1/9/10

2009 quotes

Dahil sa 5S, i was forced to clean up my cube at office. and consequently, i have to let go of my 2009 desk calendar given by sir john =(. over the past year, whenever i come across nice quotes, i made it a habit to write i down there. and so now, i transfer the quotes i listed down to my blog, a better way to preserve words of wisdom hehe

January

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be part of - Geri Weitzman

The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will - Chuck Palahniuk

The toughest issues any of us face are those involving "right vs right". The problem? There are no wrongs to avoid. - David Cottrell

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope - Martin Luther King Jr.

February

Generosity is giving more than you can and pride is taking less than you need - Kahlil Gibran

Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is true as ever - Deng Ming Dao

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all - St. Augustine

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction - Antoine de St. Exupery

Aim at the sun, you may not reach it, but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object at level with urself - Joel Hawkes

March

For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will see me and find me when you seek me with all your heart - Jer 29: 11 -13

April

To open your hear means risking it all, to experience great joy and profound sorrow - Tom Mathhews

May
Welcome true love not by finding the perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly - Angelina Jolie

Today I am grateful for all those things that go missing because their absence reminds me of how blessed I am to have had them all - Kate Novak

June

Someday, somewhere, anywhere, unfalilingly you'll find yourself and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life - Pablo Neruda

Every beginning is a consequence, every beginning ends something - Paul Valery

Always keep your words soft just in case you have to eat them - andy rooney

I keep mm ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart - Anne Frank


Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing - Optimus Prime

July

Creating the space to allow others in your heart means letting go of old issues - Tin Touber

Wisdom says do all you can within your strength, then trust him to do what you cannot do.

Life isn't a matter of milestone but of moments.

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him yours - Zig Ziglar

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. - Nora Roberts

But what is happening except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus

If you enter the world knowing you are loved and you leave the world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with - michael jackson

the significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain - kahlil gibran

August

The shortest way to do many things is one at a time - Richard Cech

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow. - mary ann radmacher

adopt yourself to the life you have been given and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you - Marcus Aurelius


September

Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you - Madeline Bridges

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way. Wisdom is looking in both directions anyway - anonymous

October

Surprises by their nature come in disguise, masked sometimes as disappointments or detours when they are in fact dreams turning solid if you'll just step aside and give them some air - nancy gibbs

when you are sorrowful look again in your heart and you shall see that in truth, you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation - Carl Holmes

Losers see thunderstorms, winners see rainbows. Losers see icy streets, winners put on ice skates - Dennis Waitley

November

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve - john Maxwell

appreciate people, nothing gives more joy than appreciation - Ruth Smelter

Buliding and understanding support and acceptance begins with earning trust - David Cottrell

When you finally allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it, you will find you dance with everything - Pat Rodecast

December

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was thank you, that would suffice - Meister Eckhart

The greater part of happiness depends on dispositions and not on circumstances - martha washington

somedays there won't ba a song in your heart, sing anyway - emory austin