Saturday, March 14, 2009
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Some Quotes on Failure
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Failure is an event, never a person. ~William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!
Failure is an event, never a person. ~William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. ~Robert Schuller
One fails forward toward success. ~Charles F. Kettering
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton
No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ~William Feather
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. ~Kenneth Boudling
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Friday, July 13, 2007
Back to rumbling on scattered concepts
OK, here I am again, out of respect for my remaining two readers or so. :) I am actually going to force myself to write this time. Many things had been going on in my life and I realized that I was getting so disconnected from myself. Thus, the lack of my posts.
The aforementioned "things" include:
1. finding a job and then quitting it
2. the possibility of a new "love affair" and its consequent lack thereof
3. the stress of being "in between jobs"
Lately, I've been having those days when I don't want to face myself, get the hell out of my comfort zone and just try to figure out what kind of flawed thoughts that I have and then make an effort to correct them. With each passing day, my firm belief in how your thoughts shape your life become more and more deeply rooted. I once wrote it in my journal that my life - all of our lives in fact - was like a play-dough. I can shape it in any way that I want. And for me that is the intimidating part. Because I still don't know who I am, and what I want to do with my life.
On a slightly different note:
Over the past few months or so, I noticed how I base my feelings strictly on what's going on around me. How much I let others control how I feel. I would feel that I'm a beautiful person and a beautiful soul for one second, and then something would happen and all the intense effort that I put into building those beliefs would be shattered into pieces. Then I would say "maybe I'm just kidding myself, If I were really that ..... [beautiful / fun / interesting / whatever] ..... others would be able to see and appreciate it". Which implies that I am really kidding myself, not in the sense that I'm actually not a fun, smart, interesting person, but in the sense that I haven't really convinced myself about these qualities of mine. I used to think that I was finally over that; I used to think that being mistreated by others didn't mean that I had to mistreat myself but, as always, there are occasions in life that come to test the strength of these beliefs. And apparently I didn't pass the test this time. I'm still expecting everyone to find me interesting; I'm still expecting everyone to see that I'm intelligent. And I still depend on others to affirm my "worth".
I always used to think that if I happened to do "this and this and that", then I would love myself. But now I realize that unless I love myself, as I am now, with all the flaws, with all the good and the bad, with all my beauty and ugliness, accept myself with all my insecurities and learn to forgive myself for them, there is no way that I can accomplish "this and this and that". The change begins from within. Unfortunately, I think it's time for me to acknowledge that and let go of this intense effort to change how I act, how I look and what I accomplish and start to love and accept myself no matter what. It's definitely something that I and many other people, are not used to doing. We always try to change what's on the outside than what's in the inside. It might take a long time for me to get used to that but I think it's the best lifetime present that I can give to myself.
By the way, I want to learn how to forgive.
The aforementioned "things" include:
1. finding a job and then quitting it
2. the possibility of a new "love affair" and its consequent lack thereof
3. the stress of being "in between jobs"
Lately, I've been having those days when I don't want to face myself, get the hell out of my comfort zone and just try to figure out what kind of flawed thoughts that I have and then make an effort to correct them. With each passing day, my firm belief in how your thoughts shape your life become more and more deeply rooted. I once wrote it in my journal that my life - all of our lives in fact - was like a play-dough. I can shape it in any way that I want. And for me that is the intimidating part. Because I still don't know who I am, and what I want to do with my life.
On a slightly different note:
Over the past few months or so, I noticed how I base my feelings strictly on what's going on around me. How much I let others control how I feel. I would feel that I'm a beautiful person and a beautiful soul for one second, and then something would happen and all the intense effort that I put into building those beliefs would be shattered into pieces. Then I would say "maybe I'm just kidding myself, If I were really that ..... [beautiful / fun / interesting / whatever] ..... others would be able to see and appreciate it". Which implies that I am really kidding myself, not in the sense that I'm actually not a fun, smart, interesting person, but in the sense that I haven't really convinced myself about these qualities of mine. I used to think that I was finally over that; I used to think that being mistreated by others didn't mean that I had to mistreat myself but, as always, there are occasions in life that come to test the strength of these beliefs. And apparently I didn't pass the test this time. I'm still expecting everyone to find me interesting; I'm still expecting everyone to see that I'm intelligent. And I still depend on others to affirm my "worth".
I always used to think that if I happened to do "this and this and that", then I would love myself. But now I realize that unless I love myself, as I am now, with all the flaws, with all the good and the bad, with all my beauty and ugliness, accept myself with all my insecurities and learn to forgive myself for them, there is no way that I can accomplish "this and this and that". The change begins from within. Unfortunately, I think it's time for me to acknowledge that and let go of this intense effort to change how I act, how I look and what I accomplish and start to love and accept myself no matter what. It's definitely something that I and many other people, are not used to doing. We always try to change what's on the outside than what's in the inside. It might take a long time for me to get used to that but I think it's the best lifetime present that I can give to myself.
By the way, I want to learn how to forgive.
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Today's Headlines
Here are today's headlines from BBC:
Reid faces control order pressure
Israel detains 30 Hamas officials
Big Brother rapped over race row
Rubbish tax 'to boost recycling'
Crisis appeal for Darfur region
A-level students 'given answers'
Uefa blames Reds fans for chaos
Greenspan fears China market fall
Methane blast rocks Russian mine
US to push for new Iran sanctions
Tamil Tigers launch naval attack
Court upholds £48m divorce award
Man jailed for raping schoolgirl
Blame row erupts over power plant
Divided Lib Dems reject coalition
Shake-up in hunt for crooked cash
Study reveals prime nuclear sites
NHS doing 'too many' cataract ops
School place appeals up and down
If you take a close look at the kind of crap we read everyday, for the sake of "knowing what's going on in the world" or "being more informed or sophisticated", you will recognize the extent of negativity we are bombarded with from our environment. Imagine pepole reading these news day after another - for years! I'm not suggesting that we should turn a blind eye to what's going on in the world, but we should be removed from the things that we are reading, refuse to let them affect us in negative ways and keep in mind that there is no news source that is 100% reliable. Most messages we get from the media are distorted in some way to make them more appealing to our senses. I believe that the first step is just to realize how much negativity there is all around us and it has the potential to bring us down when we don't consciously recognize its existence and just take it as given.And now, here is some groundbreaking research for you as your bonus:
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Word of the Day
Cavort
brand new day at work,
her foolish mind cavorting
in vast dimensions
at least i tried.
Wanna write your own haiku?
1. To bound or prance about.
2. To have lively or boisterous fun; to behave in a high-spirited, festive manner.
brand new day at work,
her foolish mind cavorting
in vast dimensions
at least i tried.
Wanna write your own haiku?
Sunday, May 06, 2007
More Quotes
I have been feeling lazy to write something new so I'll try to get away with some quotes instead. They're from one of my heroes.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
She was an awfully smart woman.
As soon as I find a way to tackle the novelty issues in my life, I will be back with more ideas. Until then, content yourself with quotes from awesome people.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
She was an awfully smart woman.
As soon as I find a way to tackle the novelty issues in my life, I will be back with more ideas. Until then, content yourself with quotes from awesome people.
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