September 16, 2009

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel

July 17, 2009

The fear that impermanence awakens in us, that nothing is real and nothing lasts, is, we come to discover, our greatest friend because it drives us to ask: If everything dies and changes, then what is really true?

Sogyal Rinpoche (Tibetan teacher)

May 14, 2009

Grandmother your life was full of loving deeds

Forever thoughtful of our special needs

Today and tomorrow, my whole life through

I will always love and cherish you

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God looked around his garden,

And He found an empty place.

And then He looked down upon the earth,

And saw your tired face.

He put His arms around you,

And lifted you to rest.

God's garden must be beautiful,

He always takes the best.

He knew that you were suffering,

He knew you were in pain,

He knew that you would never

Get well on earth again.

He saw the road was getting rough,

And the hills were hard to climb.

So He closed your weary eyelids,

And whispered "Peace be thine."

It broke our hearts to lose you,

But you didn't go alone.

For part of us went with you,

The day God called you home.

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In loving memory of Mdm Ong Eng Tin

(10 May 1925 - 14 May 2009)

March 18, 2009

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging. It is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Take time to choose and speak the right words. They will produce the right things in your life and the lives of others

~Extracted from "God's Hand On My Shoulder"

March 12, 2009

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

Ernest Hemingway

March 09, 2009

"Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Vaclav Havel

March 2, 2008

"Those who have not tasted the bitterest of life's bitters can never appreciate the sweetest of life's sweets."

Chinese Proverb