Happy Lunar New Year! - Wisdom For February
Everyday when you read the newspapers, there are nothing
but gloom from the first page screaming at you with headlines about
stock market crashing, economy slowing down, plane crashes and
terrorists. That is why I read the newspapers from the back page where
they are all about sports and before you come to the front, there will be occasions where you may not
have time to read it any more for what is new or what is news?
A New Year even more than a new day lies before us anew. It is like fresh snow that are spotless. Be careful how we tread on it because every mark you make will show.
The year is still ahead of us therefore, it is up to us to fill it up with joy and all things good and share the happiness with loved ones and friends.
Leaders everywhere of nations or organisations and families should lead us to peace not war, love not hate. Our hearts and minds must be filled with thoughts for others not self.
There will be times where we need courage and strength to shoulder on and be prepared to walk alone against a crowd that is going in the wrong direction.
I leave you some notes of wisdom for this special February month of the Lunar New Year. Do note that intelligence alone is not wisdom as you are merely intelligent. Adding a year to your age is not wisdom, you just got older. Find your wisdom.
Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, do not be frightened. - 1 Peter 3: 13-14
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self control. - 2 Timothy 1: 7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4: 6-7
Heaven, when it is about to place a great responsibility on a man, always first tests his resolution, wears out his sinews and bones with toil, exposes his body to starvation, subjects him to extreme poverty, frustrates his efforts so as to stimulate his mind, toughen his nature and make good deficiencies. Men for the most part can mend their ways only after they made mistakes. Only when they are frustrated in mind and in their deliberations can they stand up anew. Only when their intentions become visible on their countenances and audible in their voices can they be understood by others. As a rule, a state without law-abiding families and trustworthy Gentlemen on the one hand, and, on the other, without the threat of external aggression, will perish. Only then do we realise that anxiety and distress lead to life and that ease and comfort end in death. - Mencius, Book VI Kao-Tzu Part II, 15.
A New Year even more than a new day lies before us anew. It is like fresh snow that are spotless. Be careful how we tread on it because every mark you make will show.
The year is still ahead of us therefore, it is up to us to fill it up with joy and all things good and share the happiness with loved ones and friends.
Leaders everywhere of nations or organisations and families should lead us to peace not war, love not hate. Our hearts and minds must be filled with thoughts for others not self.
There will be times where we need courage and strength to shoulder on and be prepared to walk alone against a crowd that is going in the wrong direction.
I leave you some notes of wisdom for this special February month of the Lunar New Year. Do note that intelligence alone is not wisdom as you are merely intelligent. Adding a year to your age is not wisdom, you just got older. Find your wisdom.
Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, do not be frightened. - 1 Peter 3: 13-14
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self control. - 2 Timothy 1: 7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4: 6-7
Heaven, when it is about to place a great responsibility on a man, always first tests his resolution, wears out his sinews and bones with toil, exposes his body to starvation, subjects him to extreme poverty, frustrates his efforts so as to stimulate his mind, toughen his nature and make good deficiencies. Men for the most part can mend their ways only after they made mistakes. Only when they are frustrated in mind and in their deliberations can they stand up anew. Only when their intentions become visible on their countenances and audible in their voices can they be understood by others. As a rule, a state without law-abiding families and trustworthy Gentlemen on the one hand, and, on the other, without the threat of external aggression, will perish. Only then do we realise that anxiety and distress lead to life and that ease and comfort end in death. - Mencius, Book VI Kao-Tzu Part II, 15.
No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the minds and hearts of his men. - Anonymous.
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all questions. - Earl Gray Stevens
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Anonymous.
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. - Unknown.
The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching. - Anson Dorrance.
Cowards die many times before their death; The valiant never taste death but once. - William Shakespeare.
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave. - James A. LaFont-Lewis.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato.
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results
in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely
rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and
the downward spiral begins. - Charles Stanley.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. - H. P. Lovecraft.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. - Niccolo Machiavelli.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali.
The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. - Mark Twain.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The
fearful are caught as often as the bold. - Helen Keller.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from
distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to
shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct,
will pursue his principles unto death. - Thomas Paine.
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. - Emile M. Cioran.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is
freedom. - Marilyn Ferguson.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. - Buddha.
What is a fear of living? It's being pre-eminently afraid of dying. It is not
doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote
is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the
space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some
good. - Maya Angelou.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. - Cyril Connolly.
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want
to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't
get it back later. - Laura Schlessinger.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. - Christian Nestell Bovee.
Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda.
It takes only a minute to find extraordinary people, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a whole life to forget them - Unknown.
From time to time, I will ask people what they fear or what they wish for in life. Some have a fear of flying or going out to sea so they do not fly nor go out to sea but when they walk on the streets they got knocked down by a taxi.
Our fears or wishes in life is based on our own life experiences. What you went through, what you have seen and experienced and you formed that fear or yearning. Some wish for love, peace, joy, happiness, health and wealth.
Health is everything because if you don't have it you have nothing. A person who wish for wealth, happiness or love either have it aplenty and wish for it that they last or they do not have it at all and therefore, yearn for it. But wealth and happiness can be fleeting. While happiness is a state being happy, joy is a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.
What about peace. When you have no health do you have peace? I think it depends as some suggested to me. They said there are folks who are not in good health but they can be in good spirits because they have peace. They may not be wealthy but they have peace so they are happy at work, at home and sleep very well at night.
As for me, I wish you enough! Enough wealth - as too much can be a bad thing, enough health - that is all you need. Enough love, so that you could love and be loved and love of many things and not just money. Enough peace - for without it there will only be anxiety and strive in your life. Enough joy so that you will have your state of happiness. Enough - because when you have enough, you should feel contented.
It takes only a minute to find extraordinary people, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a whole life to forget them - Unknown.
Anyone who can go for a week without drinks are really camels. - Unknown and maybe drunk.
You can't drink all day if you do not start in the morning. - Unknown and probably intoxicated.
From time to time, I will ask people what they fear or what they wish for in life. Some have a fear of flying or going out to sea so they do not fly nor go out to sea but when they walk on the streets they got knocked down by a taxi.
Our fears or wishes in life is based on our own life experiences. What you went through, what you have seen and experienced and you formed that fear or yearning. Some wish for love, peace, joy, happiness, health and wealth.
Health is everything because if you don't have it you have nothing. A person who wish for wealth, happiness or love either have it aplenty and wish for it that they last or they do not have it at all and therefore, yearn for it. But wealth and happiness can be fleeting. While happiness is a state being happy, joy is a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.
What about peace. When you have no health do you have peace? I think it depends as some suggested to me. They said there are folks who are not in good health but they can be in good spirits because they have peace. They may not be wealthy but they have peace so they are happy at work, at home and sleep very well at night.
As for me, I wish you enough! Enough wealth - as too much can be a bad thing, enough health - that is all you need. Enough love, so that you could love and be loved and love of many things and not just money. Enough peace - for without it there will only be anxiety and strive in your life. Enough joy so that you will have your state of happiness. Enough - because when you have enough, you should feel contented.
I wish you enough!
Comments