para sa 1 & 2...
a. (quote at pangalan ng ninuno)
"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self." - Henri Frederic Amiel
translation - "Hindi ka matututong rumespeto ng iba kung wala kang pag papakumbaba sa iyong sarili."
b. (bio)
Birthdate: 28 September 1821
Death date: 11 May 1881
Henri Frederic Amiel was a Swiss philosopher, poet and critic.
He was born in Geneva in 1821, he was descended from a Huguenot family driven to Switzerland by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
After losing his parents at an early age, Amiel travelled widely, became intimate with the intellectual leaders of Europe, and made a special study of German philosophy in Berlin. In 1849 he was appointed professor of aesthetics at the academy of Geneva, and in 1854 became professor of moral philosophy. These appointments, conferred by the democratic party, deprived him of the support of the aristocratic party, which comprised nearly all the culture of the city.
This isolation inspired the one book by which Amiel is still known, the Journal Intime ("Private Journal"), which, published after his death, obtained a European reputation. It was translated into English by Mary A. Ward at the instigation of Mark Pattison.
Although second-rate as regards productive power, Amiel's mind was of no inferior quality, and his Journal gained a sympathy that the author had failed to obtain in his life. In addition to the Journal, he produced several volumes of poetry and wrote studies on Erasmus, Madame de Stael and other writers. He died in Geneva.
c. (other ideas)
"Common sense is calculation applied to life." - Henri Frederic Amiel
translation - "Ang sentido kumon ay isang kalkulasyong inilalapat sa realidad."
Mabuti pa'y ipaliwanag ko nalang. Kung tama man ang aking pag kakatranslate at pagkakaintindi, kumbaga'y ang common sense ay isa sa ating basic instincts. Bakit ito inihalintulad sa isang kalkulasyon? Kadalasan, ang mga formulas/calculation na nakakadaupang palad natin ay katulad ng trigonometric functions, distance formula, quadratic equations, at kung anu-ano pa. Pero kung ating iisipin, matutulungan nga ba tayo ng distance formula sa pagtawid sa kalye? Ang sagot, pwede. Pero malamang ay nasagasaan ka na bago mo pa makompyut ang lalakarin mo.
Sa madaling sabi, kelangan mong gumamit ng pag-eestima. Kelangan mong isipin ng mabilisan ang mga pangyayari. Dyan papasok ang common sense. :)
"It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is." - Henri Frederic Amiel
translation -"Hindi sa kung anong meron, o kahit na kanyang mga ginagawa nasusukat ang tunay na kahalagahan ng isang tao, kundi sa kung SINO siya."
Magbigay na lamang tayo ng halimbawa. Kunyari, ex-convict. Kahit anong pagbabago nya, masama padin ang tingin sa kanya. Hindi ba?
Isa pa. Kunyari, isang religious leader (yung kadalasang nagtatayo ng sariling relihiyon). Kahit anong katarantad*han ang gawin nya'y mabuti padin ang pagtingin sa kanya.
Isa pa. Si Hesus, ang ating Panginoon (ganda points ako kay Lord! :D). Bakit hindi sya pinaniniwalaan sa kanilang bayan? Kasi lumaki sya roong isang anak ng karpintero, nasa mababang antas.
references:
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art43555.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henri_frederic_amiel.html
para sa 3 & 4...
a. (quote at pangalan ng ninuno)
"With self-discipline most anything is possible." - Theodore Roosevelt
translation - "Kung mayroon kang disiplina sa sarili, (halos) lahat ay possible."
b. (bio)
Birthdate: October 27, 1858
Death date: January 6, 1919
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President (1901–1909) he held offices at the municipal, state, and federal level of government. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.
Born to a wealthy family, Roosevelt was an unhealthy child suffering from asthma who stayed at home studying natural history. In response to his physical weakness, he embraced a strenuous life. He was home schooled and became a passionate student of nature. He attended Harvard, where he boxed and developed an interest in naval affairs. In 1881, one year out of Harvard, he was elected to the state legislature as its youngest member. Roosevelt's first historical book, The Naval War of 1812, published in 1882, established his professional reputation as a serious historian. After a few years of living in the Badlands, Roosevelt returned to New York City, where he gained fame for fighting police corruption. While effectively running the Department of the Navy, Spanish American War broke out from which he resigned and led a small regiment in Cuba known as the Rough Riders, earning himself a nomination for the Medal of Honor (which was received posthumously on his behalf on January 16, 2001). After the war, he returned to New York and was elected governor in a close fought election. Within two years later he was elected Vice President of the United States.
In 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated, and Roosevelt became president at the age of 42, taking office at the youngest age of any U.S. President in history. Roosevelt attempted to move the Republican Party in the direction of Progressivism, including trust busting and increased regulation of businesses. Roosevelt coined the phrase "Square Deal" to describe his domestic agenda, emphasizing that the average citizen would get a fair share under his policies. As an outdoorsman and naturalist, he promoted the conservation movement. On the world stage, Roosevelt's policies were characterized by his slogan, "Speak softly and carry a big stick". Roosevelt was the force behind the completion of the Panama Canal; he sent out the Great White Fleet to display American power, and he negotiated an end to the Russo-Japanese War, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Roosevelt was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in any field.
Roosevelt declined to run for re-election in 1908. After leaving office, he embarked on a safari to Africa and a tour of Europe. On his return to the US, a bitter rift developed between Roosevelt and his anointed successor as President, William Howard Taft. Roosevelt attempted in 1912 to wrest the Republican nomination from Taft, and when he failed, he launched the Bull Moose Party. In the election, Roosevelt became the only third party candidate to come in second place, beating Taft but losing to Woodrow Wilson. After the election, Roosevelt embarked on a major expedition to South America; the river on which he traveled now bears his name. He contracted malaria on the trip, which damaged his health, and he died a few years later, at the age of 60. Roosevelt has consistently been ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents.
c. other ideas
"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." - Theodore Roosevelt
translation: "Ang isang boto ay parang baril; ang kahalagahan nito ay nakadepende sa gumagamit."
Sa madaling sabi, ginagamit mo ang boto mo base sa pakay mo. Kung nais mo mang umunlad ang iyong bayan, malamang sa malamang ay sisiyasatin mo ang mga kandidato at masusing pipiliin ang nararapat sa posisyon.
Ang boto mo'y napupunta sa sa tingin mo'y nakakapbor sa'yo.
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
translation: "Maniwala kang kaya mo't makakamtan mo ang iyong naisin."
Malayo man ang translation, ganto ang pagkakaintindi ko sa kanya.
Yan kasi ang kalimitang wala sa atin. Sa una palang napanghihinaan na ng loob, sumusuko na. Kung iisipin natin sa umpisa na hindi natin ito kaya, hindi talaga ntin ito masisimulan, hindi natin ito magagawa. Pero pag inisip nating kaya natin, mahirap man o madali, siguradong makakaya natin ito! Yeah!
references:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/self-discipline.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/theodorero118459.html
para sa 5...
a. (quote at pangalan ng ninuno)
"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." - Anne Sullivan Macy
translation: "Mas kailangan ng isang bata ang paggabay at simpatya kesa sa simpleng panuto/instraksyon lamang."
b. (bio)
Birth date: April 14, 1866
Death date: October 20, 1936
Anne Sullivan was the daughter of Irish immigrant farmers Thomas Sullivan and Alice Cloesy; she had one brother, Jimmie, who was crippled from tuberculosis. Growing up, Anne was subject to poverty and physical abuse by her alcoholic father and at the age of five, trachoma struck Anne, leaving her almost blind. Two years later, her mother died and her father abandoned his children to an orphanage in Tewksbury where her brother died shortly thereafter.
Despite being left in an orphanage with no formal educational facilities, Anne Sullivan prospered. When the state board of charities chairman, Frank Sanborn visited the Tewksbury orphanage; Anne literally threw herself in front of him crying, "Mr. Sanborn, I want to go to school."
After regaining her eyesight from a series of operations and graduating as class valedictorian in 1886 from the Perkins Institute for the Blind, she began teaching Helen Keller. When Miss Sullivan first arrived, Helen was seven years old and highly undisciplined. Miss Sullivan had to begin her teaching with lessons in obedience, followed by teachings of the manual and Braille alphabets. Sullivan attended classes with Keller and tutored her through the Perkins Institute, The Cambridge School for Young Ladies and Radcliffe College. All who came in contact with them were amazed at the ability of Miss Sullivan to reach Miss Keller and Miss Keller's heightened ability to grasp concepts unheard of by deaf and blind students before her. Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Henry H. Rogers and John Spaulding were only a few of those who met them and supported them.
Throughout Helen's formal education and after, Miss Sullivan was often viewed with suspicion and speculation: many believed that Anne was trying to control Keller or use Keller. They did not trust the commitment that Anne Sullivan had to her student.
After Miss Keller's formal education, Anne Sullivan continued to assist Miss Keller by accompanying her on her travels and to various lecture tours. After Helen's graduation from Radcliffe, Anne married young Harvard instructor, John Albert Macy in 1905. The three lived together until 1912 when the Macy's separated.
Sullivan and Keller were constantly in demand to give lectures and to raise money for the American Foundation for the Blind. However, they often were too charitable and as a result had to supplement their income. The pair attempted to produce a movie, Deliverance, but it was unsuccessful; they experienced better success on the vaudeville circuit.
Eventually, Miss Sullivan's own eyesight failed her but toward the end of her life received recognition from Temple University, the Educational Institute of Scotland, and the Roosevelt Memorial foundation for her tireless teaching and commitment to Helen Keller.
c. other ideas
“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but the one you'll be glad to remember.” - Anne Sullivan Macy
translation-my version: "Ayos lang na magsimula't bumagsak muli. Dahil sa bawat simula't pagtayo mo ay tumitibay ka hanggang sa makamtan mo na ito."
Yes! Ang lalim! XD
Totoo naman ito sa kahit kanino. Kasi tayo'y natututo sa ating pagkakamali. Kaya nga experience is the best teacher hindi ba.
"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments." - Anne Sullivan Macy
translation-my version: "Ang katotohan ay hindi pa sapat para sa pahayagan; kung kaya nama'y dinaragdagan nila ito ng makukulay na palamuti."
Kahit pangit ang translation ko?
Self-explanatory! Kung baga'y para mas maging interesante ang mga balitang inilalagay sa pahayagan, o sabihin na nating impormasyon na galing kahit kaninu man, e.g. tsismis, dinaragdagan nila ito para mas maging interesante. Kaya naman nawawala na ang esensya ng katotohanan!
references:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/guidance.html
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/sull-ann.htm
http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Anne+Sullivan
para sa 6...
a. (quote at pangalan ng ninuno)
"Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty." - Timothy Radcliffe
b. (bio)
birth date: 1945
death date: -
Timothy Radcliffe is a Catholic priest and Dominican friar of the English Province, and former Master of the Order of Preachers from 1992-2001. He is the only member of the English Province of the Dominicans to have held the office since the Order's foundation in 1216.
He entered the Dominican order in 1965, was ordained priest in 1971, and taught Holy Scripture at Oxford University, in the Dominican center there known as Blackfriars Hall. He was elected provincial of England in 1987, then Master of the Dominican Order in 1992. From there he gained an international reputation thanks to his analyses of contemporary society, Christian life, religious life, and the situation of the Catholic Church. Several of his books became best-sellers. The subtlety of his thinking, together with the simplicity and depth of his language, and his strong sense of humor, made him a force to be reckoned with in the Catholic Church.
In 2001, after the expiration of his nine-year mandate as master of the Dominican order, Timothy Radcliffe took a sabbatical year. Starting in 2002 he became again a simple member of the Dominican community of Oxford, and he is now highly sought after speaker, teaching and preaching in many countries. In 2003, Radcliffe was made an honorary Doctor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, the University's highest honorary degree.
He was the 2007 winner of the The Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing, for his book What Is the Point of Being A Christian?
Radcliffe is patron of the International Young Leaders Network and helped to launch the Las Casas Institute on ethics, governance and social justice. These are both projects of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford.
Radcliffe has backed priestly marriage, sometimes called clerogamy.
c. (other ideas)
"One of our deepest needs is to be at home." - Timothy Radcliffe
translation: "Isa sa mga pangangailangan natin ay ang presensya ng tahanan."
(Nahihiloo na koo. :<)
Tahanan. Dito kung san tahimik. Kung saan peaceful. Kung saan pwede kang magpahinga.
Dito kung saan ka nakakaramdam ng pagmamahal at proteksyon.
references:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/celibacy.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Radcliffe
para sa 7...
a. (quote at pangalan ng ninuno)
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." -Mohandas Gandhi
translation: "Ang kalusugan ay ang tunay na kayamanan, hindi ang ginto at pilak."
b. (bio)
Birth date: 2 October 1869
Death date : 30 January 1948
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha. This is defined as resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence. This concept helped India to gain independence, and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is often referred to as Mahatma Gandhi. In India he is also called Bapu.He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.
Gandhi first employed civil disobedience while an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, during the resident Indian community's struggle there for civil rights. During this time, he wrote articles for Indian newspapers about black people that some modern readers consider racist. After his return to India in 1915, he organised protests by peasants, farmers, and urban labourers concerning excessive land-tax and discrimination. After assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights, build religious and ethnic amity, end untouchability, and increase economic self-reliance. Above all, he aimed to achieve Swaraj or the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led his followers in the Non-cooperation movement that protested the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (240 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930. Later, in 1942, he launched the Quit India civil disobedience movement demanding immediate independence for India. Gandhi spent a number of years in jail in both South Africa and India.
As a practitioner of ahimsa, Gandhi swore to speak the truth and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven from yarn that he had spun by hand himself. He ate simple vegetarian food, experimented for a time with a fruitarian diet, and undertook long fasts as a means of both self-purification and social protest.
On 30 January 1948, Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer meeting. The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.[49] Godse and his co-conspirator Narayan Apte were later tried and convicted; they were executed on 15 November 1949. Gandhi's memorial (or Samādhi) at Rāj Ghāt, New Delhi, bears the epigraph "Hē Ram, which may be translated as "Oh God". These are widely believed to be Gandhi's last words after he was shot, though the veracity of this statement has been disputed.
c. (other ideas)
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." - Mohandas Gandhi
translation: "Ang 'Hindi' na sinabi ng tapat ay mabuti pa kaysa sa 'Oo' na ginamit lang upang makapagyabang, mapalala ang mga bagay-bagay o makaiwas sa disgrasya."
Nakakalokang translation. :(
Kumbaga, dito natin maihahalintulad ang White lies. Mas mabuti na ang pagsasabi ng totoo kesa sa pagsisinungaling sa pag aakalang mas nakakabuti ito.
Remember, the end does not justify the means.
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - Mohandas Gandhi
translation: "Ang mata sa mata'y magdudulot lamang ng pagkabulag ng lahat."
Medyo ok translation. Yeee.
Tandaan mo pa yung "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"? Kumbaga kung anung kinuha/ninakaw/<insert bad things> mo ay ganun din ang syang kapalit nito? Kunyari, pumatay ka, edi papatayin ka din. Sa madaling sabi, hindi lahat ng bagay dapat ganto ang kabayaraan. Kasi kung yaong paniniwala ang susundin natin, maaaring lahat tayo'y mabulag sa sarili nating kapahamakan.
references:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/health.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mohandas_gandhi.html
