Thoughtful quotations to live by

Dr Abe V Rotor
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1. Help the other fellow to help himself
In the Henry Ford archives there is a small card on which one reads these printed words: Help the other fellow." And under it Ford had written: To help himself."

2. AJA: Analysis-Judgment-Action, and not Action-Judgment-Analysis. 

On the door of a classroom for inmates at Camp Sampaguita in Munlinlupa Penitentiary, is written in bold letters A-J-A. It is an acronym of Analysis-Judgment-Action. It became a motto to the residents in this minimum security compound. And they would jogged reciting AJA, AJA, AJA. 
As their teacher, I was delighted by the enthusiasm of the inmates who were enrolled in a special course sponsored by a foundation.  

One morning an inmate approached me.  He was very sad and told me what a big mistake he committed. "Napagpalit ko po, ang dalawang A." 

He exchanged the last A with the first A.  Action-Judgment-Analysis. 

"Kaya sir, naandito ako sa pihitan."  That's how he got into trouble and imprisoned. 

3. More than Open Sesame!

"He who wants to do good

knocks at the gate;

he who loves

finds the gate open."

4. Recipe of happiness. 

The great German philosopher, Goethe, gave this recipe of happiness. "There are nine requisites for contented living:

Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

• health enough to make work a pleasure;
• wealth enough to support your needs;
• strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them;
• grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them;
• patience enough top toil until some good is accomplished;
• ]charity enough to see good in your neighbor;
• love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; 
• faith enough to make real the things of God;
• hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."