randomize me. and get this.

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell


We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. ~Art Buchwald


The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. ~Herman Melville, White Jacket


Forever is composed of nows. ~Emily Dickinson

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. ~Henry Ward Beecher

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother started walking 5 miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today, and we don't know where the hell she is. Ellen DeGeneres

"When you lose, don't lose the lesson." - Dalai Lama
"The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince." Vince Lombardi

To do is to be - Lennin

To be is to do - Marx

Do be do be do - Sinatra

"Cycling is a risky activity. It's just not as risky as sitting on the couch eating chips and drinking beer."

If you rearrange the letters in SLAM, get rid of the A and substitute an I, add a few other letters and drop a few more, it spells BURRITO. amazing!

When I'm up with the sunshine, I want more than just a good time. I want more than just okay, more than just okay. -- Switchfoot "More Than Fine"

"Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos." - Don Kardong, 1976 US Olympic Marathoner

"...if it was easy everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great." Tom Hanks, "League of their Own"

making the most of the now.

`Make the most of now. It's the most precious thing in the world. It only exists for an instant. It's here. Then it's gone. So cherish it. Love it. Use it to make someone smile. Use it to tell someone you love them. Discover great things. Laugh at daft things. Take it in your hands and stretch it. Elooooongate it. Put it through its paces. Make it earn its keep. Fill it to the brim with your favorite things. Squeeze every drop of enjoyment out of it. Whatever you do make the most of it.'

and this is the more lawak version :

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.

Life is the only thing you can't get out of alive.

May your life be like toilet paper... Long and useful.

Someone said to Voltaire, "Life is hard." Voltaire replied, "Compared to what?"

We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.

Life is full of disappointments, and I'm full of life!

Eat right, exercise daily, live clean, die anyway.

Today is the last day of some of your life.

Death is a once in a lifetime experience.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone.'

more on life.

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~Elwyn Brooks White.

Jack Palance: "Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean shit."Billy Crystal: "Yeah, but what's that one thing?"Jack Palance: "That's what you've got to figure out."~From the movie City Slickers

Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Teilhard de Chardin: We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

why i'm still one.

it takes two to tango, but right now i don't even have my dancing shoes.

online CG conference | prayer

sim_yihtsern: I thank You God for enabling this ONLINECG and whatever we're gonna do later. please provide grace to those who need them, because at times, we forget that we're still christians. God bless the people, protect them wherever they go. Amen

so it fits. ;)

“Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was given to us to console us for what we are.”
— Mack McGinnis

of dancing on drums.

joshchiam: yupz..i always feel...drums..it's for u to 'dance' on it..
joshchiam: dont u feel like when drummers play..it's like some sort of dance?

'Maybe one day my drums will dance for you, and only You" -joshchiam-

hmm-ing me.

“2nd Agreement: Don’t Take Anything Personally.
Nothings others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”
~ Don Miguel Ruiz

for you | it only means you're one step closer.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting- Christopher Morley

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown

I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author Unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb

“How long should you try? Until.” - jim rohn-

“Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.” - napolean hill-

“I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.” - tom hoplins

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” - julie andrews-

On spitting properly.

"People should spit into a tissue or a bag, then place it in a dustbin to complete the civilized process of spitting" Zhang Huigang on cleaning up Beijing for the 2008 Olympics

nice.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection - Anais Nin

aye.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand: but do not try building a house on it. -CS Lewis-