Facebook, Twitter, Friendster (remember this?), WhatsApp, BlackBerry Messenger, and many others turned out to be a success making millions of people in every country intoxicated. Perhaps no one has been addicted to social media, especially the users of smartphones. They became closer with your friends or family who live very far away, and getting away with the closest, even when we sit down with the people we care at home, café or airport lounge.

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It seems like the information technology managed to make us as anti-social beings, so that we become less in real communication, maybe even cuddle up with a loved one.

 Well, I was moved by a video that I received from the WA group, where I became an active member. Maybe you also have to accept and watch this video. Hopefully you also touched when watching for the second time in this article. 

Let us see again together, with an expectation we will get back in touch with relatives, friends, even our neighbors to chat in real sense and laugh together, share stories, and even do fun things with them.  

I hope this video makes us realize "something very important" has been missing from our real lives. If you believe the purpose and the main purpose of this video, please share it with friends, neighbors, family and anyone you know. By doing so we will meet more often in the real meaning. You must know what you must do to be a real human beings.

I hope this video can inspire us all to get to know kemabali what is the meaning of friendship, love, togetherness, caring, and wonderful things that are supposed to be able to do, even we can enjoy our lives. Perhaps you will soon discover the real meaning of happiness.

Towards the end of the year, we might ponder what we have done before, and what plans or our expectations for the coming year. Perhaps no regrets because we are single or multiple failures that have occurred in our lives. There seems to be an unsolved problem, as if without a solution. However, if the sun always rises in the east, although not always right on the eastern horizon, the morning sun is always punctual in every season. Time probably will always pass, and often we do not care.

There are among us who may be hopeless, afraid to start something new, do not dare to change. Yes, almost everyone has experienced difficulties and challenges in life. And, every end of the year, ahead of the New Year's Eve we always have a moment to once again ponder about life, not only to regret the past, and we always have hope for a better future.

 

                                  Capturing a new hope at the summit of Mount Batur, Bali. Image: ubudraftingadventure.com

If the above narrative that does not inspire you or me, then I want to share many wonderful sayings or quotes that can wake you from solitude and ready for future action to build a more beautiful, more successful. 

If you have a dream that has not been fully realized, with all the courage we have, coupled with all the hopes of remaining in our hearts, then we can make a small hope become a remarkable achievement in the coming year. I know, you will rise up to pursue our dreams and embrace happiness. I believe, you also believe that the expectations will turn into a reality, even far exceed your expectations.

 

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The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. Melody Beattie

“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” Brad Paisley

“Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.” – John R. Dallas Jr.

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”  Lao Tzu

 “Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come."  Melody Beattie

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” Oprah Winfrey

 

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. Cavett Robert

As the New Year dawns,

I hope it is filled with the

promises of a brighter tomorrow.

Happy New Year! (Happy New Year Quotes 2016, happynewyearwishes.org)

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Gilbert K. Chesterton

And I love this quotes.

“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”  Criss Jami, Killosophy

Are you ready?

Are you planning anything special to celebrate New Year's Eve? There may be a sense of disappointment in the days, months and years that you've been through this year. Among you there is also a successful hit the target or your dreams. Happy or sad, has always been part of our lives. However, there is always a space for reflection, and prepare a new resolution in the new year.

There are a few quotes and saying ever written and spoken leaders, authors, celebrities or famous people, as described below. Hope can inspire and motivate you to make a new resolution or plan a day full of happiness and success in the new year.

Are you ready? 

Please share this simple article for anyone who is close to your heart, so that they also get inspiration for their happiness and new achievements for a year full of challenges, but always opens the gate to a new, more promising opportunities.

 “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”  Neil Gaiman

 

                              Start the new year with the first step to a successful and happy life. Image: myquoteshome.com

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. Sarah Ban Breathnach

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. Author Unknown

“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...”  Alfred Tennyson.

"Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress." - Charles Kettering.

"As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity." - Simon Newcomb.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. Brooks Atkinson

 

The new year with something better. Image: swide.com

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year's resolution. Jay Leno

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. Eric Zorn

New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ~Charles Lamb

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. Hamilton Wright Mabie

"We meet today/ To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one." - John Greenleaf Whittier

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. Goran Persson

Since human beings have a desire to an object or something else, then there must be an intermediary that enables the exchange. Before there was money in different shapes and materials as we do now, the man to barter to get something to meet the wants, needs and dreams, even ambition. 

 Money control and regulate the human race and the world. Image: vanderbilt.edu

When we think and talk about money, then there are many opinions and reviews even engraved in many beautiful words spoken or various quotes or written by leaders, writers, celebrities and regular people. Do you also have an opinion about money? 

Here I want to share a variety of quotes and saying about money that might give you inspiration, motivation even to enrich your life. 

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy. Unknown quotes.

 It is strange, people chase and hoard money, and even cheat the world to become rich only to finally leave it all behind. In the 21st century, the world is the body and the money is the blood. You spend your time to make a dime. It takes money to make money. You lose your health to make your wealth, but at the end it is funny because you leave back all your money. Money does not buy happiness but, it sure pays off stress. (coolnsmart.com/money_quotes).

 Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. Nelson Mandela 

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde

 “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”  Dorothy Parker 

“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.” J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. Frank Hubbard 

A good name is better than riches.Your good reputation is worth more than money. English sayings and proverbs

 It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. Margaret Thatcher 

Realize that you'll go broke trying to fix everyone else's financial problems. Sonya Parker. 

Money or wealth gives a sense of security and happy sentiment, but not a long lasting contentment, blissfulness and inner peace. Dr T.P.Chia

 Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. Ayn Rand 

Never spend your money before you have it. Thomas Jefferson

 “Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like.” Will Rogers 

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. John Wesley 

“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.” Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind 

“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.” Tennessee Williams 

Money attracts the females you want. Struggle attracts the woman you need. Rashida Rowe 

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus 

Actually many beautiful words about money can affect our lives now and in the future. Money is not everything, but everything can be problematic without money. 

Do you also think the same?

Not just people who need inspiration to motivate an action and the action, even a leader and a person who had been sitting at the top of any need encouragement. We should not hesitate to ask for advice or support of someone or others. Support in the form of prayer, hope, words of wisdom that inspire us, that we do not lose direction. To be successful, we will meet many obstacles, and even insults. Are we going to give up? Do not give up.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle Onassis

“I don’t regret the things I’ve done; I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” - Roy Goodman

Sunrise on the top of Gunung Agung, Bali. Image: bergita.org

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”  Veronica Roth

“Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” - Denis Waitley

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Eliot

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” - Jimmy Dean

“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”  C. Joy Bell C.

“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” Steve Jobs

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther  

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” Jack Canfield

See you at the top. Image: baliwiditours.com

Nothing is impossible; the word itself says 'I'm possible'! Audrey Hepburn 

“Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.” – Unknown

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” ― Sigmund Freud.

“Believe you can and you're halfway there” - Theodore Roosevelt

  

We will never know when our dreams will come true, depending on what and for what our goals and our dreams. Please do not stop before you move to venture to the summit of the dream, and your goodwill. See you at the top.

What is success? 

 Is it because we are very rich, a lot of money, famous, has a high position in the corporate, government, respected by society, has a gold medal for achievement is a success? 

Are there similarities between the success and happiness? Success is not just because you're a billionaire. Successful not because of your rank at an institution, etc. To achieve success not only seen from the end result alone. Process to realize the dream of being successful is very interesting to know.

Some quotes about success can we learn from these famous people, hopefully we get inspiration today.

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis

 A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley 

 Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson

  
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced. Swami Vivekananda.

 Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. 
Lydia M. Child 

Most successful men have not achieved their distinciton by having some new talent or opportunity to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. Bruce Barton

  Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe were meant to be. George Sheehan.

  Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes 

  

The successful always has a number of project planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight. Mark Caine.

  Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. Euripides

Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso 

  The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. Sven Goran Eriksson.

  Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that where you will find success. Thomas J. Watson

    Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. Arnold H. Glasgow

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley

  I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. 

Michael Jordan

Do you agree and want to make what they say on your motivation as a tool to achieve success and happiness? All up to you.

What can make you happy? You were born to be happy ormiserable? Are we destined to live happily or we decide to live happily? If we have a lot of money can make us happy? Is it true that when it's successful, then we will live happily with success and great wealth. In living a happy life is the dream of every person.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. Benjamin Franklin

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now. Steve Jobs

"True happiness consists in making happy."     Bharavi's Kiratarjuniya, Hindu 

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ...- Henry David Thoreau

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery." -Anne Frank 

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. Mother Teresa

"Be happy while you?re living, for you?re a long time dead." Scottish Proverb 

"Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man."
Muhammad Ali 

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Benjamin Franklin

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” — James Oppenheim


If you want to be happy today and forever, then remember the words of Mahatma Gandhi. He says this beautifully: "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do in harmony."