I thank my dad for cultivating my love for reading. I recalled the times he took me to the "Book Rental" shop near our home and each time I will borrow at least 4 books. I will have my book with me while eating, walking to tuition, and sneaking every moments just to complete the book. I love my "Famous Five", " Nancy Drew"....
As I get older, I develop an interest in reading Motivational Books which has impacted me much in my university days and even through my life turning moments.
Some of the quotes that I like are:
Two things stand like stone, kindness in another’s troubles, and courage in one’s own.
--Adam Lindsay Gordon
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time you’ve got.
--Art Buchwald
Don’t ask for an easier life. Ask to be a stronger person.
Create your tomorrows with your thoughts and actions today.
--Catherine DeVrye
Find purpose- the means will follow.
We are disturbed not by the things that happen but by our opinion of the things that happen.
--Epictetus
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
--Aldous Huxley
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her. But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
--Voltaire
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
--Seneca
Don’t be afraid your life will end-be afraid it will never begin.
--Grace Hansen
Fear is the thief of dreams.
Life is not the way it’s supposed to be.It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
--Kahlil Gibran
Do not compare yourself with others. You may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself… Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass…
We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
--Gide
Life is what happens when we’re making other plans.
--John Lennon
The poor man is not he who is without a cent but he who is without a dream.
--Harry Kemp
Regret for things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
--Sydney
Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes , of which all men have some.
--Charles Dickens
Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
--James Baldwin
Tough times don’t last- tough people do.
