Kerendahan Hati

Kalau engkau tak mampu menjadi beringin
Yang tegak di puncak bukit
Jadilah belukar, tetapi belukar yang baik,
Yang tumbuh di tepi danau

Kalau kamu tak sanggup menjadi belukar,
Jadilah saja rumput tetapi rumput yang
Memperkuat tanggul pinggir jalan

Kalau engkau tak mampu menjadi jalan raya
Jadilah saja jalan kecil
Tetapi jalan setapak yang
Membawa orang ke mata air

Tidaklah semua menjadi kapten
Tentu harus ada awak kapalnya
Bukan besar kecilnya tugas yang menjadikan tinggi
rendahnya nilai dirimu
Jadilah saja dirimu
Sebaik-baiknya dari dirimu sendiri
~Taufik Ismail

Real People Talk About Real World

Listening to your lecturers lessons, your parents wise words or even your yapping friends about his/her bad day, could be really boring sometimes. But once in awhile they said something that rings in your head. well, here are a few words from people around me whom i've met in flesh and blood. the ones that i just can't forget, and hard to miss in that strike of boredom.

Pada kenyataan hidup, Anda tidak dapat memilih segalanya. ~GPT

Persahabatan itu seperti pipis di celana, orang lain cuma bisa ngeliat, tapi cuma kita yang bisa ngrasain kehangatannya. ~ re-told by RA

In life, that's what we do, we keep trying to impress people. ~DSS

Hidup hanyalah pilihan dan kompromi. ~MD

Jangan khawatir, selalu ada celah!! ~IS E&Y Indo

Pemimpin itu seperti air, harus mengalir dan masuk ke mana aja. ~Sun Tzu as told by RKS

Rejeki itu kan sudah diatur sama Tuhan. Gak bakal ketuker atau salah. Kalo ketunda mungkin iya. Yang bikin ketunda siapa? Ya kita sendiri lah. ~DK

Afterall life is a product of mistake. ~DSS

The obvious is sometimes forgotten, and looking for the obvious is not easy. ~IGS

Setelah sekian lama mencari..
akhirnya aku menemukan..
tempat di mana aku bisa berkata,
"aku pulang.." ~RA

Being grateful

Bersyukurlah bahwa kamu belum siap memiliki segala sesuatu yang kamu inginkan. Seandainya sudah, apa lagi yang harus diinginkan?
Bersyukurlah apabila kamu tidak tahu sesuatu. Karena itu memberi kesempatan untuk belajar.
Bersyukurlah untuk masa-masa sulit. Di masa itulah kamu tumbuh.
Bersyukurlah untuk setiap tantangan baru. Karena itu akan membangun kekuatan dan karaktermu.
Bersyukurlah untuk kesalahan yang kamu buat. Itu akan mengajarkan pelajaran yang berharga.
Bersyukurlah bila kamu lelah dan letih. Karena itu kamu telah membuat suatu perbedaan.

~a text message from a friend

Quotable Quotes pt. 1

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately
to front only the essential facts of life
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach
and not, when I came to die
discover that I had not lived
~Tennyson, Walden

There is no news in fear
but in the end it's fear
that drowns you.
~Anne Sexton, Imitation of Drowning

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
~Paulo Coelho

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are we are, --
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
~Tennyson, Ulysses

We we dreamers, dreaming greatly, in the man-stifled town;
We yearned beyond the sky-line where the strange roads go down.
Came the Whisper, came the Vision, came the Power with the Need,
Till the Soul that is not man's soul was lent us to lead.
~R. Kipling, The Song Of The Dead

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair;
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, And I-
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

~Robert Frost

If

If you can keep you head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies
Or being hated don't give way to hating
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken
And stoop and build 'em with worn out tools

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold On!!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
Or walk with Kings--nor lose the common touch
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you
If all men count with you, but none too much
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run
Yours is the earth, and everything that's in it
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

~Rudyard Kipling

O Me! O Life!

O me! O Life!.. of the questions of these recurring
Of the endless trains of the faithless -- of cities fill's with the foolish
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light -- of the objects mean -- of the struggle renew'd
Of the poor results of all -- of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me
Of the empty and useless years of the rest -- with the rest me intertwined
The question, O me! so sad, recurring -- what good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer,
That you are here, that life exists and identity
That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse

~Walt Whitman