Kamis, 15 November 2012

How LUCKY you are?

Dalam hidup tentu ada suka, duka, senang, gembira, dan juga kita pasti pernah merasa beruntung atau "lucky"


Lucky is when you receive something GOOD that you didn't expect before..



BERUNTUNG itu seperti kalau kita memenangkan undian, lotere. setiap orang tentu mau merasa menjadi beruntung dalam hidupnya dan tentu mereka tahu ketika mengalami keberuntungan itu. walau tiap orang memiliki pandangan berbeda tentang beruntung


fortune cookies

















before that, maybe we can see the video abt the luckiest people in the world :D
enjoy!














Do you know any stories, jokes,idioms or proverbs about luck?

Proverbs

“We all dream a lot-
Some are lucky,
Some are not

But if you think it,
Want it, dream it
Then it’s real

You are what
You feel.”


Tim Rice

"None of us knows what
the next change
is going to be,
what unexpected opportunity
is just around the corner,
waiting to change all the
tenor of our lives."
Kathleen Norris


                                                                                                                                                                 "What we call luck 
is the inner man 
externalized."
Robertson Davies



“Losers live 
in the past. 

Winners learn 
from the past 
and enjoy working 
in the present 
toward the future.”

Denis Waitley
"Go and wake up
your luck."
Persian Proverb
"Throw a lucky 
man in the sea, 
and he will 
come up with 
a fish 
in his mouth." 

Arab Proverb
"Better an ounce 
of luck
than a pound 
of gold."

Yiddish Proverb

If there were 
dreams to sell, 
what would 
you buy?

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

“Winning is not 
a sometime thing, 
it's an all time thing. 

You don't win 
once in a while, 
you don't do 
things right
once in a while, 
you do them right 
all the time. 

Winning is habit. 

Unfortunately, 
so is losing.” 

Vince Lombardi

"You know 
what luck is? 

Luck is believing 
you're lucky...
to hold front 
position 
in this rat-race 
you've got to believe 
you're lucky."

Stanley Kowalski

Winning is great,
sure, but if you 
are really going 
to do something 
in life, 
the secret is
learning 
how to lose. 

Nobody goes 
undefeated 
all the time. 

If you can 
pick up after a 
crushing defeat, 
and go on to 
win again, 
you are going 
to be a champion 
someday.

Wilma Rudolph

"Luck sometimes 
visits a fool, 
but it never sits 
down with him."

German Proverb

"Once you win- 
people look at 
you differently."

Joyce Schwartz

"No gulls, 
no luck."

French Proverb

“Win as if you were
used to it, 
lose as if you 
enjoyed it 
for a change.” 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men 
believe in luck. 

Strong men 
believe in 
cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every dog 
has his day
in luck."

Japanese Proverb

“Always hope 
for the best, 
which would 
become the bridge 
between 
what you are and 
what you aim 
to become.
It may not 
happen soon 
but you will be 
surprised how 
it can change 
the course 
of the universe.”

Chaitanya Goteti


"No one 
is luckier 
than him 
who believes 
in his luck"

German Proverb

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk --- and to act..”
Maxwell Maltz

"Luck 
never made 
a man wise."

Seneca

"Luck affects 
everything; 
let your hook 
always be cast. 

In the stream 
where you least 
expect it, 
there will be fish."

Ovid

Too many of us 
are not living our 
dreams because 
we are living 
our fears.

Les Brown


"If a man who 
cannot count 
finds a four-leaf 
clover, 
is he lucky?"

Stanislaw J. Lec

"Men of action 
are favored 
by the Goddess 
of luck."

George S. Clason

"Good luck 
has its storms."

George Lucas

"I believe in luck: 
how else can you 
explain the success 
of those you dislike?"

Jean Cocteau

"Diligence is 
the mother of 
good luck."

Benjamin Franklin

"Men have made 
an idol of luck as 
an excuse for 
their own 
thoughtlessness."

Democritus


"Work and acquire, 
and thou hast 
chained the 
wheel of Chance."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The champion 
makes his 
own luck."

Red Blaik

"A little government 
and a little luck are 
necessary in life; 
but only a fool 
trusts either 
of them."

P.J. O'Rourke

"Nobody gets justice. 
People only get 
good luck or 
bad luck."

Orson Welles

"Luck is not 
something you 
can mention
in the presence 
of self-made men."

E.B. White

"Shallow men 
believe 
in luck."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 


"Luck is a 
dividend of sweat. 
The more you sweat, 
the luckier you get."

Ray Kroc

"I believe in luck. 

The harder I work 
the luckier I get."

Sam Shoen
"All of us 
have bad luck 
and good luck. 

The man who 
persists through 
the bad luck --

who keeps 
right on going -- 

is the man who 
is there when the 

good luck comes -- 

and is ready 
to receive it."

Robert Collier

"Everything 
in life 
is luck."

Donald Trump

"Luck's always 
to blame."

ean de la Fontaine
"I am a great 
believer in luck, 

and I find the 
harder I work, 

the more I 
have of it."

Thomas Jefferson

"Depend on 
the rabbit's foot 
if you will, 

but remember 
it didn't work 
for the rabbit."

R. E. Shay 

"The only 
sure thing 
about luck 
is that it 
will change."

Wilson Mizner
"Fortune 
favours 
the bold."

Terence

"Fortune brings in 
some boats that 
are not steered."

William Shakespeare


"Good luck 
needs no 
explanation."

Shirley Temple Black
"God does not
play dice with 
the universe"

Albert Einstein
"Luck is not
chance- It's Toil-
Fortune's 
expensive smile
Is earned-"

Emily Dickinson

"Fortune always 
will confer an aura

Of worth, 
unworthily; 

and in this world
The lucky person 
passes for a genius."

Euripedes
"Some folk want 
their luck
buttered."

Thomas Hardy
“Our mistakes 
don't make or 
break us - 
if we're lucky, 
they simply reveal 
who we really are, 
what we're really 
made of.”

Donn Moomaw

“A man on a date 
wonders if 
he'll get lucky. 

The woman 
already knows.”

Monica Piper

“The world 
is getting to be 
such a dangerous 
place, a man is 
lucky to get out 
of it alive.”

W. C. Fields

“A winner is 
someone who 
recognizes his 
God-given talents, 
works his tail off 
to develop them 
into skills, and 
uses these skills 
to accomplish 
his goals.” 

Larry Bird

Winning isn't 
everything. 

Wanting to is.

Elbert Green Hubbard

“A rich man is 
nothing but a 
poor man 
with money.”

W. C. Fields

“Sure I am 
this day we 
are masters 
of our fate, 
that the task 
which has 
been set before 
us is not above 
our strength; 
that its pangs 
and toils are 
not beyond 
our endurance. 

As long as we 
have faith in 
our own cause 
and an 
unconquerable 
will to win, 
victory will not 
be denied us.” 

Winston Churchill

“Strength does not
come from winning.

Your struggles
develop your
strengths.

When you go
through hardships
and decide not to
surrender, that
is strength.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Attitude is more
important than
the past,

than education,
than money,
than circumstances,

than what people
do or say.

It is more important
than appearance,
giftedness,
or skill.”

W. C. Fields
“A quitter
never wins
and a winner
never quits”

Napoleon Hill 

“If you're not 
making mistakes, 
you're not taking 
risks, and that 
means you're not 
going anywhere. 

The key is to 
make mistakes 
faster than the 
competition, so 
you have more 
changes to learn 
and win.” 

John W. Holt, Jr.
“Horse sense is 
the thing a horse 
has which keeps
it from betting 
on people.”

W. C. Fields

Opportunity often 
comes disguised 
in the form of 
misfortune, or 
temporary defeat. 

Napoleon Hill

I enjoy every 
opportunity and 
live every moment. 

And that is why 
I have no regrets. 

It’s when you
are not scared 
of losing that 
you win 
everything.

Shailendra Singh
“It ain't what 
they call you, 
it's what you
answer to.”

W. C. Fields


“Winning takes 
talent, to repeat 
takes character.” 

Vincent van Gogh

“Practice does 
not make perfect. 

Only perfect 
practice makes 
perfect.” 

Vince Lombardi 

The real winners 
in life are the 
people who look 
at every situation 
with an expectation 
that they can 
make it work 
or make 
it better.

Barbara Pletche

“If there's a will, 
prosperity 
can't be far 
behind.”

W. C. Fields

“If you are 
lucky enough 
to find a way 
of life you love, 
you have to 
find the courage 
to live it.”

Proverb
“Luck is 
believing 
you're lucky.”

Tennessee Williams
“If one is lucky,
a solitary fantasy
can totally 
transform 
one million 
realities.”

Maya Angelou

“Maybe I'm lucky 
to be going 
so slowly, 
because I may 
be going in the 
wrong direction”

Ashleigh Brilliant
"It's how 
you deal 
with failure 
that determines 
how you 
achieve 
success. 

David Feherty
“Friends love misery, 
in fact. 
Sometimes, 

especially if we 
are too lucky 
or too successful 
or too pretty, 

our misery is the 
only thing that 
endears us 
to our friends.”

Erica Jong

In the struggle 
for survival, 
the fittest win 
out at the 
expense of 
their rivals 
because they 
succeed in 
adapting 
themselves 
best to their 
environment.

Charles Darwin

“Good ideas 
are common - 

what's uncommon 
are people who'll 
work hard enough 
to bring them about”

Ashleigh Brilliant
Satisfaction 
does not come 
with achievement, 
but with effort. 

Full effort 
is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi

“I'm not yet 
desperate enough 
to do anything about 
the conditions that 
are making me 
desperate”

Ashleigh Brilliant

“There is no 
comparison 
between that 
which is lost by 
not succeeding 
and that lost 
by not trying.” 

Francis Bacon, Sr

“All I want 
is a little more 
than I'll ever get”

Ashleigh Brilliant

I think most of 
the people involved 
in any art always 
secretly wonder 
whether they are 
really there because
they're good or 
there because 
they're lucky.

Katharine Hepburn

The lucky person 
passes for a genius.

Euripides


People often remark 
that I'm pretty lucky. 

Luck is only 
important in so 
far as getting the 
chance to sell 
yourself at the 
right moment. 

After that, you've 
got to have talent 
and know how 
to use it.

Frank Sinatra


To be successful 
you have to 
be lucky, or a 
little mad, or 
very talented, or 
find yourself in 
a rapid growth field.

Edward de Bono

Successful people 
are very lucky. 

Just ask any failure.

Michael Levine


"Positive thoughts have
a profound effect on behavior 
and genes but only when they 
are in harmony with 
subconscious programming. 

And negative 
thoughts have an equally 
powerful effect."

Bruce H. Lipton, PhD

"An undisciplined mind
leaks vital energy in a
continuous stream of
thoughts, worries, and
skewed perceptions,
many of which trigger
disturbing emotions and
degenerative chemical
processes in the body."

Connie Grauds, RPh






LUCKY SYMBOLS

1.four leaf clover

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2. rabbit foot

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4. wishing well

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Throw in a coin and make a wish. One old tradition is that the coin is a gift to the Water Spirit of the well - and she may grant your wish.

A wishing well is a place where you toss a coin (another symbol of good luck) and make a wish. Wishing wells can be seen in children's programming on shows like Dragon Tales. Another fun example of a wishing well in popular culture is the wishing well the movie Goonies.
5. Bamboo
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6. Koi Fish
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7. hand symbols
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it has meaning like this: 
1st finger: Faith (iman)
2nd finger: Prayer (doa)
3rd finger: Pilgrimage (ziarah)
4th finger: Charity
5th finger: Fasting. (puasa)
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The "V" for victory is universal
if you know, sign language is one of the first forms of communication between peoples of different tribes.
8. golden kitty/cat

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Often seen in shops and businesses is using to attract prosperity and wealthy clients.


9. Dolphins

Dolphins are considered lucky in many different cultures the Ancient cultures of Greece, Summer, Egypt, and Rome. For "Christians and Native Americans. the dolphin is a symbol of Protection, and its image is said to bring good luck." (Ancient Spiral)






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