Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Johann von Goethe

Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influance, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

Brian Tracy

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

Brian Tracy

Money is kind of base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

Robert Kiyosaki

Memilih untuk bahagia atau untuk sengsara.

Memilih untuk dipulihkan atau untuk menyimpan kepahitan.

Memilih untuk mengampuni atau untuk mendendam.

Hidup adalah masalah pilihan.

Kebahagian semu bisa dapatkan, yang sejati tak jauh dari jangkauan.

Cinta kasih juga bisa  miliki, namun dendam dan amarah juga bisa alami.

Persahabatan nan indah bukan impian, penghianatan dan kepahitan mungkin  dapati.

Hidup adalah masalah pilihan.

Mengenai bagaimana menjalani hidup.

Mengenai bagaimana menghabiskan seluruh waktu.

Mengenai bagaimana mencapai impian.

Dan mengenai bagaimana memandang kehidupan.

Ada orang yang menganggap kehidupan sebagai angin yang berhembus.

Banyak yang datang dan yang pergi.

Tak dapat ditebak, dan tak dapat diselami.

Ada pula yang menganggap kehidupan sebagai medan peperangan.

Dimana ia harus berjuang tanpa henti.

Tanpa kedamaian dalam hati.

Sementara yang lain menganggap kehidupan sebagai kutuk dari Yang Mahakuasa.

Hidup tak lagi berarti bagi dirinya.

Ratap tak pernah jauh dari mulutnya.

Air mata mengalir siang dan malam, sebab hanyalah duka nestapa yang ada.

Namun…

Orang yang berbahagia menganggap kehidupan sebagai suatu emas yang mulia.

Harta nan sangat berharga.

Anugrah Illahi yang tak tertandingi.

Dijalaninya hidup, dengan asa dan impian.

Berjalan dalam jalan Sang Pencipta.

Berserah sepenuhnya.

Melangkah setapak demi setapak.

Sampai didapatinya mahkota kemuliannya.

Hidup adalah masalah pilihan.

Yang manakah yang pilih?

Tanyalah pada diri sendiri.

Dan jalanilah hidup sesuai pilihan….

Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.

- 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) -

A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he’s clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.

Carlos Castaneda

One cannot enter don Juan’s world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan’s world, can anything be verified absolutely. The only thing we can do is arrive at a state of increased awareness that allows us to perceive the world around us in a more inclusive manner.

Carlos Castaneda

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda