1000 Pocket Positives

香港人充滿負能量, 又多怨氣, 應該看正面的書. 


分類很仔細, 看起來有組織. 作者做了不少搜集功夫. 
我看金句, 也留意自己認識出那個名人, 很有趣的. 
好的句子, 就用來做What's app status. 勉勵自己. 

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. ~ Og Mandino

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most 

always like it the least. – Erica Jong

You know your’re getting older than the candles cost more than the cake. – Bob Hope

“Doublethink” means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. George Orwell

現在香港人很撕裂, 何曾會Doublethink, Geroge Orwell 的1984給人炒作. 如果他在生, 想知道他的汽車會不會裝上閉路電視. 

The put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. – Confucius

齊家治國平天下給翻譯成這個樣子. 

I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise. – Noel Coward

If you are not being criticized, you may not be doing much. – Donald Rumsfeld

我覺得有點阿Q精神

There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

When anger rises, think of the consequences. – Confucius

多聞闕疑，慎言其餘，則寡尤；多見闕殆，慎行其餘，則寡悔。言寡尤，行寡悔，祿在其中矣。

指說話做事慎重因而很少犯錯誤。

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides. – Pliny the Elder

妒忌他人的能力, 是懲罰自己. 

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. –Brian Tracy

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observation. – Sigmund Freud.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good. – Bertrand Russell

我覺得很精警. 不同學者說差不多的話. 

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in our worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. – Anthony Robbins

Our senses don’t deceive us; our judgement does.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you. - Anthony Robbins

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

香港人都要留意這一句.