Monday, April 30, 2007

OLD MALAYA SECURITY FORCE UNIFORM

“The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.”

Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941)

Sunday, April 29, 2007

WATER DRAIN

“Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.”

Chogyam Trungpa

Saturday, April 28, 2007

TESTIMONY OF THE TREE

For a hundred years I breathe and live, the flower of beauty and the bread of kindness. I am your friendly shade in the noonday heat of summer, and I stand pencilled against the winter twilight, a silhouette for dreams. At dawning in the spring I am filled with song, the host to a thousand birds, and I decorate the autumn with pageantry and colour.

Then comes the woodsman with his axe.

And still I serve.

I am the timber that builds your boat; the rafters of your cathedrals; the choirstalls of your church enriched by the magic of the carver's fingers. I am the beam that holds your house; the door of your homestead, and the lintel too. I am the handle of your hoe; the wood of your cradle; the bed on which you lie; the board of your table and the board for your bread.

When I am living, harm me not.

When I am dead, respect me and use me kindly.

Anonymous

Friday, April 27, 2007

FEELING BLUE

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Monk, Activist and Writer. b.1926)

Thursday, April 26, 2007

HANGING MERCHANDISES FOR SALE

“The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.”

Marcelene Cox

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

BARREN HILL

“You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”

Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf (American Army Officer, b.1934)

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

STOCK TRADING LIVES

“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”

Chamfort (French playwright, 1741-1794)

Monday, April 23, 2007

KNOCKING ON IRON GATE

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (the most popular American Poet in the 19th century, 1807-1882)

Sunday, April 22, 2007

TRAFFIC STOP SIGN

“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

Mary Kay Ash (American businesswoman, She founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (1963). b.1915)

Saturday, April 21, 2007

WOODEN LOGS

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Pilot, Writer and Author of 'The Little Prince', 1900-1944)

Friday, April 20, 2007

GLASS DOOR

“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.”

Buddha (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)

Thursday, April 19, 2007

THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH WITHIN

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

Sophia Loren (Italian film Actress, b.1934)

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

HOUSING LIFE ESSENTIALS

“The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.”

Bertrand Russell (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

TV FRIENDS

Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreign language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch.”

Anonymous

Monday, April 16, 2007

LONELY CORRIDOR

“You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.”

John Huston (American Film Director whose taut dramas were some of the most popular films from the 1940s on. 1906-1987)

Sunday, April 15, 2007

SEAT OF KNOWLEDGE

“The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”

William Hazlitt (British Writer, best known for his humanistic essays. 1778-1830)

Saturday, April 14, 2007

THE SEA, THE SKY, THE SOUL

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul

Victor Hugo (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)

Friday, April 13, 2007

WAITING IN LINE

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”

Anne Lamott (American best-selling author)

Thursday, April 12, 2007

DARK CLOUDY DAY IN THE CITY

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

John Ruskin (English Writer and Critic of art, architecture, and society, 1819-1900)

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

CONSTRUCTION SITE

“When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.”

Herbert Hoover (American President, 1874-1964)

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

FLOWER BOUQUET ARRANGEMENT

“Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires

Marcelene Cox

Monday, April 9, 2007

BRIGHT SUNNY ROAD

“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.”

Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

Sunday, April 8, 2007

OILY WATER SEPARATOR

“One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again”

Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)


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Saturday, April 7, 2007

SEEING RED

“Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.”

Jules Feiffer

Friday, April 6, 2007

LOCAL POLICE STATION

“We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship," we call it "concern for commercial viability."”

David Mamet (American Playwright, b.1947)

Thursday, April 5, 2007

PURPLE FLOWER

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”

Alice Walker (American writer, b.1944)

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

CRAMPED SHOPHOUSES

Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned”

Buddha (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

LEAKY ROOF

"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof - it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."

James Russell Lowell

Monday, April 2, 2007

BRICK WALL

“It can be frustrating hitting these kind of brick walls, but you have to be patient. It's kind of like finding buried treasure — it's never easy, and takes a lot of searching, but in the end is very rewarding.”

Cheryl Hamann quotes

Sunday, April 1, 2007

GREEN FRUIT TREE

“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)