...THE MEANINGS...

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.

Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.
What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry?

If love isn't a game, why are there so many players?
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

You can only go as far as you push!
Actions speak louder than words.
The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.

Don't let the past hold you back, you're missing the good stuff.
Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it.

A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.
Some people make the world special by just being in it.
Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.

When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.

True friendship never ends.
Friends are forever.
Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
Don't frown, you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Most people walk in and out of your life, but only friends leave footprints in your heart.

If u love something...let it go.
If it comes back to you its yours...
If it doesn't then it never was.

A kiss is just a kiss until u find the one you love.
A hug is just a hug until its from the one ur thinking of.
A dream is just a dream until u make it come true.
LOVE is just a word until its proven 2 u.

December 2005
Aryani, thanking u for sending this article to Marumauma

...BEST QUOTE...

"A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."
Nolan Bushnell
Founder of Atari Computer

"I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day."
Og Mandino
1923-1996, Author and Speaker

"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."
William Cobbett
762-1835, Journalist and Reformer

"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock ourselves."
Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, Poet

"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."
Rene Descartes
1596-1650, Philosopher and Scientist

"The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1906-2001, Author

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."
James Gordon
Medical Doctor

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
Conrad Hilton
1887-1979, Founder of Hilton Hotels

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw
British journalist,
Playwright and Nobel Prize winner

"I can't do everything, but I can do something. If we all did something. We could conquer anything."
Robert L. Shimmel
Humanitarian

"One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, US Statesman, Diplomat and Inventor

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
Mary Tyler Moore
Actress

"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Phyllis Bottom
1884-1963, Writer

"If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges."
Pat Riley
Professional Basketball Coach

"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."
Marian Anderson
1902-1993, Concert and Opera Singer

"There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them."
Clare Boothe
1903-1987, Author

"You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision."
Bob Proctor
Author and Speaker

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."
Margaret Thatcher
Former British Prime Minister

"Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more."
Robert Collier
Writer and Publisher

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Roman Catholic Missionary

...10 HOW.....

How can we get along with someone when we never know them?
How can we know someone when we never meet them in person?
How can we meet someone when we never have a heart to meet them?
How can we have a heart to meet someone when we never have faith on them?
How can we have faith on someone when we never trust them?
How can we trust someone when we never see them by our heart?
How can we see someone by our heart when we never try to reach them?
How can we try to reach someone when we never walk for them?
How can we walk for someone when we never have strong will?
How can we have strong will when we never love them?

-The End-

...LOST and LOVE...

If some lives are calling a perfect circle,
others take shapes in ways that we can't predict or always understand.
LOST has been a part of my life journey
but it has shown me what is precious, LOVE...

…WHEN WE LOVE SOMEONE…

Why we can’t forget someone, when we know they don’t love us?
Why keep them in our heart, when we know they won’t wanna have us?
Why let us miss our chances, when we can have them with others?
If we know they really don’t love us, just let them go now, not later…, for a longer relationship builds stronger emotions.

When we love someone we can feel the greatest joy we can ever know and we can hurt more than we can believe too.
When we love someone we should be ready to experience heartache and happiness at the same time.
That’s the reward and the risk...

Loving someone takes efforts.
To know our partner isn’t an easy way. It takes time to develop.
The key is how we could be able to communicate with each other, coz nobody could read anyone else’s mind. What happen today is we always presume that our partner knows what we think and feel. We think they know, but they don’t, at all...
We need time to develop the sense of each other’s thoughts.

Nowadays, everyday, everywhere, every moment, people fall in love. But, think... just how many of these relationships are self-sacrificing love and not just relationships which are formed only for the intense feeling of falling in love?

Let us truly understand love...
When we love someone, love them unconditionally, for who they are now, who they were in the past, and who they might be in the future...
Then, when we are very sure that we love someone, tell them how much we love them, coz we could be pass this chance only once...

I love this quote very much:
"Never be afraid to fall in love, it may hurt a lot, it may give you aches and pains, but if you don’t follow your heart, in the end you will cry even more for not giving love a chance."

Pesona Khayangan, 2 November 2004

...DREAM...

I was dreaming last night
I met someone
In a very quiet place
It was a beautiful place indeed
I was wondering who's that person
I never met him before
Wondering... wondering and keep wondering...
'till I was so tired
Now, on this beautiful Saturday morning
I try to figure out, to find
who the person in my dream was
still in my curiosity...
but
suddenly I stop wondering
I am completely stupefy
when I saw someone's profile
in front of my eyes
on my computer
He is the man in my dream last night
who touched my heart by his words
who could wrote lovely words in his blog spot
I don't even know who he is
but his words
could make my heart beating
could make me write this words
could make me see how beautiful life is,
to have someone
someone like him
someone who could make people believe
that there is still kindness in human being
as his best friend said in his testimonial
I believe to know him as a friend
is one of MIRACLE in me...
Hey Mr. Sometimes, would you be my friend?

...STILL...

After many years,
finally I saw him in front of the sacred place
He was standing there,
raised his right hand and called my name
God... What is he doing there, I said
I miss him so bad for years
I miss his voice
I miss the way he talked to me
I miss the time he strengthened me
I came to him and he was standing there,
un moving...
and telling me he has got someone with him
and introducing her to me
and leaving me without any blame
but,
I love him, still...

...MY LIFE...

My life is the gift from my loving and faithful God.
Today I recollect all His gifts to me, what He has
done for me, and I realize that none of what has been
happening to my life that He didn't see with His own
eyes. And now, as it always be,I recognize how
precious I am in His eyes.

Too many things have befallen in my life since I
committed my self to be His devoted pupil. There were
times when I crossed His path but He's constantly
brought me back to Him. With all the things He has
permitted to occur in my life, I've been transformed
and made to a more steady and mature state. And I
believe, from all things that's happening in my life,
that there's red and unbreakable line that connect
them all one by one proving that I am being perfectly
shaped through each my experiences

In times of happiness, He is there with me. In times
of trouble, He is also there for me. In facing all my
problems, He is there, and always be there, to help me
resolve them. In times of despair and solitude, He
accompanies me through them. He is caring. and I
always have a special place in His heart in whatever
state I'm in. He's always be my Father, a loving
Father who is continually showering me off with His
great and undying holy love and affection, His loving
child.

I have passed through some cycles in my life. When I
fell or lost in dark alleys, I could still hear His
gentle words, "My child,I am your God, I will always
be faithful waiting for you here. And I am still and
always be loving you." His voices were all the time
heard and touched my heart when I was down in sins.
His voices made me strong in His presence and raise
from my falls.

With His great invaluable gifts and blesses to me,
I've been motivated to give Him the best of me. I want
to see the world and look for what I can do for the
world so that the world may accept Him. There is one
important thing that I will always remember: "He
doesn't give His life for unworthy things. He didn't
come to my life and my heart for something
unworthy...He didn't come to this world and died in a
cross only just for me, His child, but also for
everybody, everybody who hardly knows Him at all."
However, the fact remains whether the world knows it.
But, how can the world learn about Him if I, one of
His loving children, do not act and behave as a true
christian? I am always busy with my bussiness. I did
learn a lot about the truth, but sometimes the truth
does not bring effect to the unbelievers. Sometimes I
remember that I have learned a lot yet I do not color
other people with what I've learned. I have to learn
more to make me salt and light of this world.

I want to prove Him how much I love Him. I want to
show the world that I really love Him, nevertheless, I
know that my love to Him needs to be proven. I hope
that my faith can make me do all these things. I
really want to show the world that I, His loving
child, act, behave and have the personality as a true
christian....
Is there anything better than to give HIM the
best?
--End of words

One moment in time, May 1999
Ray, thanks a lot for helping me on this

...HE...

From the very beginning,
He has been choosen for me
He belongs to me forever and...
He will never be taken away from me
He will always in my heart
He will alway be faithful and...
He will never forsake me
Sometimes my attitude make him sorrowful
A lot of times
I denied his presence in my heart
A lot of times
I hurt his heart by bringing other things
and doing something
that makes him feel betrayed
A lot of times I do it, but...
He, faithfully, is still waiting for me

Pangkalan Jati, October 23, 1995