Dont Search For Happines
JANGAN MENCARI KEBAHAGIAN
Banyak orang yang mencari kebahagiaan sejati dengan berbagai cara,
namun, seringkali malah menderita hidupnya. Seringkali yang didapat
hanya kebahagiaan sementara, atau semu.
Narkotika, dugem, alkohol,
kesenangan pribadi, dan berbagai candu lainnya; cenderung justru
menghancurkan pada akhirnya.
Lalu saya menemukan quote dari Nenek
Eleanor yang bagus ini :
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Kebahagian sejati bukan tujuan, tetapi adalah hasil sampingan
(dari pekerjaan lainnya).
Apa “pekerjaan lain”-nya itu? Salah satunya mungkin
adalah ini.
Ada banyak lagi quote bijak lainnya dari ibu yang satu ini.
Selamat menikmati.
What is to give light must endure the burning.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to
grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is
a frightening prospect.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because
without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a
fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift
should be curiosity.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape
ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we
make are ultimately our own responsibility.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
Understanding is a two-way street.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may
not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to
everyone, rich or poor.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores
faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to
priority.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are
able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take
the next thing that comes along.’
