Much has been said and written about the Law of Attraction (LAT). The basic premise of this Law is that if you want something badly enough and send out the right signals, the universe delivers. What you wish for, you get!
How does this belief stack up against Christian beliefs? Mainstream Christians believe that God provides and is in control of what happens in the world and in the larger universe. (more…)
It has been said: Our Thoughts become our Words, our Words become our Actions, our Actions become our Habits and our Habits become our Character.
A word written in a page is just an inanimate object – let’s take, for example, the word “pizza”. But when we think about it OFTEN ENOUGH, we find it creeping into our conversation with our friends. Where to get the best pizza? (more…)
Recently I started reading articles on the Law of Attraction (LAT) – and was I hooked! Yes, there are some new agey undertones, which some people look upon with suspicion. But we shouldn’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
A lot of the things mentioned by proponents of LAT like Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor, Anthony Robbins and Michael J. Losier have their basis in science. (more…)
For the longest time I’ve been meaning to visit Ho Chi Minh City. When finally the planets were in alignment, all it took was a gentle push from my friends Hazel and Blue – and I found myself on a plane heading north! Now I’ve got my footprints all over Ho Chi Minh City now, and I’m glad for it. For three days we stayed with Blue’s kabayan and ex-colleague Iggy. On the last night, I stayed with my brother Jeff and his wife Syl who are presently based there. (more…)
It’s been months since I last had a meal at Ocean located in Toa Payoh, Lorong 7. Just a few days ago I decided to have a meal there with a friend, and I must say if any restaurant can claim consistency in their service delivery, it has to be Ocean.
I give it top marks for the wide variety of food. They were as delicious as I could recall the last time I dined there almost a year ago. But inasmuch as the food was good, the service was bad!
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Some are humorous, other philosophical or cryptic, but all roiled me in some way. My crown jewels are highlighted in red
“I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.” – Jack Benny, US Comedian
“If you aren’t going to say something directly to someone’s face, then don’t use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogsphere a bad reputation” – Mena Trott
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” – Abraham Lincoln
“That woman speaks eighteen languages and can’t say “No” in any of them.” – Dorothy Parker
“The greatest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” – John Ruskin
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. – Alvin Toffler
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.” – Khalil Gibran
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.” – Oscar Wilde
“Never explain yourself to anyone. Because the person who likes you doesn’t need it, and the person who dislikes you won’t believe it.” – Author Unknown
“Forget health food. Most of us need all the preservatives we can get.” – John H. Hampsch
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” – Edmund Burke
“Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.” – George Bernard Shaw
“We must hang together, or surely we shall hang separately.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” – French Proverb
“When you face the sun, the shadows always fall behind you.” – Helen Keller
“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle” – Erin Majors
“God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.” – Khalil Gibran
“Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
“Friends are God’s ways of apologizing for our families.” – Anonymous
I have failed many times, and that’s why I am a success. – Michael Jordan
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. – Abraham Lincoln
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde
“Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.” – Agesilaus II
“Don’t let someone become a priority in your life when you are just an option in their life. Relationships work best when they are balanced.” – Anon
“Don’t make promise when you are in joy. Don’t reply when you are sad. Don’t take decision when you are angry.” – Anon
“The only thing worse than being talked about is NOT being talked about.” – Oscar Wilde
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.” – Mark Twain
“Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.” – Elsa Maxwell
“I can accept failure, but I cannot accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan
“You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.” – Charles C. Noble
“It’s true some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.” – Abigail Van Buren
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.” – David Coblitz
“True interactivity is not about clicking icons or downloading files; it is about encouraging communication” – Edwin Schlossberg
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” – Bertrand Russell
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Sir Winston Churchill
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up” – G.K. Chesterton
“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength; one by pushing down, the other by pulling up.” – Booker T. Washington
“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read, ‘President Can’t Swim’.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” – Eric Hoffer
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wise people so full of doubts” – Bertrand Russell
“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” – Khalil Gibran
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’ – Khalil Gibran
“Fear lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself … to be human can … make you a far happier and more productive person.” – Dr David M. Burns
“When a sieve is shaken, the dirt falls through; so, too, the defects of a man are seen when he begins to speak.” – Bible, Book of Sirach
“Words are a heavy thing, they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn’t fly.” – Sy Rosen & Chriatian Williams
“The road up and the road down is one and the same” – Heraclitus
“If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.” – Will Durant
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a candle” – St. Francis of Assisi
“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.” – Will Durant
“Tis the privilege of friendship – to talk nonsense, and have the nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb
“How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.” – Plutarch (46AD – 120AD)
“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.” – Erica Jong
“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” – Clarence Thomas
“Always be nice to people on the way up; because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.” – Wilson Mizner
“That’s the secret to entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself.” – Barbara Hall
“To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.” – Lawrence Sterne
“Associate with well-mannered people and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.” – Stanley Walker
“You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.” – Charles C. Noble
“Never, ever, threaten unless you’re going to follow through, because if you don’t, the next time you won’t be taken seriously.” – Roy M. Cohen
“Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. – E. B. White
“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
– Will Rogers
“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.” – Will Rogers
“Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. – Henri Poincare
“There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.” – Will Rogers
“One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.” – Georg Christophe Lichtenberg
“A liberal is a person whose interests aren’t at stake at the moment.” – Willis Player
“A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.” – Unknown
“Fish and visitors smell in three days.” – Benjamin Franklin
Dangerous is the type of ignorance where a person does not know that he does not know” – Vincent Especkerman
Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.
You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future.
The darkest moment of the night is just before dawn.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
All people smile in the same language.
A hug is a great gift… one size fits all. It can be given for any occasion and it’s easy to exchange.
Everyone needs to be loved…especially when they do not deserve it.
The real measure of a man’s wealth is what he has invested in eternity.
Love…and you shall be loved.
Everyone has beauty but not everyone sees it.
It’s important for parents to live the same things they teach.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
Marriage is like a game of compromise. When either one of the players stops compromising, the game is about to end.
The choice you make today will usually affect tomorrow.
Take time to laugh, for it is the music of the soul.
If anyone speaks badly of you, live so none will believe it.
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.
The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other.
Harsh words break no bones but they do break hearts.
To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it.
We take for granted the things that we should be giving thanks for.
Love is the only thing that can be divided without being diminished.
Happiness is enhanced by others but does not depend upon others.
For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.
“The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.”
“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.”
”I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”
“The future will be better tomorrow.”
“We’re going to have the best educated American people in the world.”
“I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.”
“We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO.
We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.”
“Public speaking is very easy.”
“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.”
“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”
”Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.”
”It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment..
It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
“It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.”
