~Rama-Rama OoOOoooOOo Rama-Rama~

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Satu tulisan berkenaan dengan rama-rama dan wanita begitu mencuit hati saya:-

Lihatlah rama-rama, ia cantik. Apabila pandangan kita dihiasi rama-rama, kita menjadi suka dan ceria. Hampir semua orang akan tersenyum melihat rama-rama. Ia mengindahkan alam dan menyempurnakan sekuntum bunga. Seindah mana pun bunga tanpa rama-rama mahu hinggap di situ, tentu ada sesuatu yang tidak kena.

Cubalah tangkap dan pegang rama-rama itu dengan sayapnya. Lihat apa yang melekat di jari anda – warna dan corak rama-rama itu telah berpindah ke jari-jari anda. Kemudian lepaskan kembali, ia terbang tapi lebih terbuai oleh angin. Siapa pun yang akan menangkapnya kembali tidak tertarik padanya lagi. Harganya telah tiada untuk dikagumi, disimpan mahukan diawetkan.

Rama-rama ibarat wanita. Ia indah untuk dipegang tetapi nilainya cepat turun setiap kali ada tangan-tangan yang tidak wajar hinggap pada tubuhnya. Memang fizikalnya tiada apa-apa yang kurang, tapi harga diri dan maruah telah mula tercemar.

Begitulah wanita. Ia bagaikan rama-rama yang terbang membawa corak-corak indah, apabila corak-corak itu telah pudar ia tidak dipedulikan lagi. Harga rama-rama terletak pada warna dan coraknya; harga wanita terletak pada apakah tubuhnya masih tulen tatkala dia didampingi oleh suaminya.

Rama-rama terpaksa berjuang untuk memulakan hidupnya. Dia terpaksa membebaskan diri daripada kepompong. Bukan mudah untuk keluar daripada kepompong yang mengikat itu. Sedangkan sepanjang berada di dalam kepompong tiada siapa pedulikannya, malah tatkala bergelar ulat ia lebih dibenci.

Sulitnya untuk akhirnya bergelar rama-rama. Terpaksa melalui kitaran dan evolusi bentuk. Daripada sesuatu yang menjijikan akhirnya bertukar menjadi sesuatu yang amat menyenangkan. Rama-rama adalah contoh terbaik wanita untuk sedar betapa bernilainya kehidupan mereka. Sewaktu anda dipuja, usah terlalu mabuk sebaliknya kenang-kenang kehidupan serba susah sebelum itu. Sewaktu anda digoda, dihambat dan dirayu usah terlalu mudah menyerah sebab ingatlah mereka yang bersusah payah memastikan anda dapat bangkit sebagai manusia sempurna hari ini. Anda tidak muncul sendiri, sebaliknya anda adalah lambang pengorbanan ibu bapa.

Usah jadi rama-rama yang di dalam bingkai gambar – indah dipandang tetapi diri sendiri menanggung beban. Hiduplah dengan bebas dan terjemahkan kebebasan itu kepada nilai-nilai murni yang perlu dipertahankan. Hak anda ialah memelihara kehormatan. Selama mana anda memelihara kehormatan dan maruah diri anda berada pada taraf A1, sebaik sahaja anda tidak peduli kepada siapa maruah itu hendak diberikan, anda sudah kehilangan masa depan.

Kalaulah rama-rama tahu dia cantik dan sentiasa memukau penglihatan manusia, dia tentu tidak mudah-mudah terbang ke sana sini. Sebab setiap kali ia mengibarkan sayapnya, ia sentiasa terdedah pada bahaya. Namun rama-rama tidak pernah tahu dia itu indah dan sentiasa menjadi sasaran manusia. Jika anda tidak pernah tahu kewanitaan anda itu adalah sasaran terpenting sang penceroboh, anda ibarat rama-rama yang tidak sedar diintai bahaya.

Mahalkan harga diri anda. Semakin sukar anda dimiliki semakin mahal nilai anda di sisi lelaki. Lelaki perosak hanya inginkan kuasa memiliki tetapi tidak mahu setia apalagi memelihara dan melindungi anda.

Usah terperangkap ke dalam tangan yang hanya akan meleraikan warna-warna anda. Setelah warna-warna itu hilang anda dibiarkan. Jadilah wanita angun yang punya nilai dan maruah diri, anda akan lebih dihormati.

Nilai anda bukan terletak pada berapa ramai lelaki yang ingin memiliki anda tetapi berapa ramai yang benar-benar sanggup menyintai anda. Cinta itu terjemahan pada kasih sayang dan belaian sayang penuh ikhlas. Selama mana anda belum menemuinya anggaplah diri anda masih berhak terbang bebas bagaikan sang rama-rama.

Jadilah rama-rama yang mengindahkan alam, jadilah wanita yang membanggakan semua orang.

Semoga dapat direnungkan bersama apa maksud tersurat dan tersirat yang ingin disampaikan. It's worth reading.

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~Apa Ada Pada Cinta Pertama...~

Cinta pertama amat terkesan dihati kebanyakkan orang.. antara petikan dari cinta pertama yang menyentuh hati naluri wanitaku..

kata mereka,
" cinta pertama tidak akan pernah bisa dilupakan "
sampai kapanpun kita akan membawa sebagian dari diri mereka yang entah bagaimana bisa tertinggal di dalam diri ..
mungkin senyumnya yang pernah memikat hati, mungkin tatapannya yang pernah mengisi hari hari,
mungkin pemikirannya yang masih saja mempengaruhi kita, mungkin kenangan kenangan lain yang kadang terlintas .. atau bahkan luka? lara? pedih? derita?
kata mereka, "yang terindah itu cuma hanya akan datang sekali"dan di tengah istimewanya, dia akan menyentuh kamu ..
hingga sewaktu pergipun jejaknya masih membekas jelas di hati, membuatmu tersenyum .. tersipu2 .. atau bahkan mengernyit pedih mengenang duka ..
entah, hidup ini pilihan kan? dan lagi-lagi adalah suatu pilihan bagaimana kita akan menyikapi segala hal yang ditakdirkan terjadi dalam hidup kitakata mereka,
"waktu menyembuhkan segalanya"seperti untuk segala sesuatu ada masanya, ada saatnya juga kita akan melepas kain kabung dan abu untuk mengenakan jubah kebahagiaan dan menyanyikan lagu puji2an ..entah bagaimana, segala yang pernah melukai akan hilang,
rantai - rantai masa lalu terkikis waktu, menjadi tua lalu mati dalam sendiri .. dan kita, asalkan tetap teguh akan berada disini untuk menyongsong masa depan ..
kata mereka,"mencintai itu berarti bersedia merelakan dia pergi jika dia memang harus pergi"tapi apa arti kata harus?harus menurut siapa? menurutku? menurutnya? menurut mereka? menurut kalian? atau menurut DIA?
cinta tidak selamanya harus memiliki mungkin, karena bukankah cinta tidak memiliki apapun selain dirinya sendiri?bukankah cinta tidak hidup dimanapun selain di dalam dirinya sendiri?dan bukankah cinta tidak berada di hati karena cinta ada dimana manamenjadi api, menjadi air, menjadi udara ..menjadi batu, menjadi kayu, menjadi rumput ..bukankah cinta hidup tidak disuatu tempat karena cinta adalah tempat itu sendiri?dan cinta bukan keadaan tapi jiwa ?lalu apa yang harus direlakan jika cinta tidak pernah menjadi apapun, menuntut apapun,

Ayat pertama, Cinta Pertama tidak akan bisa dilupakan.. ungkapan yang berbisa bagi aku.. seandainya aku ada kuasa untuk menghindarkan perasaan yang berkecamuk di fikiranku..alangkah bahagiannya aku sekarang...

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~Doaku Buat Kekasih~

Ya Allah...

Seandainya telah engkau catatkan Dia tercipta untukku

Satukanlah hatinya dan hatiku

Titipkanlah kebahagian di antara kami,

Agar kemesraan itu abadi...

Ya Allah Ya Tuhanku yang maha mengasihani,

Seiringkanlah kami melayari hidup ini

Ketepian yang sejahtera dan abadi

Maka jodohkanlah kami

Tetapi Ya Allah...

Seandainya telah engkau takdirkan

Dia Bukan milikku

Bawalah dia jauh dari pandanganku

Luputkanlah dia dari ingatanku

Dan peliharalah aku dari kekecewaan

Ya Allah Ya Tuhanku yang maha mengerti...

Berikanlah aku kekuatan

Menolak bayangannya jauh ke dada langit

Hilang bersama senja nan merahAgar aku sentiasa tenang

Walaupun tanpa bersama dengannya.

Ya Allah yang tercinta...

Peliharalah aku dengan takdirmu

Sesungguhnya apa yang telah engkau takdirkan

Adalah yang terbaik untukkusesungguhnya engkau maha mengetahui

Segala yang terbaik untuk hambaMu ini....

Dan sekiranya aku menemui seseorang yang baru di dalam hidupku

Kau semaikan lah rasa kasih sayang dan cintaku yang penuh ikhlas kepada dirinya

Agar diriku dan dirinya memahami antara satu sama lain

Dan terbinalah satu ikatan yang lebih suci dan murni

Ya Allah...

Cukuplah engkau sahaja yang menjadi pemeliharaku

Di dunia dan di akhirat

Dan peliharalah kami dari azab api neraka

Amin...amin..yarabbal alamin....

Kenangan itu kadangkala teramat pahit untuk diredah, tetapi ia terlalu manis untuk dikenang. Hidup tak selalunya indah tapi yang indah itu tetap hidup dalam kenangan.Andainya hadirnya cinta sekadar untuk mengecewakan, lebih baik cinta itu tak pernah hadir.Kecewa bercinta bukan bermakna dunia sudah berakhir.Masa depan yang cerah berdasarkan pada masa lalu yang telah dilupakan.

Jika seseorang hadir dalam hidup kamu dan menjadi sebahagian daripada kamu, tetapi atas sebab tertentu dia terpaksa pergi, jangan terlalu sedih, terimalah kenyataan itu dan sekurang-kurangnya dia pernah membahagiakan kamu.

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~Detik-Detik Rasulullah S.A.W Menjelang Sakratul Maut.~

Ada sebuah kisah tentang totalitas cinta yang dicontohkan Allah lewat kehidupan Rasul-Nya.

Pagi itu, meskipun langit telah mulai menguning, burung-burung gurun enggan mengepakkan sayap. Pagi itu, Rasulullah dengan suara terbata memberikan petuah, "Wahai umatku, kita semua ada dalam kekuasaan Allah dan cinta kasih-Nya. Maka taati dan bertakwalah kepada-Nya. Kuwariskan dua hal pada kalian, sunnah dan Al Qur'an. Barang siapa mencintai sunnahku, bererti mencintai aku dan kelak orang-orang yang mencintaiku, akan bersama-sama masuk yurga bersama aku." Khutbah singkat itu diakhiri dengan pandangan mata Rasulullah yang teduh menatap sahabatnya satu persatu. Abu Bakar menatap mata itu dengan berkaca-kaca, Ummar dadanya naik turun menahan napas dan tangis nya. Uthman menghela napas panjang dan Ali menundukkan kepalanya dalam-dalam. Isyarat itu telah datang, saatnya sudah tiba. "Rasulullah akan meninggalkan kita semua," desah hati semua sahabat kala itu.

Manusia tercinta itu, hampir usai menunaikan tugasnya di dunia. Tanda-tanda itu semakin kuat, tatkala Ali dan Fadhal dengan sigap menangkap Rasulullah yang limbung saat turun dari mimbar. Saat itu, seluruh sahabat yang hadir di sana pasti akan menahan detik-detik berlalu, kalau bisa. Matahari kian tinggi, tapi pintu Rasulullah masih tertutup. Sedang di dalamnya, Rasulullah sedang terbaring lemah dengan keningnya yang berkeringat dan membasahi pelepah kurma yang menjadi alas tidurnya. Tiba-tiba dari luar pintu terdengar seorang yang berseru mengucapkan salam. "Bolehkah saya masuk?" tanyanya. Tapi Fatimah tidak mengizinkannya masuk, "Maafkanlah, ayahku sedang demam," kata Fatimah yang membalikkan badan dan menutup pintu. Kemudian ia kembali menemani ayahnya yang ternyata sudah membuka mata dan bertanya pada Fatimah, "Siapakah itu wahai anakku?" "Tak tahulah aku ayah, sepertinya ia baru sekali ini aku melihatnya," tutur Fatimah lembut. Lalu, Rasulullah menatap putrinya itu dengan pandangan yang menggetarkan. Satu-satu bagian wajahnya seolah hendak di kenang. "Ketahuilah, dialah yang menghapuskan kenikmatan sementara, dialah yang memisahkan pertemuan di dunia. ialah malaikat maut," kata Rasulullah, Fatimah pun menahan ledakkan tangisnya. Malaikat maut datang menghampiri, tapi Rasulullah menanyakan kenapa Jibril tak ikut menyertai. Kemudian dipanggilah Jibril yang sebelumnya sudah bersiap diatas langit dunia menyambut roh kekasih Allah dan penghulu dunia ini. "Jibril, jelaskan apa hakku nanti dihadapan Allah?" ,Tanya Rasululllah dengan suara yang amat lemah. "Pintu-pintu langit telah terbuka, para malaikat telah menanti rohmu. Semua syurga terbuka lebar menanti kedatanganmu,"kata jibril. Tapi itu ternyata tak membuat Rasulullah lega, matanya masih penuh kecemasan. "Engkau tidak senang mendengar kabar ini?"Tanya Jibril lagi."Kabarkan kepadaku bagaimana nasib umatku kelak?". "Jangan khuawatir, wahai Rasul Allah, aku pernah mendengar Allah berfirman kepadaku: 'Kuharamkan syurga bagi siapa saja, kecuali umat Muhammad telah berada didalamnya," kata Jibril.

Detik-detik semakin dekat, saatnya Izrail melakukan tugas. Perlahan roh Rasulullah ditarik nampak seluruh tubuh Rasulullah bersimbah peluh, urat-urat lehernya menegang. "Jibril, betapa sakit sakaratul maut ini." Lirih Rasulullah mengaduh. Fatimah terpejam, Ali yang di sampingnya menunduk semakin dalam dan Jibril membuang muka "Jijikkah kau melihatku, hingga kau palingkan wajahmu Jibril?" Tanya Rasulullah pada Malaikat penghantar wahyu itu. "Siapakah yang tega, melihat kekasih Allah direnggut ajal," kata Jibril. Sebentar kemudian terdengar Rasulullah memekik, kerana sakit yang tak tertahankan lagi. "Ya Allah, dahsyat niat maut ini, timpakan saja semua siksa maut ini kepadaku, jangan pada umatku. " Badan Rasulullah mulai dingin, kaki dan dadanya sudah tak bergerak lagi. Bibirnya bergetar seakan hendak membisikkan sesuatu, Ali segera mendekatkan telinganya. "Uushiikum bis shalati, wa maa malakat aimanuku, peliharalah solat dan santuni orang-orang lemah di antaramu" Di luar pintu tangis mulai terdengar bersahutan, sahabat saling berpelukan. Fatimah menutupkan tangan diwajahnya, dan Ali kembali mendekatkan telinganya ke bibir Rasulullah yang mulai kebiruan. "Ummatii, ummatii, ummatiii?" - "Umatku,umatku, umatku" Dan, pupuslah kembang hidup manusia mulia itu.

Kini, mampukah kita mencinta sepertinya? Allahumma sholli 'ala Muhammad wa baarik wasalim 'alaihi. Betapa cintanya Rasulullah kepada kita. Kirimkan kepada sahabat-sahabat muslim lainnya agar timbul kesadaran untuk mencintai Allah dan RasulNya, seperti Allah dan Rasulnya mencinta kita. Kerana sesungguhnya selain daripada itu hanyalah fana belaka.

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~Tiada Lagi Tangisan~

Kini telah lama kita berpisah
Rintihan asmara kian berubah 

Tiada lagi mengharap
Tiada lagi belaian manjamu
Semua telah berakhir

Ketenangan hidup menyinari ku
Keperitan cinta terlerai sudah
Tabahkan lah hati duka nan berduri
Aku mengenali siapakah diriku yang sebenarnya

Tiada lagi tangisan
Tiada lagi air mata
Membasahi jiwa luka
Yang tinggallah hanya memori duka

Semua telah diduga pertemuan kali ini
Takkan berkekalan berakhirnya istana bahagia

Biarkan aku hidup keseorangan
Tak perlu lagi cinta yang menghiris luka
Titisan air mata kini kekeringan
Tak perlu menabur kasihmu..

Ketenangan hidup menyinari ku
Keperitan cinta terlerai sudah
Tabahkanlah hati luka nan berduri
Aku mengenali siapakah diriku yang sebenarnya

Dan tertutup jendela harapan ini
Kau yang menanti kepangkuan ku
Semua takdir yang telah ku temui
Kan ku bina segala tanpamu

Tiada lagi tangisan 
Tiada lagi air mata 
Membasahi jiwa luka 
Yang tinggallah hanya memori duka

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~Lelaki Ensem vs Lelaki Tak Ensem~

Kalau lelaki handsome pendiam
Perempuan akan cakap:: woow, cool giler...
kalau lelaki tak handsome pendiam
Perempuan akan cakap: eh perasan bagus...


kalau lelaki handsome berbuat jahat
perempuan akan kata: nobody's perfect
kalau lelaki tak handsome berbuat jahat
perempuan akan cakap: memang.... muka pun macam pecah rumah! 


kalau lelaki handsome menolong perempuan yg diganggu
perempuan akan cakap: wah.. machonya.. macam hero filem!
kalau lelaki tak handsome menolong perempuan yang diganggu
perempuan akan kata: entah2 kawan dia...


kalau lelaki handsome dapat perempuan cantik
perempuan akan kata: sepadan sangat...
kalau lelaki tak handsome dapat perempuan cantik
perempuan akan kata: mesti kena bomoh perempuan tuh! 


kalau lelaki handsome ditinggal kekasih
perempuan akan kata: jangan sedih, kan saya ada..
kalau lelaki tak handsome ditinggal kekasih
perempuan akan kata:...(terdiam, tapi telunjuknya>> >meliuk-liuk dari atas ke bawah, patutlah, tengok saja luarannya)...


kalau lelaki handsome penyayang binatang
perempuan akan cakap: perasaannya halus...penuh kasih sayang
kalau lelaki tak handsome penyayang binatang
perempuan akan cakap: sesama keluarga memang harus menyayangi...


kalau lelaki handsome bawa BMW
perempuan akan cakap: matching... hebat luar dalam
kalau lelaki tak handsome bawa BMW
perempuan akan cakap: bang, bosnya mana?..


kalau lelaki handsome tak mau bergambar
perempuan akan cakap: pasti takut kalau2 gambarnya tersebar
kalau lelaki tak handsome tak mau bergambar
perempuan akan kata: tak sanggup melihat hasilnya ya?...


kalau lelaki handsome menuang air ke gelas perempuan
perempuan akan cakap:ini barulah lelaki gentlemen
kalau lelaki tak handsome menuang air ke gelas perempuan
perempuan akan cakap: naluri pembantu, memang begitu....


kalau lelaki handsome bersedih hati
perempuan akan cakap: let me be your shoulder to cry on
kalau lelaki tak handsome bersedih hati
perempuan akan kata: kuat nangis!! lelaki ke bukan ni?

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~Quote~

"The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit."-- Christian Nestell Bovee

"To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."-- Buddha (563?-483? BC)

"Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future."-- Diane Elizabeth Duane (b. 1952)

"Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead."-- Jerry Gillies

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."-- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."-- Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."-- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87)

"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does!"-- Richard Exely

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."-- George Burns (1896-1996)

"Golf is like a love affair: if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun. If you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart."-- Arnold Daly

:"To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic." -- Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790-1869)

"Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that."-- Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."-- Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.)

"Berikan hatimu yg masih elok kpd kekasih, dia akan menghancurkannya. Berikan hatimu yg hancur itu kpd ALLAH, nescaya DIA akan memperbaikinya"
~Pepatah Arab

"I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck."-- Kareem Abdul-Jabar (b. 1947)

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."-- Douglas Noel Adams (b. 1952),

"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."-- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821-81), Swiss philosopher

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."-- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."-- Walter Bagehot (1826-77)

"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance."-- James Arthur Baldwin (1924-87)

"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."-- Warren G. Bennis (b. 1925)

"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."-- Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962)

"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."-- Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Anglo-Irish novelist

"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."-- Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919-88)

"Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it."-- Dr. Joyce (Diane Bauer) Brothers (b. 1929)

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person."-- Dr. David M. Burns

"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce."-- Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877-1965)

"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

"More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams."-- Amy Grant

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated."-- Edith Hamilton (1867-1963)

"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."-- Arnold H. Glasgow

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."-- African Proverb

"Behind an able man there are always other able men."-- Chinese Proverb

"You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you."-- Ruth Smeltzer

"Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough."--Unknown

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."-- African Proverb

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."-- Aristotle (384-322 BC)

"Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth."-- Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901)

"It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore."-- Alex Carey

"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk."-- Rosalynn Smith Carter (b. 1928), US First Lady

"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."-- Karen Casey

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life Is the source from which self-respect springs."-- Joan Didion

"It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing."-- Jim Dodge (b. 1945)


"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."-- Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963)

"Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted."-- Rena Harmon

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."--Napolean Hill

"Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage."-- John Andrew Holmes, Jr.
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."-- W(illiam) Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."-- Edward R(oscoe) Murrow (1908-65)

"A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable."-- Ene Riisna

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."-- Orville Wright

"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."-- Edward Albee

"You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength."-- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)

"Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry."-- Anouk Aimée (b. 1932), French actor

"As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."-- James Lane Allen (1849-1923)

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."-- Margaret Anderson

"The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives."-- Father Andrew SDC

"The one who loves the least, controls the relationship."-- Robert Newton Anthony (b. 1916),

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."-- Janos Arany (1817-82), Hungarian poet

"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies."-- Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"--Paul Aubuchon

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."-- Paul Aubuchon

"In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh."-- Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-73)

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me."-- Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-73)

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."-- Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."-- Marcus Aelius Aurelius (121-180 AD)

"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."-- Marcus Aelius Aurelius (121-180 AD)

"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering."-- Jane Austen (1775-1817)

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."--Jane Austen (1775-1817)

"All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love."-- Sri da Avabhas (Adi Da Samraj)

"It is impossible to love and to be wise."-- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness, and tied with love."-- L. O. Baird

"The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."-- James Arthur Baldwin (1924-87)

"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance."-- James Arthur Baldwin (1924-87)

"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."-- James Arthur Baldwin (1924-87)

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."-- Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea."-- Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."-- Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

"The more one judges, the less one loves."-- Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive."-- Orlando A. Battista

"We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself."-- R. J. Baugha

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."-- Brendan Francis Behan (1923-64)

"To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.-- Bernard Iddings Bell

"True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is."--Brad Bell

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."-- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."-- Ingrid Bergman (1915-82)

"I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste."-- David Bissonette

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."-- Thomas Edward Bodett (b. 1955)

"She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns."-- Olga Brouman

"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."-- Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944)

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."-- Jean de La Bruyère (1645-96)

"There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be."-- Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973)

"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."-- Dr. (Felice) Leo(nardo) Buscaglia (b. 1924),

"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy."-- Dr. (Felice) Leo(nardo) Buscaglia (b. 1924)

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."-- Comte de Bussy-Rabnutin

"It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."-- Samuel Butler (1612-80)

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."--Carmichael

"Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above."-- Julia A. Fletcher Carney

"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip."-- Jonathan Carroll (b. 1949)

"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough."-- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."-- Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947)

"I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony."-- Catullus

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

"That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."-- Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

"There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time."-- Coco Chanel (1883-1971)

"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."-- John Cheever (1912-82)

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life."-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."-- Colley Cibber (1671-1757)


"For those who love it, cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love."-- Craig Claiborne

"I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone."-- William F(rancis) Claire (b. 1935)

"I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye."-- Leonard (Norman) Cohen (b. 1934)

"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love."-- Frank Moore Colby (1865-1925)

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never."-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."-- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."-- Pierre Corneille (1606-84)

"I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise."-- Noel Coward

"I love youNot only for what you areBut for what I amWhen I am with you."--Roy Croft

"We need not think alike to love alike."-- Francis David (b. 1900)

"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime."-- Bette Davis (1908-89)

"One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful; joy softens more hearts than tears do."-- Mme. de Sartory

"A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind."-- Richard Dehmel (1863-1920)

"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."-- Marlene Dietrich (1901-92)

"Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other."-- Isak Dinesen (1885-1962)

"For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught."-- Baba Dioum

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."--Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli (1804-81)

"Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere."-- John Donne (1572-1631)

"At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds."-- Michael Dorris

"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering."--Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-81),

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish."-- Christopher S. Drew

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."-- Henry Drummond (1851-97)

"Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are."-- John Dryden (1631-1700)

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."-- Alexandre Dumas (1802-70)

"In love there are no vacations … No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."-- Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."-- Lawrence George Durrell (1912-90)

"Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not."-- Henry Van Dyke

"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."-- Umberto Eco

"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."-- George Eliot (1819-80)

"Love and you shall be loved."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)

"The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)

"Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other."-- Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass."-- Euripides (480?-406 BC)

"Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind."-- Eve, Rapper

"Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant."-- Edna Ferber

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."-- Ella Fitzgerald

"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes."-- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969)

"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly."-- Rose Dorothy Franken (1895-1988)

"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."--Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)

"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."-- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."-- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."-- Erich Fromm (1900-80)

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"-- Erich Fromm (1900-80)

"Life goes through changes so fast, you think your life is great, than one of your best friends dies. Then you think you found someone you truly love, only to figure out, she doesn't love you back. You cry and cry and cry, but nothing changes. You realize, that you must accept things for what they are, and what they have made you become.Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes, you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There's always tomorrow."-- Adam R. Gwizdala

"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."-- Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh

"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change."-- Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh

"Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted."-- Rena Harmon

"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."-- Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)

"The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."-- Helen Hayes (b. 1900)

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

"Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing."-- Donna Hedges

"Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals."-- Cynthia Heimel
"A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you."-- Doris Wild Helmering

"If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it."-- Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think."-- Robert Henri

"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well."--Oliver Herford (1863-1935

"The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons."-- George T. Hewitt

"You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave."-- Billie Holiday

"...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned."-- John Holt

"You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time."-- Gordie Howe

"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia."-- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915),

"The love we give away is the only love we keep."-- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"-- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation."-- Victor Hugo (1802-85)

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."-- Victor Hugo (1802-85)

"If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough."-- Ann Landers

"To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission."-- Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-74)

"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."--W(illiam) Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

"If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough."-- Ann Landers, American journalist, editor More about the author

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."-- Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.), Legendary Chinese philosopher More about the author

"The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem."-- Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.), Legendary Chinese philosopher More about the author

"To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work."--Sister Mary Lauretta More about the author

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