2009 - 新的一年，新的开始，一切会更好 (^-^)

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当我们撕下最后一张日历，
也就告诉我们，过去的已经过去，
不好的就随那张日历而去，好的让它成为回忆。
未来是未知数，所以拥有每天的今天才是最实际，
珍惜今天，在乎今天，珍惜我们所拥有，
珍惜我们身边一切的一切，懂得珍惜，就是幸福。
让我们以欢心迎接2009年，一定会比往年更好，
我忠心祝福你：事事顺心，平安健康！

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year
A smile for the sweet memories,
a valued experience from the obstacles,
goodbye 2008 and welcome 2009.
Wishing you a year full of happiness and good health.
Happy New Year to you!

Smile Always =)

I Just Smile And Look Pretty
Every Little Smile Can Touch Somebody's Heart.
May You Find Hundreds of Reasons to Smile &
May You Be the Reason for Someone Else's Smile Always.
Have A Great Smiling Day! =)

The Story of Love

Love And Dreams
A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said, “I don’t think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat.”

“Is the man of the house home?” they asked.

“No”, she said. “He’s out.”

“Then we cannot come in”, they replied.

In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. “Go tell them I am home and invite them in,” he said.

The woman went out and invited the men in. “We do not go into a house together,” they replied.

“Why is that?” she wanted to know.

One of the old men explained: “His name is Wealth,” he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, “He is Success, and I am Love.” Then he added, “Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home.”

The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. “How nice!” he said. “Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!”

His wife disagreed. “My dear, why don’t we invite Success?”

Their daughter-in-law who was listening from the other corner of the house, jumped in with her own suggestion: “Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!”

“Let us heed our daughter-in-law’s advice,” said the husband to his wife. “Go out and invite Love to be our guest.”

The woman went out and asked the three old men, “Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest.” Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and followed him.

Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: “I only invited Love, why are you coming in?”

The old men replied together: “If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would’ve stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!”

Quotes on Love

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"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
- Robert Heinlein

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. "
- Julins Gordon

"Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have."
- Anonymous

"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world."
- Anonymous

"You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh,
but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry."
- Anonymous

"Love is not about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship.
It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end."
- Anonymous

"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
- Leo Buscaglia

"Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others."
- Brian Tracy

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
- Henry Drummond

Counting down to Christmas! (^-^)

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

路一直都在

刚才收拾储藏室时，看到一盒装满着旧信件和卡片的盒子。。。 看到十年前，同窗好友（B）写给我的一些信件和另个好友（A）送的生日卡片。。。。。 让我想起曾经我们三剑客的友情是如此的深厚，如此的投机，但为一些误解而各分东西了。

这么多年来，我还是很想念我们三剑客在一起的时光，我相信我这辈子也不可能忘记。可是过去已经过去，一切也不能挽回了。

感谢A和B曾和我一同走过的一段路，我会珍藏这些美好的回忆。希望你们都过得很好。。。 希望B已放下不愉快的过去，“永远向前 路一直都在”

Smile from Your Heart (^-^)

World is Full of Beauty

The joy that you give to others is the joy that goes back to you.
A happy heart makes the face cheerful.
May your day be as happy as your heart.
Have a Happy, Wonderful Day (^-^)

My Favourite Quotes

Words to Live by: Life

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you
as by the attitude you bring to life;
not so much what happens to you
as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
- Kahlil Gibran

"A ship in harbour is safe but that is not what ships are built for."
- William Shedd

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills

"Losing hurts
but it hurts even more
when you realise that you haven't done your best."
- Anonymous

"If you don't have a vision for the future,
then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past. "
- A. R. Bernard

"You don't have to ask for what you need
as long as you don't mind not getting it. "
- Anonymous

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the external hanging on of an uncompleted task."
- William James

"If you keep doing what you have been doing,
you will keep getting what you have been getting."
- Anonymous

"If you are miserable about all the things you want and haven't got,
think about all the things you don't want and haven't got."
- Anonymous

“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy,
but it’s good to check up once in a while to make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.”
- George Claude Lorimer

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen,or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller

"The man with no shoes grumbled in the street, until he met a man with no feet."
- Anonymous

"Failure is not falling down.
Failure is not getting back up."
- Anonymous

Maybe Someday? . . . Maybe Today!

Someday I'm Gonna Be King!

Maybe Someday
you will start living every day true to the best that is within you
and seriously pursue your most treasured dreams.

Maybe Someday
you will stop holding back and live the richness of every moment
and show the world who you really are.

Maybe Someday
you will explore the best of these possibilities
that you know in your heart are there.

Maybe Someday
you will see how truly beautiful life can be and
understand that nothing can hold you back.

Maybe Someday
you will wake up, see how useless most of your worries have been
and stop letting others hold you back.

Maybe Someday
you will decide that your life cannot wait any longer and
you wonder why you ever waited so long to start living.

Maybe Someday you will decide to Go For Your Dreams!

Maybe Someday is Coming.

Maybe Someday is Here!

Maybe Someday is TODAY!

Quotes on Effort

Effort
"You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile."
- Brian Tracy

"Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is he price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price."
- Vince Lombardi

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it."
- Anonymous

"For things to get better, we have to get better.
Today will be much like yesterday unless we put in that effort."
- Anonymous

"Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still."
- Chinese Proverb

Easy vs Difficult

It's Easy

Easy is to get a place is someone's address book.
Difficult is to get a place in someone's heart.

Easy is to judge the mistakes of others.
Difficult is to recognize our own mistakes.

Easy is to talk without thinking.
Difficult is to refrain the tongue

Easy is to hurt someone who loves us.
Difficult is to heal the wound...

Easy is to forgive others.
Difficult is to ask for forgiveness.

Easy is to set rules.
Difficult is to follow them...

Easy is to dream every night.
Difficult is to fight for a dream...

Easy is to show victory.
Difficult is to assume defeat with dignity...

Easy is to admire a full moon.
Difficult to see the other side...

Easy is to stumble with a stone.
Difficult is to get up...

Easy is to enjoy life every day.
Difficult to give its real value...

Easy is to promise something to someone.
Difficult is to fulfill that promise...

Easy is to say we love.
Difficult is to show it every day...

Easy is to criticize others.
Difficult is to improve oneself...

Easy is to make mistakes.
Difficult is to learn from them...

Easy is to weep for a lost love.
Difficult is to take care of it so not to lose it.

Easy is to think about improving.
Difficult is to stop thinking it and put it into action...

Easy is to think bad of others.
Difficult is to give them the benefit of the doubt...

Easy is keep the friendship with words.
Difficult is to keep it with meanings.

Easy to read this.

Difficult to follow....

Things are usually not as difficult as they seem
the moment we start to take action and put in the efforts.

Life's Little Wisdom

It's a Wonderful Life
Face your past without regrets.
Handle your present with confidence.
Prepare for the future without fear.
Keep faith and drop the fear.
Don’t believe your doubts and never doubt your beliefs.
Life is wonderful if you know how to live it.
Have a great day!

Quotes on Confidence

Confidence

"If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground."
- Henrik Ibsen

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."
- Anonymous

"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level."
- Max L. Forman

"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."
- Anonymous

Cherish Happiness

Words to Live By, Begin Each Day

The angel asked, "You aren't happy. How can I help you?"

The poet replied, "I have everything. But I lack only one thing. Can you give it to me?"

To which the angel happily said, "Sure. I can give you anything you desired."

The poet stared right into the angel's eyes, "I want happiness."

"All right," the angel nodded. And the angel proceed to take away everything the poet possessed. The angel took away the poet's talent, destroyed his looks, robbed his riches and killed his wife. The angel then left.

A month later, the angel appeared in front of the poet. The poet was lying on the ground, half dead, hungry and struggling for survival. The angel then returned him everything he once
possessed and left again.

Two weeks later, the angel paid a visit to the poet. This time, the poet, together with his wife, thanked the angel profusely. He finally found happiness.

Often, a person need to lose everything before he/she learns how to cherish.

Actually, happiness is right in front of you. Just what is happiness?

When you are hungry, a bowl of hot noodle in front of you is happiness.
When you are tired, a soft bed is happiness.
When you are crying, a gentle tissue is happiness.

The Man By The Window

Step into a Dream

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had traveled to. And every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and colour of the world outside. The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.

Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color of the rainbow. Grand old trees graced the landscape, and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene. One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn't hear the band ­ he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days and weeks passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the world outside. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall.

The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window. The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. She said that perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.

There is tremendous happiness in encouraging others and giving them hopes despite our own situations. Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.

Quotes on Hope

Hope Soars

"There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly. "
- Windred Newman

"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. "
- Martin Luther King, Jr

”"Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes.... Keep hope alive. "
- Jesse Jackson

"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. "
- Dorothy Thompson

"He who has health has hope. And he who has hope has everything. "
- Arabian Porverb

"No matter how difficult life can be the most important thing is to live it with hope."
- Anonymous

生活中或许有［失望］
但一定不能［绝望］
总要满怀［期望］
永不放弃［希望］
－ 戴晨志《成功高手座右铭》

“只要还有呼吸，生命就有希望”
－ 何权峰《命运发牌 机会出牌》