Quotations from Mother Teresa

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred; forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, others may be jealous; be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them your strength lies."
"In this life we can not do great things. We can only do small things with great love."
"Abortion is murder in the womb. A child is a gift of God."
"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between"
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
"In the short term, there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread.But that never can nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapon will cause."
"When I see waste here, I feel angry on the inside."
"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted."

Positive Psychology

Each of us has an invisible bucket. It is constantly emptied or filled, depending on what others say or do to us. When our bucket is full, we feel great. When it's empty, we feel awful.
Each of us also has an invisible dipper. When we use that dipper to fill other people's bucket - by saying or doing things to increase their positive emotions - we also fill our own bucket. But when we use that dipper to dip from others' buckets - by saying or doing things that decrease their positive emotions - we diminish ourselves.
So we face a choice every moment of every day: We can fill one another's buckets, or we can dip from them. It's an important choice - one that profoundly influences our relationships, productivity, health, and happiness.

From How Full is Your Bucket?

Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Noah's Ark

Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Noah's Ark
One: Don't miss the boat. Two: Remember that we are all in the same boat. Three: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark. Four : Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big. Five : Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done. Six: Build your future on high ground. Seven : For safety's sake, travel in pairs. Eight : Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs. Nine : When you're stressed, float a while. Ten: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals. Eleven : No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting

幸福

所謂的幸福所謂的快樂，其實是一些非常簡單非常平凡的感覺，是一些普通人在普通的生活中一點一滴最真實的體驗。

世間最珍貴的不是‘得不到’和‘已失去’，而是現在能把握的幸福。

2006

爆竹聲中一歲除，春風送暖入屠蘇。千門萬戶曈曈日，總把新桃換舊符。
這是王安石的《元日》詩。它寫春風溫暖清新的氣息送入千家萬戶，宣告萬紫千紅的春天的到來，給人們帶來了新的希望，表達了喜悅祥和的感情，成為一首膾炙人口的詩篇。