Being rich does not bring happiness; one who has a clean conscience has the most peace of mind.

If you have a lot of money and wealth, enough to spend for all you want, you are rich. You can use your money to buy everything except love, respect and happiness. You may be able to buy health, feeding yourself with all the vitamins and when you get sick, you can get a doctor to attend to you. Love, respect and happiness are non tangible things you cannot buy. You have to earn them.

Some people throw money to please people. I believe however, this action only returns love and respect for their money and attracts only evils. And they know it. They are cheating themselves.

To those people who are rich. I would advise you to spend your money wisely, donate generously only to those people who need it, help people who need help and even to the extent of giving your time and physical effort to help the needy. Be sincere in your approach. In this way, you would be able to get the satisfaction of helping people. And in this way, you earn your love and respect.

Be genuine, be honest and be sincere in your investment and earn the honest money. Have a clear conscience and happiness will be with you.

Remember the story of Mr. Scrooge. Take it as a life lesson.

To appreciate others is to respect your-self.

Showing appreciation to others for their works and contribution, irrespect of how small the contribution is, is a respect to that others. In return, they will respect you and appreciate your kind words.

Imaging, one person doing something in his capacity of his job position and you do not think that he or she is doing it with the intention of benefit to anybody at all, and not withstanding, you thank him (or her) for the effort he / she made, would your appreciation change his attitude or behaviour in the future?

A kind word is like perfume; if you spray it on others, a couple of drops will stay on you

Beautiful words. Perfume spraying on others, you are actually getting your fragrance of the perfume. People love those words and people love you. So, get yourself a lot of perfume and don't be stingy. Spray and spread those kind, encouraging, motivating, positive, gentle and good perfume on people you meet.

A person who always makes excuses for himself can never improve

I think this short saying is very wise and true. This kind of people who always make excuses are the same people who put blames on other people when things have gone wrong but, when things are ok and are promising, they always claim they are "the one who did them, and because of us, things are rosy" and proclaim their credits.

When you want to criticize others, be sure to think first whether you are perfect.

Yeh. I heard and I am still hearing friends complaining, criticizing other people. They talk about others as if they are perfect. Sometimes, I wonder whether he also talks about me, criticizes me when having a conversation with other people, at my back of course. And, he definitely gives me no chance to hear about it. Very unfair is it not? Sometimes, I feel like telling him that he is what he is talking about others.

The most obvious occassion in my social circle, an acquaintance (I better do not call him friend) used to say how bad so and so in his karaoke singing. "Out of key..."; "No tempo....."; "Sing like a cow...." and so on. For all that you would like to know, I never saw him going up to the stage, pick up the mic and sing!

Say good words, have good thoughts and do good deeds.

Religion aside. This wise saying is published by the Buddhist Tzu-Chi Merits Society Malaysia.

We tend to get irritated by things that turn out to be out of our expectations, unfavourable to us, incite our displeasure and so on. The more we think about these bad things, the more unhappy we are, and the more we become miserable. Why should we carry the burden of unhappiness on somebody else's wrongdoings, faults and offences. Let us look at the bad things and unfavourable situations from the other point of view. Let us think of the things that can positively contribute to our well being. For example, people critisize you could mean that you are not doing something right and perhaps you can improve what you have done. That would mean you are making an concerted effort to improve yourself. So be thankful and say thank you and further improve yourself.

Carry good words in your mouth always, think of the good things that can happen and do whatever you can to help yourself and other people. Turn all the bad words into good ones, change all the bad thoughts and make them good to motivate yourself to a further heights and instead to making other people unhappy, make them a happy lots. As time goes by, you will find your life is more meaningful and is more interesting.

So you are a genius

I am trying out this blog. Hopefully, I am able to use it to share my thoughts with you.