“At this year’s FIFA World Cup in Russia, at score 6-1, England trounced Panama. Curiously, Panama’s not sad at all: “They rejoice their first-ever World Cup goal!” Relative are success and happiness: “One’s failure could be another’s success, one’s sadness could be another’s gladness.” To each his own success and happiness!”
“The best teacher in whole wide world is pain— so good, you’ll try not to have it again. It instructs not with words but by feeling— least felt, least learning; most felt, most learning.”
“I am John King and she is Mary Best. By the sound of our names, we’re the greatest!” Same narrow-mindedness with racism: “By the color of our skin, we are supreme!”
“No single race has superiority in all of the human activity, such as in sport, music, literature, math, beauty pageant, painting, and sculpture. Thus, where did racists get their god-like stand? The answer’s but just plain and simple: “None!” Or perhaps, God made some races so kind, prone to abuse by those with bully mind.”
“Don’t love so much like with all soul and heart, you might lose your wits when it falls apart. Neither love so less like scared of what not, you might win none, they just can’t feel your heart.”
“Is it really apt to say “Health is Wealth”— that when you lose your health, you’ve lost a wealth? Or, it is more apt to say “Health is Life”— that when you lose your health, you’ve lost your life! Lose your wealth and you’re still left with one—breath; through hard work, you may get the wealth back yet! Lose your health and you’re left with none but— death; don’t look back, you may only find regret!”
“Some people just work and work and succeed; ask them and they don’t know how it they did. Others plan and plan and do not succeed; ask and they wonder what else they still need.”
“Oh, you’re crying because of a problem, but who in the world has got no problems? Even God has plenty, stop them he can’t, like you now whom to be happy he meant. If one problem alone made you so glum, how about thousands other more to come? Let’s stay brave and calm before each problem, because from birth to death, we will have them!”
“We’re so good at solving others’ problems, but so bad at our very own problems. Reason: We viewed others’ from the outside, whereas we viewed our own from the inside.”
“They oft say “avoid negative people,” fearing you too may turn nega in soul. Well, if you are weak like Adam and Eve that’s truly what will happen, I believe. But if you are strong in your self-esteem, steeped in right values, and firm in your dreams, instead of you turning negative too, it’s they that become positive like you.”
“What’s that big regret one can have in life? —“Not pursuing what they’d wanted in life.” But what’s that bigger than lack of action? —“Missing the goal due to lack of passion.”
“When do ills of the world not concern us? The cries we heed not, shall one day kill us! Vile nations we brush off, shall spawn migrants, to the countries they flee, they’re irritants! Message is clear: “Care for one another, let all live as one brothers and sisters.” The troubles of others that we ignore shall one day knock at our very own door!”
“Attitude is the master of our mind: “It tells what to accept, what to decline; it tells what to see, and what not to see; it tells if life—be joy or misery.”
“You worry? The cure’s another worry. And the cure to this another worry? Well, wait for another newer worry. To this newer? A much newer worry. What has happened now to the first worry? Oh, like soap bubble it burst so quickly. All will burst for they are just that—worries: “All imageries with li’l realities!”
“If yours “love of self,” you live for yourself; in midst of ruin, you might kill yourself. If “love of others,” you live for others; in midst of ruin, you pressed on harder.”
“Seeking to please the world? A dream so tall! How friendly you may be, can’t please them all! Hardly had you stepped in than you’ve got foes: Could be your skin color, eyes, lips, or nose. Why yet seek to please the world, not yourself, when the world itself couldn’t please itself. If you care too much how the world sees you, you’d be living a life that is not you!”
“To your loved ones, just keep on being good; of peers and friends, just keep on saying good; at work, just keep on doing what is good. Truly, for your soul and fortune they’re food!”