如果我想利用意志力，让自己起床起早点、
吃饭吃少点、读书读多点、忧心忧少点、耐性多一点、
或爱心多一点，我只需要洁净我的思想。
So, if I want to have the inner strength to get up earlier,
eat less, read more, worry less, be more patient or be more loving,
all I have to do is exert my will to cleanse my thoughts.
当你能控制你的思绪，你便能控制你的头脑；
当你能控制你的头脑，你便能控制你的生活。
当你能控制你的生活，你便能控制你的命运。
When you control your thoughts, you control your mind.
When you control your mind, you control your life.
And once you reach the stage of being in total control of your life,
you become the master of your destiny.
你的力量比你身处的环境大，亦比困着你的过去大。
要突破这囚牢，你先要成为你意志力的主人。
You have the power to be more than your environment.
Similarly, you have the capacity to be more than a prisoner of your past.
To do this, you must become the master of your will.
记着，文字是极有影响力的，它们内有能量。
如果你满脑子仁慈的句子，你都会变仁慈；
如果你满脑子勇气的句子，你都会变勇敢。
文字是有力量的。
Remember, words are great influences.
Words are the verbal embodiment of power.
By filling your mind with words of kindness, you become kind.
By filling your mind with words of courage, you become courageous.
Words has power.
当我们出生时，我们在哭而身边的世界在欢庆。
我们应该选择的生活方式， 是当我们离开世间时，
身边的世界为了我们的离去哭泣，而我们自己在欢庆。
When we are born, we are crying while the world rejoices.
We should live our lives in such a way that when we die,
the world cries while we are rejoicing."
This story begins when I was a child: I was born poor. Often we hadn't enough to eat. Whenever we had some food, Mother often gave me her portion of rice. While she was transferring her rice into my bowl, she would say "Eat this rice, son! I'm not hungry."
This was Mother's First Lie.
As I grew, Mother gave up her spare time to fish in a river near our house; she hoped that from the fish she caught, she could give me a little bit more nutritious food for my growth. Once she had caught just two fish, she would make fish soup. While I was eating the soup, mother would sit beside me and eat what was still left on the bone of the fish I had eaten; My heart was touched when I saw it. Once I gave the other fish to her on my chopstick but she immediately refused it and said, "Eat this fish, son! I don't really like fish."
This was Mother's Second Lie.
Then, in order to fund my education, Mother went to a Match Factory to bring home some used matchboxes which she filled with fresh matchsticks. This helped her get some money to cover our needs. One wintry night I awoke to find Mother filling the matchboxes by candlelight. So I said, "Mother, go to sleep; it's late: you can continue working tomorrow morning." Mother smiled and said "Go to sleep, son! I'm not tired."
This was Mother's Third Lie.
When I had to sit my Final Examination, Mother accompanied me. After dawn, Mother waited for me for hours in the heat of the sun. When the bell rang, I ran to meet her. Mother embraced me and poured me a glass of tea that she had prepared in a thermos. The tea was not as strong as my Mother's love, Seeing Mother covered with perspiration; I at once gave her my glass and asked her to drink too. Mother said "Drink, son! I'm not thirsty!
This was Mother's Fourth Lie.
After Father's death, Mother had to play the role of a single parent. She held on to her former job; she had to fund our needs alone. Our family's life was more complicated. We suffered from starvation. Seeing our family's condition worsening, my kind Uncle who lived near my house came to help us solve our problems big and small. Our other neighbors saw that we were poverty stricken so they often advised my mother to marry again. But Mother refused to remarry saying "I don't need love."
This was Mother's Fifth Lie.
After I had finished my studies and gotten a job, it was time for my old Mother to retire but she carried on going to the market every morning just to sell a few vegetables. I kept sending her money but she was steadfast and even sent the money back to me. She said, "I have enough money."
That was Mother's Sixth Lie.
I continued my part-time studies for my Master's Degree. Funded by the American Corporation for which I worked, I succeeded in my studies. With a big jump in my salary, I decided to bring Mother to enjoy life in America but Mother didn't want to bother her son; she said to me "I'm not used to high living."
That was Mother's Seventh Lie.
In her dotage, Mother was attacked by cancer and had to be hospitalized. Now living far across the ocean, I went home to visit Mother who was bedridden after an operation. Mother tried to smile but I was heartbroken because she was so thin and feeble but Mother said, "Don't cry, son! I'm not in pain."
That was Mother's Eighth Lie.
M - O - T - H - E - R
"M" is for the Million things she gave me,
"O" means Only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the Tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her Heart of gold,
"E" is for her Eyes with love-light shining in them,
"R" means Right, and right she'll always be.
Put them all together,
they spell "MOTHER" a word that means the world to me.
There is nothing more important than your family, spend more time with them before it is too late.
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While a man was polishing his new car, His 4 yr old son picked up a stone And scratched lines on the side of the car. In anger, the man took the child's hand and hit it many times not realizing he was using a wrench. At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers due to multiple fractures. When the child saw his father..... with painful eyes he asked, 'Dad when will my fingers grow back?' The man was so hurt and speechless; he went back to his car and kicked it a lot of times. Devastated by his own actions...... sitting in front of that car he looked at the scratches; the child had written 'LOVE YOU DAD'. The next day that man committed suicide. . .
Anger and Love have no limits; choose the latter to have a beautiful, lovely life & remember this: Things are to be used and people are to be loved. The problem in today's world is that people are used while things are loved. Let's try always to keep this thought in mind: Things are to be used, People are to be loved.
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character; Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
I hope you have a good day no matter what problems you may face it's the only day you'll have before it's over.
One of the advertisement that Yasmin Ahmad did for Petronas, which I think is very meaningful and has family values that people tend to overlook and forget.
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