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I love the quote mentioned on this title, I love, I think about it and practiced it in life, hoho..

Read the article below, took it from somewhere,, anonymous person.

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they are meant to be there. They serve some sort of purpose like teaching you a lesson or helping you figure out what you want to become. These people can be your roommate, neighbor, professor, long lost friend, lover, or even a complete stranger who, when you lock your eyes with his, you know that he will affect your life in some profound way. Sometimes things happen to you and they may seem horrible, painful, and unfair. But in reflection, you realize that without overcoming those ob­stacles you will never have realized your potential, strength, will power or heart.

Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, great loss and sheer stupidity, occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests-events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. A safe and comfort­able but dull life does not give you anything. Your experiences create who you are. You can learn a lot from them.

If someone hurts, betrays or breaks your heart, forgive them, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart. If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not because they love you, but because they teach you to love and open your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt before. Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to’ experience it again. Talk to people you have never talked to before, and listen to them. Let yourself fall in love. Break free and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to do so. Tell yourself that you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don’t, no one else will believe in you. You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it.

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This morning I watched Oprah, and today Suze Orman was giving her financial tips as usual. But today show was touching more on general issue that I found really great & some of us could really use (the points she gave might not applicable to non US country). Here they are:

1.    Try to live by half:

Whatever you’re earning now, try to use half of your earning and keep the half in save. Try to practice this in 6 months. This is to give a feel on how will it be if you or your wife / husband is being laid off.

2.       Stash your cash:

Keep some in saving so that you can still have money in your hard time

3.       Avoid tax:

Find out what is government plans to avoid tax for jobless situation

4.       –>Make your home affordable

5.       Look at what you HAVE and not what you HAD

Count and use wisely what you have, stop looking at what you used to have and bla, bla. Concentrate on you can survive for today.

And one thing very important for you to remember: Everything happens for the BEST!

A word from me : Keep working & trying hard, and leave the rest to God.

Ketika kita bertemu orang yang tepat untuk dicintai,

ketika kita berada di tempat pada saat yang tepat, itulah kesempatan.

Ketika kita bertemu dengan seseorang yang membuatmu tertarik, itu bukan pilihan, itu kesempatan.

Bertemu dalam suatu peristiwa bukanlah pilihan, itupun adalah kesempatan.
Bila kita memutuskan untuk mencintai orang tersebut,
bahkan dengan segala kekurangannya, itu bukan kesempatan, itu adalah pilihan.

Ketika kita memilih bersama dengan seseorang walaupun apapun yang terjadi, itu adalah pilihan.
Bahkan ketika kita menyadari bahwa masih banyak orang lain yang lebih menarik, lebih pandai, lebih kaya daripada pasanganmu dan tetap memilih untuk mencintainya, itulah pilihan.

Perasaan cinta, simpatik, tertarik, Datang bagai kesempatan pada kita.
Tetapi cinta sejati yang abadi adalah pilihan. Pilihan yang kita lakukan.

Berbicara tentang pasangan jiwa,

suatu kutipan dari film yang mungkin sangat tepat : “Nasib membawa
kita bersama, tetapi tetap bergantung pada kita bagaimana membuat semuanya berhasil”

Pasangan jiwa bisa benar-benar ada.
Dan bahkan sangat mungkin ada seseorang Yang diciptakan hanya untukmu.
Tetapi tetap berpulang padamu untuk melakukan pilihan apakah engkau ingin melakukan sesuatu untuk mendapatkannya, atau tidak…
Kita mungkin kebetulan bertemu pasangan jiwa kita,
Tetapi mencintai dan tetap bersama pasangan jiwa kita,
Adalah pilihan yang harus kita lakukan.

Kita ada di dunia bukan untuk mencari seseorang yang sempurna untuk dicintai TETAPI untuk belajar mencintai orang yang tidak sempurna dengan cara yang sempurna.

Love is not candlelit dinner, dancing or singing.
Love is not flower or romance.
Love last beyond that stages.
Love is patient, passion and compassion.
Love is compromise and healing.
Love is laughing together when things are good or
smiling together to keep from crying.
When things go wrong, love is forgiving, forgiving and forgiving.
Love is everything we share together, because to me
love will always be you.

Pada suatu hari, seorang wanita muda yang baru
saja menikah mengunjungi ibunya, Mereka duduk
di sebuah sofa dan menikmati segelas air teh
dingin.Ketika mereka sedang berbincang-bincang
mengenai kehidupan,pernikaha n,tanggung jawab
dalam hidup serta kewajiban, sang ibu dengan
perlahan menaruh sebongkah es batu ke dalam
gelasnya dan menatap wajah anak perempuannya.

“Jangan lupakan sahabat-sahabat wanitamu.”
nasihatnya, sambil mengaduk-ngaduk daun teh di
bawah gelasnya.

“Mereka akan menjadi orang yang penting bagimu
ketika usiamu makin tua.Tidak peduli seberapa
dalam kau mencintai suamimu, seberapa
banyak anak-anak yang kau miliki, kau masih
tetap harus memiliki sahabat wanita.
Ingatlah untuk berjalan-jalan bersama mereka,
melakukan hal bersama- sama dengan mereka.
Dan ingat bahwa mereka bukan hanya sekedar
sahabat wanitamu, tetapi mereka akan menjadi
saudara, anak dan yang lainnya. Kau akan
membutuhkan sosok wanita yang lain. Wanita
selalu begitu.”

“Sungguh nasihat yang aneh,” pikir si wanita
muda. “Bukankah aku baru saja menikah?
Bukankah aku baru saja bergabung dalam dunia
pasangan-pasangan muda? Sekarang saya adalah
seorang istri, orang dewasa,bukan anak
perempuan kecil yang memerlukan teman main
perempuan lainnya!
Tentu saja keluarga yang akan kami bina dapat
membuat hidup saya lebih berarti.”

Tetapi, ia mendengarkan nasihat ibunya; ia terus
berhubungan dengan sahabat-sahabat wanitanya
dan bertemu dengan semakin banyak sahabat
setiap tahun. Ketika tahun demi tahun berlalu, ia
mulai merasakan betapa benar nasihat yang
diberikan ibunya. Ketika waktu dan keadaan
mengubah keberadaan mereka sebagai wanita
dengan segala misterinya, sahabat-sahabat
wanitanya tetap berada dalam kehidupannya.
Setelah hidup selama 50 tahun dalam dunia ini,
inilah fakta-fakta yang saya dapatkan dari
memiliki sahabat wanita:

Sahabat wanita akan menjaga rahasiamu.

Sahabat wanita akan memberikan nasihat ketika
kau membutuhkannya.

Sahabat wanita tidak selalu mengatakan apa yang
kau lakukan benar, tetapi mereka bersikap jujur.

Sahabat wanita akan terus mengasihimu,
meskipun ada perbedaan pendapat.

Sahabat wanita akan tertawa bersama-sama
denganmu, dan lelucon kosong sama
sekali tidak diperlukan hanya untuk sebuah tawa.

Sahabat wanita akan menolongmu keluar dari
hubungan-hubungan yang buruk.

Sahabat wanita menolongmu mencarikan rumah
tinggal yang baru, membantu mengepak barang
dan pindah.

Sahabat wanita akan membantu membuat sebuah
pesta untuk anak-anakmu ketika mereka menikah
atau memiliki anak, manapun yang lebih dulu
terjadi.

Sahabat wanita akan selalu berada di sampingmu,
dalam suka maupun duka.

Sahabat wanita akan menempuh badai, topan,
panas, dan kegelapan untuk mengeluarkan kau
dari keputusasaan.

Sahabat wanita akan mendengarkan ketika kau
kehilangan pekerjaan atau seorang kawan.

Sahabat wanita akan mendengarkan ketika anak-
anakmu mengecewekanmu.

Sahabat wanita akan menangis bersamamu ketika
orang yang dikasihimu meninggal.

Sahabat wanita menghiburmu ketika kau
dikecewakan oleh banyak pria di dalam
kehidupanmu.

Sahabat wanita membantumu untuk bangkit
kembali ketika pria kau cintai pergi
meninggalkanmu.

Sahabat wanita senang ketika mereka melihatmu
bahagia, dan bersedia mencari dan melemparkan
apa yang tidak membuatmu bahagia.

Waktu berlalu…Kehidupan berjalan..
Jarak memisahkan.. .Anak-anak beranjak dewasa..
Cinta hilang dan pergi..Hati yang hancur..
Karir berakhir..Pekerjaan berganti..
Orang tua meninggal..Rekan- rekan melupakan
kebaikan..

TETAPI, sahabat-sahabat wanita akan terus
mendampinginmu, meskipun waktu dan jarak
yang terpaut sangat jauh. sahabat wanita tidak
akan lebih jauh dari orang-orang yang
membutuhkan.

Thanks to all my friends - Mon-

Although I don’t really understand the meaning behind these sonnets.. I feel it has deep meaning and nice for thoughts.. try to read slowly and repeatedly .. might find some inspirations maybe ,, ekkeke :p

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

If the dull substance of my flesh were thought

If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth removed from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought
I must attend time’s leisure with my moan,
Receiving nought by elements so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either’s woe.

Chocolate is a mixture of cocoa paste, cocoa butter, and sugar. Nowadays, we know its precise chemical composition. It is considered as a complimentary food, since all three organic substances exist (although not well balanced): carbohydrates (starch, diverse sugars), fats (cocoa butter), and vegetable proteins.

Minerals can also be found in chocolate: potassium and magnesium in large amounts, calcium and sodium in small amounts, and iron in trace amounts. Chocolate also contains vitamins A1, B1, B2, D, and E.

HIGH-ENERGY IN TINY SQUARES
Considering its ingredients, chocolate has exceptional nutritional qualities. It is, therefore, a high-energy food in relatively small volume; athletic people are among those who eat chocolate regularly , since it offers rapidly available energy. It is considered a food for effort whether intellectual or physical. What, however, is accurate concerning its other attributed
properties mentioned above?

THE BENEFITS OF CHOCOLATE
The pharmaco-dynamic substances (those whose action is similar to medications) found in chocolate are responsible for its reputation concerning its abilities. Four of these such substances can be found in chocolate: theobromine, caffeine, phenylethylamine, and serotonin. They appear in a negligible quantity, but each in infinitely small quantities plays an important role. Theobromine stimulates the central nervous system, facilitates muscular efforts, as well as having diuretic and cardiotonic action. It is an orexigan (appetite stimulator). Caffeine increases resistance towards fatigue, favorises intellectual activity, and increases watchfulness. Concerning phenylethylamine, it has a chemical structure similar to
amphetamines and therefore contains psycho-stimulating properties. Serotonin, on the other hand, is a neurotransmitter (substance freed by the nerve endings) in the cerebral cortex–its quantity is often found to be lower during certain nervous depression states. The serotonin found in chocolate helps correct its initial loss. Likewise, the caffeine and saccharose stimulate the body’s stimulation of serotonin. Finally, due to the pleasure it offers, chocolate stimulates endorphin secretion thus procuring naturally the same effects as opium. With this description of chocolate’s chemical composition, it’s never-ending list of vertues are easily explained.

SWEET OR APHRODISIAC?
Yes, chocolate can be a stimulant, euphorisant, and anti-depressor. Is it an aphrodisiac as well? No scientific response has been offered to date. Nevertheless, this idea goes back to the beginnings of civilization, even before its arrival in Europe: it was the 16th century, while the Aztecs prepared a drink called tchocoatl (made of cocoa nibs) known for its
nourishing, fortifying, and even aphrodisiac qualities…