This Page kept a listing of quotes, guidance and advices I picked
up along my journey through my reading of published materials in this
interesting world.
In an imperfect world, we have to search for the best accommodation
possible. And no accommodation is permanent. If it lasts long enough for
progress to make until the next set of arrangement can be put in place, let us
be grateful for it.
Lee Kuan Yew, Oct 1981 - Extract
from Singapore's foreign policy: coping with vulneralty.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his
enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
The Chinese practice which westerners call ancestor worship is not really
worship. It is instead, a public remembrance of ancestor. For Chinese the past
flows into the present, forming a timeless fount to nurture the future.
Something not forgotten cannot die
Paul Leppert
The is the nature of democratic election. You want the vote. Time is
short, you can't change the mind of large number of people. So you have
to humour them, knowing that its wrong. And then you have to find a way
to half humour them and give them half what you promised!
Unknown
Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right
person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and
in the right way -- that is not easy!
Aristotle
A man must decide what he should not do, then he can concentrate to
do what he should do!
Muncius
What your mind conceived, your mind can achieve
Maxim
Hold fast to your dreams, for if dreams die, then life is like a broken
winged bird that cannot fly......
Longston Hughes
Wonderous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance
-- the cheerful person will do more in the same time, will do it better,
will preserve it longer, then the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious to be able to
decide
- Napolean I
Maxims (1804-15)
Those things that hurt, INSTRUCT !
Benjamin Franklin
The problem with hard decision was not making them, but learning to
live with the consequences, however neccessary.
