2008/10/31
101 of the World's Most Inspirational Quotes collected by Phillip Humbert
2. "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." – Mother Teresa
3. "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." – Ayn Rand
4. "Imagine." – John Lennon
5. "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expected to give... Which is everything." – Katherine Hepburn
6. "Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning." – Mahatma Gandhi
7. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." – Calvin Coolidge
8. "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind!" – William James
9. "Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow!" – Norman Vincent Peale
10. "Try not to become a man (person) of success but rather try to become a man of value." – Albert Einstein
11. "We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined." – N. Scott Momaday
12. "What a pity that so many people rather believe their doubts and doubt their beliefs.… Why don't we just decide to have no doubts, and believe our beliefs! Fear and worry is just the misuse of the creative powers we originally got to dream." – Jannie Putter
13. "When the light has sharply faded and you have lost your way, let another's love guide you. It can turn blackest night into day." – Kevin Meyers
14. "As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." – Marianne Williamson
15. "Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." – Dale E. Turner
16. "I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new possibility is liable to come along and spin you off in an entirely new direction. The trick, I've learned, is to be awake to the moment." – Doug Hall
17. "Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination." – Carol Lloyd
18. "Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine... [your] values and goals...Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." – Marsha Sinetar
19. "Nothing happens unless first a dream." – Carl Sandburg
20. "Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance." – Bruce Barton
21. "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." – T. S. Eliot
22. "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." – George Bernard Shaw
23. "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." – Bertrand Russell
24. "We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility." – Albert Einstein
25. "When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." – Audre Lorde
26. "Work and play are the same. When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves." – Shakti Gawain
27. "Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be." – Morris Adler
28. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt
29. "The man who has no imagination has no wings." – Muhammad Ali
30. "Always know in your heart that you are far bigger than anything that can happen to you." – Dan Zadra
31. "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’." – Erma Bombeck
32. "Never underestimate the power of passion." – Eve Sawyer
33. "Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." – Harriet Rubin
34. "One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar." – Helen Keller
35. "How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but (instead) someone." – Coco Chanel
36. "Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from." – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
37. "Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly." – Lauren Bacall
38. "Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - ‘If I had my life to live over, I’d do it all the same.’" – Joan McIntosh
39. "I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. It is only a question of loving them enough." – Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
40. "Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right. Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it." – George Eliot
41. "Parents can only give good advice or put one on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." – Anne Frank
42. "Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice." – Ellen Glasgow
43. "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." – Helen Keller
44. "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt
45. "Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees." – Karle Wilson
46. "Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." – Erica Jong
47. "I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." – Anne Frank
48. "I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy." – Louise Bogan
49. "There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others." – Martha Graham
50. "Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character." – Anthony Robbins
51. "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks, as if they were great and noble." – Helen Keller
52. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt
53. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." – Erica Jong
54. "Don't be prisoner of your past, but the archetect of your future." – Unknown
55. "Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it." – Mae West
56. "I want to do it because I want to do it." – Amelia Earhart
57. "You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." – Joan Baez
58. "You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt
59. "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." – Pamela Vaull Starr
60. "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down." – Mary Pickford
61. "Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use." – Ruth Gordon
62. "If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win." – Shelley Long
63. "When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her." – Marianne Williamson
64. "We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world." – Mother Teresa
65. "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." – Pericles
66. "Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." – Viktor Frankl
67. "The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." – Louise Hay
68. "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." – Richard Bach
69. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." – Albert Einstein
70. "Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is." – David O. McKay
71. "Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." – Stephen Covey
72. "The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for." – Dostoyevsky
73. "Our greatest fear is not that we are powerless. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." – Marianne Williamson
74. "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens." – Carl Jung
75. "I'm never sure until I've begun putting words on the page, and they suddenly start pulling me along, where before I'd been pushing them, that it's going to work this time, that it's going to catch fire..." – Joan Bolker
76. "Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible." – Richard Bach
77. "Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts." – Henry David Thoreau
78. "Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them. " – Josie Bisset
79. "For me, security is not knowing what's going to happen. Because if I don't know, it could be terrific." – Gloria Steinem
80. "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." – John Dewey
81. "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." – Wayne Dyer
82. "There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." – Louis L'Amour
83. "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" – Anne Frank
84. "If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances." – Julia Soul
85. "The soul enters thru the wound of defeat." – K. Bly
86. "The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire." – Brian Tracy
87. "The only limits are, as always, those of vision." – James Broughton
88. "The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little." – Thomas Merton
89. "The strongest single factor in prosperity consiousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it." – Jerry Gillies
90. "Change your thoughts and you change your world." – Norman Vincent Peale
91. "Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark." – Rabindranath Tagore
92. "The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." – Ivy Baker Priest
93. " One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light." – Joseph Campbell
94. "Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it." – Elaine St. James
95. "Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really very frightening." – Gertrude Stein
96. "It only takes one person to change your life -- you." – Ruth Casey
97. "Tears are like rain. They loosen up our soil so we can grow in different directions." – Virginia Casey
98. "Don't worry about whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter 1. We have yet to write the book." – Lois Wyse
99. "God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability." – Mary Kay Ash
100. "Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God." – Mary Manin Morrissey
101. "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." – Ray Bradbury
2008/10/29
Cỏ 4 lá
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Hạnh phúc cho người quan trọng nhất.
Giữa nơi đồng vắng, loài cây bụi không tên.
Vươn mình đón nắng.
Vươn mình đón gió.
Cỏ ba lá sống bên cây bụi.
Cỏ yêu cây.
Luôn muốn thấy cây hạnh phúc.
Một ngày kia, cây bụi vượt lên khỏi mặt đất.
Chợt bắt gặp ánh mặt trời.
Mặt trời rực rỡ.
Mặt trời mạnh mẽ.
Mặt trời.
Mặt trời...
Cây bụi muốn vươn tới mặt trời.
Gắng vươn cao
Gắng nở những đoá hoa xinh đẹp
Nhưng cố gắng chỉ là vô ích
Nơi đồng hoang, những đoá hướng dương xinh đẹp nở rộ.
Hướng dương hướng về mặt trời.
Ai cũng hiểu.
Cây bụi hướng về mặt trời.
Chẳng ai hay
Chẳng ai hay ngoài cỏ ba lá
Cây bụi không có sắc hoa vàng óng ả, chỉ một màu trắng mỏng manh.
Cây bụi có hương thơm dịu ngọt.
Nhưng hương thơm ấy mãi mãi chẳng thể vươn tới trời xanh
Cây bụi không muốn làm cây bụi.
Cây bụi muốn có tên.
Chim bay qua: "Chào cây bụi!"
Gió lùa qua: "Chào cây bụi!
Cây bụi không tên chẳng thể có tên.
Và mặt trời chẳng bao giờ biết tới một cây bụi vô danh
Người ta nói cỏ bốn lá có thể biến ước mơ thành sự thật.
Cây bụi mải miết tìm kiếm.
Ôm ấp mộng hướng dương - mặt trời.
Cỏ bốn lá, cánh cỏ bốn lá.
Tuyệt vọng !
Đau khổ
Không có cỏ bốn lá.
Cây bụi mãi mãi là cây bụi không tên.
Vậy còn cần gì sự tồn tại này nữa
Những đoá hoa trắng héo tàn
Cỏ hoảng hốt
Cỏ sợ hãi.
Tại sao chỉ có ba lá?
Tại sao không thể làm gì cho người thương?
Cây bụi chết dần.
Cỏ ba lá cầu xin với gió.
Hãy bứt tung một cánh cỏ đi.
Và xé đôi trái tim xanh thẫm.
Vì cây bụi.
Cỏ ba lá trở thành bốn lá.
Một buổi sáng,
Cây bụi chợt nghe tiếng gọi.
Một nhành cỏ bốn lá.
Cỏ bốn lá.
Điều ước của cây bụi sẽ trở thành sự thật.
Cây tin sẽ có ngày vươn tới bên mặt trời.
Bởi cỏ bốn lá đang hiện hữu.
Cỏ ba lá, mất đi một lá, dần mất đi sự sống.
Cỏ tan biến cùng lời hứa
Sẽ thực hiện ước vọng của cây.
Nơi đồng hoang, loài cây không tên kiên cường chống chọi.
Để có ngày cây vươn tới mặt trời.
Truyền thuyết cỏ 4 lá
Có câu chuyện kể về cỏ 4 lá: " Đó là nơi các thiên thần ngự trị nên nó là sự tượng trưng của sự may mắn, tình yêu, hạnh phúc... và tất cả những điều tốt lành trên thế gian". Bởi bình thường chỉ có 3 lá thôi , nhưng đôi khi hiếm hoi có 1 nhánh 4 lá và đó 1à điều đặc biệt.
Cỏ ba lá sẽ rất hiếm khi có 4 lá. Tỷ lệ 1/10000
Một nhánh là NIỀM TIN....
Hai nhánh là HY VỌNG....
Ba nhánh là TÌNH YÊU....
Bốn nhánh là MAY MẮN....
Câu chuyện kể rằng đứa bé trên thế gian can đảm bước vào rừng sâu, đi mãi đi mãi qua bao thác ghềnh với một trái tim dũng cảm sẽ tìm được loại cỏ bốn lá (four-leaf clover) - loại cỏ sẽ mang lại nụ cười hạnh phúc mãi mãi - nụ cười hạnh phúc của trẻ thơ. Khi tìm được ngọn cỏ bốn lá, đứa trẻ sẽ đứng trong gió, đặt ngọn cỏ vào trái tim nồng ấm và hát khúc ca đồng dao. Mỗi lá trên ngọn cỏ tượng trưng cho một thứ quý giá nhất của cuộc sống.
Lá thứ nhất đứa bé thì thầm: đó là niềm hi vọng
Lá thứ hai đứa bé mỉm cười: là niềm tin
Lá thứ ba : là tình yêu
Và lá cuối cùng: là sự may mắn
Bốn món quà thượng đế ban tặng cho mỗi đứa trẻ khi chúng mới ra đời nhưng để tìm được chúng đứa trẻ ấy phải mãi đi tìm, tìm trong rừng sâu của cuộc đời với trái tim dũng cảm... Truyền thuyết vẫn tiếp tục đến ngày hôm nay, và truyền thuyết mãi là truyền thuyết vì mỗi đứa trẻ sinh ra lớn lên mãi đi tìm công danh và sự nghiệp nên chúng lãng quên con đường tìm đến với ngọn cỏ bốn lá mà thượng đế trao cho. Đến khi chúng vấp ngã, chúng mới nhớ đến khúc đồng dao của ngày xưa. Chúng thẫn thờ và than thở:
“Where is my the four-leaf clover?”
Nhưng đứa trẻ đâu biết thượng đế trên cao đang mỉm cười:
Khi đứa trẻ đau vì vấp ngã, đó là tình yêu
Khi đứa trẻ tin rằng mình không cô độc khi vấp ngã, đó là niềm tin
Khi đứa trẻ nhìn thấy những đứa trẻ khác còn đau khổ hơn mình, đó là sự may mắn
Và khi đứa trẻ nghĩ rằng mình phải đứng dậy là đi tiếp, đó là niềm hi vọng...
Từ đấy người người cho rằng ai thấy cỏ 4 lá sẽ gặp may mắn cũng như ước mơ trở thành hiện thực
... và..... nếu...
......trên đời này thật sự có "cây cỏ 4 lá"......thì....
.......... bằng mọi giá... tôi sẽ đi tìm nó về cho bạn.......
.............. bởi vì tôi muốn... bạn của tôi.... luôn..... hạnh phúc, vui vẻ và may mắn
Cỏ 3 lá tượng trưng cho sự may mắn, cho ước mơ sẽ thành sự thật.Nếu tìm dc cỏ có 4 lá bạn ước 1 điều ước thì điều ước đó sẽ thành hiện thực.... (mong là sự thật)