QUOTES - JOHN C MAXWELL

Success is a continuing thing;

It is growth and development.

It is achieving one thing and using that as a steppping

stone to achieve something else.

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The highest 

reward for your work is not what you get for it, but what

you become by it.

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Life is like riding in a taxi.

Whether you are going anywhere or not, 

the meter keeps ticking

'PONDERS END' - ENFIELD - A REMINISCENT

I took a fancy for the "title".... been there in 1985

BEING KIND TO YOURSELF IN MOMENTS OF STRESS

When the stresses of life set in, take a moment and do something kind for yourself. Take a bubble bath and have a long soak. Put on your favourite music CD. Take a much-needed nap. Being kind to yourself will open your heart and mind again to the doors of possibility and the solutions to your problem.

FOOD FOR THE HEART

Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. JOHN-ROGER

TRUSTING YOUR OWN CAPABILITIES

You are born with talents, capabilities, a thinking brain and a loving heart. Reflect - when faced with challenges in life, do you forget your wonderful capabilities or do you make full use of them? Have faith and trust in your own capabilities. You will soon find every challenge lighter and every battle easier to win.

FOOD FOR THE HEART

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. E.H. HARRIMAN

PROCRASTINATION

By the streets of "by and by," one arrives at the house of "never." - Cervantes

Never put off till tomorrow that which you can do today. - Franklin

Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it. - Charles Buxton

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity! - Max Muller

To be always intending to live a new life, but never do find time to set about it: this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed - Tillotson

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. - Young

Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. - Congreve

MOTIVATION

Dr. Hajo Meyer, a NAZI holocaust survivor and a passionate anti-Zionist when asked why he was still campaigning at the age of 82 even though he was being reviled by Zionism, he replied: "The first person I see when I get up in the morning is me."

"Heaven and Hell are states of the mind. Hell is when you know that the end of your life is approaching and that you have not used your talents and resources as well as you could have done to make a difference - ie. when you realise upon reflection that you have wasted your life.

Heaven is contemplation of the approach of death without fear because you know that on balance, you have done your best to make a difference." - Allan Hart, Independent thinker

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure. - Kal Menninger

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently. - Palladas

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
- Solomon ibn Gabriol

TEASERS.....

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal: nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson




There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you

David Burns, Intimate Connections





Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking

William B. Sprague

TIME TO PONDER......

OVERFLOWING YOUR LIFE WITH KINDNESS

In every single moment and minute of your life, be kind to yourself, your family and all others around you, including the strangers on the street.
Kindness inspires love.
Anger or control inspires fear.
How would you like to lead your life - in love or in fear?

FOOD FOR THE HEART:
Kind words can be short, but their echoes are endless - MOTHER TERESA

BEING THANKFUL FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS ALREADY YOU

You have gone through a wealth of experiences and come a long way to be who you are today.
Give thanks to all the positive experiences which have shaped you into who you are today.
Learn from the life's lessons and stressful times that have made you stronger.

FOOD FOR THE HEART:
Be content with what you have: rejoice in the way things are. When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. - LAO TZU

LETTING GO OF PAST HURTS AND GRIEVANCES

Holding on to past hurts and grievances eats you away slowly.
Be a bigger person and forgive others or what they have done to you, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Allowing bygones to be bygones releases you from the shackles of emotional pain and grants you FREEDOM.

FOOD FOR THE HEART
"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?" - JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

FIRST TO BATA THEN TO SCHOOL.....

EDUCATION

Education is the apprenticeship of life - Willmott

The school should always have as its aim that the young man leave it as a harmonious personality, not as a specialist. This in my opinion is true in a certain sense even for technical schools....The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgement should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge - Albert Einstein

My schoolgirl handwriting

Text from Romeo and Juliet

Manuscript handwriting - needed a steady hand with nib, holder dipped in Indian ink

My SCHOOL DAYS TREASURE

What is this 'taugeh' handwriting (subtly), asked a cousin. (bluntly) What is this 'cacing' (wormy) handwriting.

Pitman Shorthand: Mastering Shorthand skill one needs to understand the theory. With a "photographic" memory helps a lot to a student.

Transcription: My family, my home

Handsome Daddy, beautiful Mommy, playful Janice naughty Dennis noisy baby Diana and me. I love my family. My family loves me. I like our home in Sembawang because every morning I can see the sun rise over the mountain.

Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large term of education. The feelings are to be disciplined; the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances. All this is comprised in education. - Daniel Webster