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Doctor Shigeaki Hinohara :
"Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot. "
"All people who live long regardless of nationality, race or gender share one thing in common:None are overweight... "
"It's wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one's family and to achieve one's goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. "
"Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot. "
"All people who live long regardless of nationality, race or gender share one thing in common:None are overweight... "
"It's wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one's family and to achieve one's goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. "
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Life is a serious thing, and only men with intelligence and courage live well. To live is to be among men and to be among men is to struggle. But it is not a struggle with brute force, or with men alone. It is a struggle with passion, with conventions, with worries and with errors. (Rizal)
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. Many a one believes himself the master of others, and yet he is a greater slave than they.
The strongest man is never strong enough to be always master, unless he transforms his power into right, and obedience into duty. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Inferiors revolt in order to be equal, equals, in order to be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolution. (Aristotle)
I would not live forever. I wouldn’t if I could. But I needn’t fret about it. I couldn’t if I would. (Cyrano de Bergerac)
The heart of a fool is in his mouth. The mouth of a wise man is in his heart. (Edison)
Life can only be understood backwards; But it must be lived forwards. (Soren Kierkegaard)
A Letter to a dear friend
I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got; but there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take.
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take Heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take Peace!
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see – and to see we have only to look. I beseech you to look.
Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendour, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.
Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the Angel’s hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me that Angel’s hand is there; the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing Presence. Our joys too: be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty – beneath its covering – that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.
Courage then to claim it: that is all! But courage you have; and the knowledge that we are pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.
And so, at this time, I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the Prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away. – Letter from Fra Giovanni ….. 1513 A.D.
A lot of the foolish things people do are done simply because they seem like “a good idea at the time.” The resulting scars are carried through life. A boy quits school… and, when he can’t get the kind of a job he would like to have, lives to regret it. A student experiments with drugs “just to see what it is like” and ends up in a mental hospital.
Older people plunge into ill-considered ventures, lose their painfully accumulated savings, and spends their remaining years in despair.
Most of us like to think we plan our lives; not many do. It is our acts – some of them pretty impulsive – that are the architects of our lives. “Our deeds” wrote George Eliot “ still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes what we are.” (Chaplains Corner)
My philosophy of life is work. All I ask of a man is that he have honest convictions and principles and live by them. (Thomas A. Edison) It was after 9,990 separate experiments that Edison successfully demonstrated the first electric light bulb …
Trees are living monuments. They grow and self- perpetuate themselves and shed yearly blessings on our race. The cultivation of trees and flowers is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the noble in man.
Take Time
Take time to think. It is the source of wisdom. Take time to play. It is the secret of perpetual youth. Take time to read. It is the fountain of wisdom. Take time to love and be loved. It is a God given privilege. Take time to be friendly. It is the road to happiness. Take time to give. It is too short a day to be selfish. Take time to work. It is the price of success. But time is precious, precious as a jewel.
Keep your heart from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply; expect little. Give much; sing often. Pray always; fill your life with love; scatter sunshine. Forget yourself. Think of others. Do as you would be done by. These are the tried links in contentment’s golden charm. (Mc Leod)
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. (Henry Becher)
Into my heart’s treasury, I slipped a coin that time cannot take nor thief purloin. Oh, better than the minting of a gold crown king is the safe kept memory of a lovely thing. (Sara Teasdale)
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee. (Shakespeare)
And I will make thee beds of roses and a thousand fragrant posies, a cap of flowers and a kirtle embroidered all with leaves of myrtle. (Christopher Marlowe)
Universal Prayer
If I am right, thy grace impart still in the right to stay. If I am wrong, O teach my heart to find that better way. (Alexander Pope)
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. (Christiana Roesetti)
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is it’s own excuse for being. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He drew a circle that shut me out, heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had wit to win. We drew a circle and took him in. (Edwin Markham)
Tip O’Neile’s values learned from his father (in the following order):
1. Loyalty
2. To live a clean and honest life
3. To be my brother’s keeper
4. To remember always from whence I come
5. Honesty and Integrity.
It is often difficult to live an honest and clean life with all the temptations in this world. Tip O ‘Neill catholic upbringing prepared him for this. I will try, strengthened by prayers, to withstand temptations. We are our brother’s keepers is what the Lord has commanded us – to take care of the poor and the widows and orphans, those who cannot take care of themselves. This is the same as what the Lord commanded us to do – “To love our neighbors as ourselves.”
Tip O’Neill says “people like to be asked”. If you want something from other people, do not assume they know about it. Ask for what you want because people appreciate being asked favors.
Movies Seen on Easter Sunday, 1971
“No blade of grass” and “Initiation”. The first was aimed against the present air and water pollution, how man would turn beast if he loses his blade of grass. The second had for its theme – love, sensuality, and sex, the initiation of a girl and a boy into the adult world.
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. (Ecclesiastes 1:11)”
“I am just a nowhere man living in these no-where land, letting in my no-where plans to nobody.” (Beetles Song)
“I don’t want diamonds and pearls because honestly, honey, they just cost money. Give me your hands to rely on, give me your shoulders to lie on … little things mean a lot.”
(From Song)
“Behind each great man is a woman.”
Just like your guava tree, life is a cycle of ups and downs. The guava tree looked miserable with all its leaves taken down. But look at it now! Isn’t it spring again!? Aren’t new twigs on it again!? Life is great!
Let us build anew. Let us reflect on our selves and build on our strengths. Forget our weaknesses! Remember “If you look for the bad in mankind, you surely will!” So, start looking for the good in mankind.
“Dynamic Conflict”. You purposely create a conflict between yourself and the person whose attitude you want to change.
Go ahead! Sell that car! Resist the tendency to keep old things. Often you can bring in the new only when the old is gone. It may be too late – no one wants to buy it.
“Celebrate your child’s successes.” Resist the tendency “to focus too much on academics”. “Help your child to experience some form of success that engenders confidence. “One thing I’m certain will improve school performance; do not allow a child to have TV in his room.”
Philosophy of life of a literary agent: “Each morning, I wake up and expect something wonderful to happen.” “If it hasn’t happened by lunch time, I make it happen.”
The first boy came to the priest, and confessed: “Father, I threw peanut into the river.”. “Oh, that’s very minor offense, just say one Hail Mary.” The next boy came over, and confessed: “Father, I too threw peanut into the river”. “Oh, that’s minor, say one Hail Mary.” The last boy, who almost looks tiny, came over, and the priest said: “I know, you threw peanut into the river. Right?” “No, Father, I am Peanut.”