OPTIMIST CREED

OPTIMIST CREED 

by CHRISTIAN D. LARSON

Promise Yourself -

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. (MY FAVORITE)

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

Something To Inspire Me

• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. - H. Jackson Brown

•  I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.-Thomas Edison

• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
  - Aristotle

•  Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.- Mark Twain

• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.- Samuel Johnson

• The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

• All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. - Sir Winston Churchil

• I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. - Mother Teresa

• If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse.
  

• Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.

Never Forget 11-23-09

Let us NOT forget. Let us pray for JUSTICE

It has been a year since the hideous, inhuman and by far the worst election-related crime in the Philippines happened. And... the families of the victims still cry for JUSTICE.


Here are two links that I want to share with you all.

Why Andal Ampatuan Jr., Thought He Could Get Away With It - An article dated November 29, 2009. Five days after the massacre.

Maguindanao: Isang Taon - A documentary series prepared my the PCIJ (Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism). This is a one segment of a five part documentary series on the extrajudicial killing of mediamen in the Philippines.


JUSTICE.

The Story of Betrayal

The word betrayal is just so difficult to define as much as it is so difficult to deal with. But allow me to give you something about betrayal.

Part of the fantasy of every betrayed person is that one day, the person who hurt you will come back and answer all your questions and will apologize for hurting you.

But the thing is... they won't!

They'll die a liar & will feel good about themselves.
That's how selfish they are.
They can't give you closure, you have to find it yourself.
You get angry with them.
Then you get over them.
Bless them in your mind & have peace with yourse.
When or if that person comes back,
you can say; HI & GOODBYE in the same sentence.

-Oprah Winfrey

I love you, Oprah! You made this so easy for me.

xx,

The Seven Cardinals of Life

1. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present

2. What other people think of you is none of your business

3. Time heals almost everything. Give it time

4. Noone is in-charge of your happiness except you

5. Do not compare your life to others & do not judge them. You have no idea what their journey is all about

6. Stop thinking too much, it's alright not to know the answers. They will come to you when you least
expect it.

7. SMILE. You do not own all the problems in the world.

Our Words Can Kill

Everything seems to be such a surprise to me. I always end up pondering about things that happen in a day -- everyday. Like... how words can result to tremendous injury to relationships and yet people won't give it up. Rumors do break up friendships. Haven't we realized this yet?

Words can kill trust and faith. We injure our own souls by it. The yentas just don't realize how much trouble they are causing their own reputes more than the inconvenience they're causing the persons they're tattling about. Can't help but to tut-tut about it. *glaring eyes*

Don't we have anything more sensible to talk about? Like how to be a responsible citizen or if we don't have anything good to say, it's best to keep the silence rather than regret everything in the end.

*sigh* Well, enough of my babbling... better if I just share this with you. Makes better sense.

A Greek philosopher asked his servant to cook the best dish possible. The servant, who was very wise, prepared a dish of tongue, saying, “It’s the best of all dishes, for it reminds us that we may use our tongue to bless and express happiness, dispel sorrow, remove despair, and spread cheer.”

Later the servant was asked to cook the worst dish possible. Again, he prepared a dish of tongue, saying, “It’s the worst dish, for it reminds us that we may use our tongue to curse and break hearts, destroy reputations, create strife, and set families and nations at war.”

It’s been estimated that a talkative person may speak 30,000 words a day! But the important question is, how do our words, whether many or few, affect others?

We don’t have to eat tongue to grasp that servant’s point. But we may have to “eat our own words” quite often before we learn to avoid saying things we’d like to retract.

The word SORRY itself is quite common these days. More often, it's not being used for apologizing, it's becoming more of a habit. Also, saying sorry has become an easy way out to run from the troubles caused by our mistakes. Tsk tsk.

I guess life has become too mechanical. We don't realize how many people we've hurt in a day. But if we say it sincerely, it can take away the pain.

Publish Post

'till here!

SAYONARA! :)

xx

Unusual Words.

Out of sheer boredom, I came up searching for strange words. You will definitely learn from this as much as I did! :)

(in alphabetical order)

+ Agelast

Meaning: a person who never laughs

+ Agonous

Meaning: Struggling

+ Antapology

Meaning: a reply to an apology

+ Autophoby

Meaning: The fear of referring to yourself. The fear of using the pronouns "I" and "me".

+ Bablatrice

Meaning: a female babbler.

Writer's Comment: Imagine?! Even words can be sexist.

+ Bever

Meaning: a snack between meals

+ Calamistrate

Meaning: to curl the hair

+ Chaston

Meaning: the part of the ring that holds the stone

+ Diazingiber

Meaning: a kind of ginger candy

+ Dignotion

Meaning: a birthmark, tattoo, mole, just any sort of distinguishing mark or sign.

+ Drawcansir

Meaning: a person who kills both friends and foes

+ Echopraxia

Meaning: mimicing the moves of others whether conscious or unconsciously

+ Emacity

Meaning: a fondness for buying things

Writer's Comment: Shopaholic much!

+ Emunctory

Meaning: relates to the blowing of the nose

+ Expergefactor

Meaning: alarm clock or anything that wakes you up

+ Gaberlunzie

Meaning: a beggar

+ Gallinipper

Meaning: a large mosquito

+ Heterography

Meaning: incorrect spelling

+ Hodmandod

Meaning: a strange person

+ Hoghenhine

Meaning: a member of one's family

+ Hookum-snivey

Meaning: a con, deceit or fakery

+ Huderon

Meaning: a lazy person

+ Indagatrix

Meaning: female searcher or investigator

+ Infucate

Meaning: to put on make-up

+ Jentation

Meaning: breakfast

+ Jettatura

Meaning: bad luck

+ Jollux

Meaning: a fat person

+ Knackatory

Meaning: a collectibles store

+ Mammothrept

Meaning: a spoiled child

+ Mesonoxian

Meaning: pertains to midnight

+ Moirologist

Meaning: someone who has been hired to mourn at a funeral

Writer's Comment: Whatta job!

+ Mungo

Meaning: a person who retrieves valuables from the garbage

+ Mututatial

Meaning: something that is borrowed

+ Nabocklish!

Meaning: similar to "leave it alone!"

+ Nightwhat

Meaning: nearly or almost

+ Noceur

Meaning: a person who stays up late

Writer's Comment: Okay so I'm a noceur!

+ Nudiustertian

Meaning: the day before yesterday

+ Otacust

Meaning: an eavesdropper; spy

+ Oxter

Meaning: armpit

+ Pelmatogram

Meaning: footprint

+ Pregustator

Meaning: a person whose job is to taste meals and drinks before serving them

Writer's Comment: Masayang trabaho ito! :p

+ Quadragenarian

Meaning: a person who is 40 years old

+ Qualtagh

Meaning: the first person you meet after leaving your house.

+ Rastaquouere

Meaning: a social climber who tries hard to be in fashion

+ Retroition

Meaning: the act of returning; reentrance

+ Savernapron

Meaning: a table napkin

+ Scevity

Meaning: bad luck

+ Semiopathy

Meaning: the tendency to read humoruosly inappropriate meanings into signs

+ Sitooterie

Meaning: a summerhouse or gazebo; or an out-of-the-way corner to sit with your partner during a dance

+ Torschlusspanik

Meaning: mid life crisis

+ Tractatrix

Meaning: a female shampooer

+ Tragematopolist

Meaning: a seller of candy

+ Winebibber

Meaning: a person who drinks a lot of alcohol.

+ Yestreen

Meaning: yesterday evening

Writer's Comment: Urgh! So please stop the "yesternight" thing! Ugh!

+ Yisel

Meaning: a hostage

Some words in the list, are good for code names, you know what I mean? Cute and interesting. Teehee!!

I think, I sounded like a novelist or something. Bookworm maybe. Only not even novelists use these words anymore.

PS: Something about this entry makes me LAUGH! Bwahaha! Take a guess, anyone? Hehe!! :)