying position either.

It was August. It was hot. I had to wear a tie.

"Hello. My name is Bob Perks and we are doing a survey in this neighborhood."

"I'm not interested! Good bye!".slam, lock.

You can't imagine how many times I heard that. I finally caught on and began with "Before you slam the door, I am not selling anything and I just need to ask a few questions about yourself and the community."

The young woman inside the doorway, paused for a moment, raised her eyebrows as she shrugged her shoulders confused by my rude introduction.

"Sure. Come on in. Don't mind the mess. It's tough keeping up with my kids."

It was an older home in a section of the valley where people with meager income found affordable shelter. With the little they had, the home looked comfortable and welcoming.

"I just need to ask a few questions about yourself and family. Although this may sound personal I won't need to use your names. This information will be used."

She interrupted me. "Would you like a glass of cold water? You look like you've had a rough day."

"Why yes!" I said eagerly.

Just as she returned with the water, a man came walking in the front door. It was her husband.

"Joe, this man is here to do a survey." I stood and politely introduced myself.

Joe was tall and lean. His face was rough and aged looking although I figured he was in his early twenties. His hands were like leather. The kind of hands you get from working hard, not pushing pencils.

She leaned toward him and kissed him gently on the cheek. As they looked at each other you could see the love that held them together. She smiled and titled her head, laying it on his shoulder. He touched her face with his hands and softly said, "I love you!"

They may not have had material wealth, but these two were richer than most people I know. They had a powerful love. The kind of love that keeps your head up when things are looking down.

"Joe works for the borough." She said.

"What do you do?" I asked.

She jumped right in not letting him answer.

"Joe collects garbage. You know I'm so proud of him."

"Honey, I'm sure the man doesn't want to hear this." Said Joe.

"No, really I do." I said.

"You see Bob, Joe is the best garbage man in the borough. He can stack more garbage on the truck than anyone else. He gets so much in one truck that they don't have to make as many runs," she said with such passion.

"In the long run," Joe continues, "I save the borough money. Man hours are down and the cost per truck is less."

There was silence. I didn't know what to say. I shook my head searching for the right words.

"That's incredible! Most people would gripe about a job like that. It certainly is a difficult one. But your attitude about it is amazing." I said.

She walked over to the shelf next to the couch. As she turned she held in her hand a small framed paper.

"When we had our third child Joe lost his job. We were on unemployment for a time and then eventually welfare. He couldn't find work anywhere. Then one day he was sent on an interview here in this community. They offered him the job he now holds. He came home depressed and ashamed. Telling me this was the best he could do. It actually paid less than we got on welfare."

She paused for a moment and walked toward Joe.

"I have always been proud of him and always will be. You see I don't think the job makes the man. I believe the man makes the job!"

"We needed to live in the borough in order to work here. So we rented this home." Joe said.

"When we moved in, this quote was hanging on the wall just inside the front door. It has made all the difference to us, Bob. I knew that Joe was doing the right thing," she said as she handed me the frame.

It said: If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep the streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
Martin Luther King

"I love him for who he is. But what he does he does the best. I love my garbage man!"

So how was your day? Did you give it your best? Or did your attitude get the best of you?

Whatever is your job does not determine the kind of person you are; It's your approach to life and the way you live it.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

Miracles sometimes do occur,
but one has to work terribly hard for them.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."

Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of someone else.

If I won't be myself, who will?

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

- Chinese Proverb -

There is no beginning or end.

Yesterday is history .
Tomorrow is mystery .
Today is a gift .

Dream what you want to DREAM ,
Go where you want to GO ,
Be what you want to BE .

Because you have only ONE LIFE and ONE CHANCE to do all the things you want to do...

To realize The value of a sister:
Ask someone Who doesn't have one.

To realize The value of ten years:
Ask a newly Divorced couple.

To realize The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.

To realize The value of one year:
Ask a student who Has failed a final exam.

To realize The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.

To realize The value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize The value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to Meet.

To realize The value of one minute:
Ask a person Who has missed the train, bus, or plane.

To realize The value of one-second:
Ask a person Who has survived an accident.

To realize The value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal
in the Olympics.

Time waits For no one.
Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.

Life itself is a miracle yet it's so frail.