PREFACE

Thank to Almighty God who has given His bless to the writer for finishing the
English scrapbook entitled “Wise Saying”.

On this occasion, we would like to thank profusely to all those who have
helped us in completing the writing of this scrapbook, and particularly to Mrs. Siti
Chusniah, S.Pd as our English Teacher, and also to our friends who have contributed
their ideas and motivation for writing this scrapbook.

Hopefully, this scrapbook can help the readers yo expand their knowledge
about Wise Saying

Kutowinangun, January 2017

The Writer
 Wise Saying
a. Adversity
“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have
strengthened me....You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the
teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

-- Walt Disney --

Short biography of Walt Disney

Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois, to his

father Elias Disney, and mother Flora Call Disney. Walt was one of five children,
four boys and a girl.

After Walt’s birth, the Disney family moved to Marceline Missouri, Walt
lived most of his childhood here.
Walt had very early interests in art, he would often sell drawings to
neighbors to make extra money. He pursued his art career, by studying art and
photography by going to McKinley High School in Chicago.
Walt began to love, and appreciate nature and wildlife, and family and
community, which were a large part of agrarian living. Though his father could be
quite stern, and often there was little money, Walt was encouraged by his mother,
and older brother, Roy to pursue his talents.
Walt Disney is a legend; a folk hero of the 20th century. His worldwide
popularity was based upon the ideals which his name represents: imagination,
optimism, creation, and self-made success in the American tradition. He brought
us closer to the future, while telling us of the past, it is certain, that there will never
be such as great a man, as Walt Disney.

b. Gratitude
 “We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in
our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our
school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat
everyone with respect.”

--Michelle Obama--

Short biography of Michelle Obama

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago,

Illinois, to parents Marian and Fraser Robinson. Although Fraser’s modest pay as a
city-pump operator led to cramped living in their South Shore bungalow, the
Robinsons were a close-knit family, with Michelle and older brother Craig pushed to
excel in school. Both children skipped the second grade, and Michelle was later
chosen for a gifted-student program that enabled her to take French and advanced
biology courses.

Making the lengthy daily trip to attend Whitney M. Young Magnet High
School, Michelle became student council treasurer and a member of the National
Honor Society before graduating as class salutatorian in 1981. She then followed her
brother to Princeton University, where she created a reading program for the children
of the school’s manual laborers. A sociology major with a minor in African-American
studies, she explored the connections between the school’s black alumni and their
communities in her senior thesis, graduating cum laude in 1985.

After earning her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1988, Michelle joined the
Chicago office of the law firm Sidley Austin as a junior associate specializing in
marketing and intellectual property. Assigned to mentor a summer intern named
Barack Obama, she deflected his initial romantic advancements before they began
dating. They were engaged within two years, and married at the Trinity United
Church of Christ on October 3, 1992.

c. Happiness
 “Happiness is not something ready made. It
comes from your own actions”.

---Dalai Lama XIV---

Short biography of Dalai Lama XIV

Lhamo Döndrub (or Thondup) (Dalai Lama XIV) was born on 6 July
1935 to a farming and horse trading family in the small hamlet of Taktser, at the
edges of the traditional Tibetan region of Amdo, which was politically part of
the Chinese province of Qinghai. His family was of Monguor extraction. His
mother, Diki Tsering, gave birth to him on a straw mat in the cowshed behind
the house. He was one of seven siblings to survive childhood. The eldest was
his sister Tsering Dolma, eighteen years his senior. His eldest brother, Thupten
Jigme Norbu, had been recognised at the age of eight as the reincarnation of the
high Lama Taktser Rinpoche. His sister, Jetsun Pema, spent most of her adult
life on the Tibetan Children's Villages project. The Dalai Lama's first language
was, in his own words, "a broken Xining language which was (a dialect of) the
Chinese language", a form of Central Plains Mandarin, and his family did not
speak the Tibetan language.

According to the Dalai Lama, he had a succession of tutors in Tibet

including Reting Rinpoche, Tathag Rinpoche, Ling Rinpoche and lastly Trijang
Rinpoche, who became junior tutor when he was nineteen. At the age of 11 he
met the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, who became his videographer
and tutor about the world outside Lhasa. The two remained friends until
Harrer's death in 2006.

In 1959, at the age of 23, he took his final examination at Lhasa's

Jokhang Temple during the annual Monlam or Prayer Festival. He passed with
honours and was awarded the Lharampa degree, the highest-level geshe degree,
roughly equivalent to a doctorate in Buddhist philosophy

d. Healing
 "Healing does not mean going back to the way things were
before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to
God."

---Ram Dass---

Short biography of Ram Dass

Richard Alpert was born to a Jewish family in Newton, Massachusetts. His

father, George Alpert, was a lawyer in Boston, president of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad, one of the founders of Brandeis University and the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as well as a major fundraiser for Jewish causes.
While Richard did have a bar mitzvah, he was "disappointed by its essential
hollowness". He considered himself an atheist and did not profess any religion during
his early life, describing himself as “inured to religion. I didn’t have one whiff of God
until I took psychedelics.

In February 1997, Ram Dass had a stroke that left him with expressive
aphasia, which he interprets as an act of grace. He continued to make public
appearances and talks at small venues. He continues to teach through live webcasts
and at retreats in Hawaii. When asked if he could sum up his life's message, he
replied, "I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help
people ... to me, that's what the emerging game is all about." Ram Dass was awarded
the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award in August 1991.

In 2013, Ram Dass released a memoir and summary of his teaching, Polishing
the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart. In an interview about the book, at
age 82, he said that his earlier reflections about facing old age and death now seem
naive to him. He said, in part: "Now, I’m in my 80s ... Now, I am aging. I am
approaching death. I’m getting closer to the end. ... Now, I really am ready to face the
music all around me."

e. Hope
“Hope is being able to see that there is light
despite all of the darkness”.

---Desmond Tutu---
Short biography of Desmon Tutu

Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal 7 October 1931 in

South Africa. As a vocal and committed opponent of apartheid in South Africa he
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.

After graduating from school he studied at the University of South Africa. With
a degree he became a high school teacher. Desmond Tutu then took up the study of
theology and spent several years in England to further his theological study.

In 1975 he was appointed Dean of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Johannesburg, the

first black to hold that position. From 1976 to 1978 he was Bishop of Lesotho, and in
1978 became the first black General Secretary of the South African Council of
Churches.

In 1976, there were increasing levels of protests by black South Africa against
apartheid, especially in Soweto. In his position as a leading member of the clergy,
Desmond Tutu used his influence to speak strongly and unequivocally against
apartheid, often comparing it to Fascist regimes.

His outspoken criticism caused him to be briefly jailed in 1980 and his passport
was twice revoked. However, due in part to his position in the church the government
were reluctant to make a ‘martyr’ out of him. Thus, Desmond Tutu had more
opportunity to criticise than perhaps other members of the ANC.

In the post Apartheid era, Desmond Tutu is credited with coining the phrase
‘rainbow nation’ A symbolic term for the aspiration to unite South Africa and forget
past divisions. Tutu has often called for a message of reconciliation and forgiveness.

f. Individuallity
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make
you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

--Ralph Waldo Emerson--

 Short biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson

American poet, essayist, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on
May 25, 1803, in Boston, Massachusetts. After studying at Harvard and teaching for a
brief time, Emerson entered the ministry. He was appointed to the Old Second
Church in his native city, but soon became an unwilling preacher. Unable in
conscience to administer the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper after the death of his
nineteen-year-old wife of tuberculosis, Emerson resigned his pastorate in 1831.

The following year, he sailed for Europe, visiting Thomas Carlyle and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge. Carlyle, the Scottish-born English writer, was famous for his
explosive attacks on hypocrisy and materialism, his distrust of democracy, and his
highly romantic belief in the power of the individual. Emerson’s friendship with
Carlyle was both lasting and significant; the insights of the British thinker helped
Emerson formulate his own philosophy.

On his return to New England, Emerson became known for challenging

traditional thought. In 1835, he married his second wife, Lydia Jackson, and settled in
Concord, Massachusetts. Known in the local literary circle as “The Sage of Concord,"
Emerson became the chief spokesman for Transcendentalism, the American
philosophic and literary movement. Centered in New England during the 19th
century, Transcendentalism was a reaction against scientific rationalism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson died of pneumonia on April 27, 1882.

g.Renewal
“
Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your
body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
”

----Ralph Marston------
 Short biography of Ralph Marston

On 26 August 1900 Hedley Ralph Marston was born at Bordertown, South

Australia, on the eastern edge of the Ninety Mile Desert. This area was later to
flourish under the name of Coonalpyn Downs, primarily as a result of the scientific
work of Marston and his colleagues. He was the third son of Septimus Herbert, a
telegraphist, and Mary Frances Ann Marston (nee Bishop), a librarian, each of whose
parents had emigrated to South Australia from England in the mid-nineteenth century.
Hedley Marston was therefore a second generation South Australian, destined to
spend virtually the whole of his working life in that state.

Within a year of Hedley's birth, the Marston family moved to Adelaide where
Septimus continued his career as telegraphist and supervisor until his retirement. He
was reputed to be a rather austere man, contrasting with the warm and open-hearted
nature of his wife to whom the young Hedley was devoted. Hedley attended the
Unley Primary School and later the Unley District High School where at the age of
14 he passed the Primary Public Examination. He does not appear to have taken any
of the higher public examinations but Mark Oliphant, one of his fellow pupils at
Finley, who remained his life-long friend, recalls him "as a studious boy, with a
special liking for chemistry".

h. Unity
“Unity to be real must stand the severest
strain without breaking.”

-Mahatma gandhi-
 Short Biography of Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in 1869, in Porbandar, India. Mohandas was

from the social cast of tradesmen. His mother was illiterate, but her common sense
and religious devotion had a lasting impact on Gandhi’s character. As a youngster,
Mohandas was a good student, but the shy young boy displayed no signs of
leadership. On the death of his father, Mohandas travelled to England to gain a degree
in law. He became involved with the Vegetarian Society and was once asked to
translate the Hindu Bhagavad Gita. This classic of Hindu literature awakened in
Gandhi a sense of pride in the Indian scriptures, of which the Gita was the pearl.

Around this time, he also studied the Bible and was struck by the teachings of
Jesus Christ – especially the emphasis on humility and forgiveness. He remained
committed to the Bible and Bhagavad Gita throughout his life, though he was critical
of aspects of both religions.

At the age of 78, Gandhi undertook another fast to try and prevent the sectarian
killing. After 5 days, the leaders agreed to stop killing. But ten days later Gandhi was
shot dead by a Hindu Brahmin opposed to Gandhi’s support for Muslims and the
untouchables.

i. Genius
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around
so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

--Gertrude Stein--
 Short Biography of gertrude Stein

Writer and art patron Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874, in
Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Gertude Stein was an imaginative, influential writer in the
20th century. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, she spent her early years in
Europe with her family. The Steins later settled in Oakland, California.

Stein graduated from Radcliffe College in 1898 with a bachelor’s degree. While
at the college, Stein studied psychology under William James (and would remain
greatly influenced by his ideas). She went on to study medicine at the prestigious
Johns Hopkins Medical School.

During World War I, Stein bought her own Ford van, and she and Toklas
served as ambulance drivers for the French. After the war, she maintained her salon
(though after 1928 she spent much of the year in the village of Bilignin, and in 1937,
she moved to a more stylish location in Paris) and served as both hostess and an
inspiration to such American expatriates as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway
and F. Scott Fitzgerald (she is credited with coining the term "the Lost Generation").
She also lectured in England in 1926 and published her only commercial success, The
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), which she wrote from Toklas's point-of-
view.

Gertrude Stein died on July 27, 1946, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Though

critical opinion is divided on Stein's various writings, the imprint of her strong, witty
personality survives, as does her influence on contemporary literature.