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

First Season McBealism

Wow.. it's been a while since my last quotable quotes. Well after a marathon of the Ally McBeal series, I manage to sort some Mcbealism, Fishism, and even Cageism from the first season. Some make sense, some just don't, and most of it just sounds hillarious.. haha.. Enjoy it though..

Because whoever said that "plenty of fish in the sea" thing, is lying. Sometimes there's only one fish. Trust me. ~Ally ep.2

I object to people who everytime they do something scummy blame it on the environment. ~Ally ep.3

Love. It's an equation, a "me", a "you", derives a "we". It's that simple. What I'm saying is, the foundation for any "we" is a "me", and if the "me" is a work in progress, for God's sake don't start constructing the "we". ~Richard ep. 3

The world is no longer a romantic place. Some of its people still are however. And there in lies the promise. ~John ep. 6

Life is just a stupid game. Doesn't matter what you do or what you have. If you're loved in the end then you wind. ~Richard ep. 10

But sometimes the thing that you regret the most are the things that you don't do. ~Ally ep. 19

The thing about hope, many people secretly wish that that moment never does presents itself. Because if it does the hope could be dashed. ~John ep. 22

Courage is when the time comes to jump and you jump. Courage is knowing you can't not jump. ~John ep. 22

A friendship isn't real unless both sides have the right and the power to tell the other to go to hell. ~Mr. Michaelson ep. 23

If you think back and replay your year and if it doesn't bring you tears either joy or sadness, consider the year wasted. ~John ep. 23

Taglines...it's fun pt.2

We are mysterious creatures aren't we? And in the end so much of it turns out not too matter.
~ Lila Ross [Evening]

How do we change the world? One act of random kindness at a time.
~ God [Evan Almighty]

Do you want to know how I do it? This is how I do it, I never saved anything for the swim back.
~ Vincent [Gattaca]

Have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling.
~ Clair [Elizabethtown]

The more you know, the less you don't know.
~ Father of the Sibling of the Sun [Monk]

I'm made of wax Larry. What are you made?
~ Teddy Roosevelt [A Night at the Museum]

Those who want to live, let them fight. And those who do not want to fight in this eternal world of struggle, do not deserve to live.
~ Grissom [CSI]