Quotes About Love

1. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

2. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

3. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

4. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

5. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

6. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves

7. “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.”
― Bob Marley

8. “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

9. “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

10. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

11. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

12. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

13. “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

14. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

15. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
― William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well

16. “This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they’ll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them – actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can’t give up because if you give up, you’ll never find your soulmate. You’ll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe

17. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Laozi

18. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

19. “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

20. “You love me. Real or not real?”
I tell him, “Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

21. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

22. “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

23. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

24. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

25. “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

26. “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”

― Marilyn Monroe

27. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”

― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

28. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

― Anaïs Nin

29. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”

― Alfred Tennyson

30. “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Source : http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/love?page=2

20 Extremely Romantic Quotes You Should Say To Your Love

Get ready for some serious swooning. These are some of the most romantic lines we have ever read in YA lit. Have one to add? Share it with us in the comments below!

 

“No matter what has happened. No matter what you’ve done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it.”

––Defiance by C.J. Redwine

 

“I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I’ll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I’d do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.”

––Boundless by Cynthia Hand

 

“And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”

––Across the Universe by Beth Revis

 

“It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”

––Every Day by David Levithan

 

 

“I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.”

––The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson

 

“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”

––The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

 

 

“I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than I do, right this second.”

––Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

 

 

“Sometimes I can’t see myself when I’m with you. I can only just see you.”

––Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson

 

 

“I am catastrophically in love with you.”

––Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

 

 

“I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you.” 

––Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

 

 

“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it” 

––Delirium by Lauren Oliver

 

 

“I want everyone to meet you. You’re my favorite person of all time.”  

––Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

 

 

“If my love were an ocean,
there would be no more land.
If my love were a desert,
you would see only sand.
If my love were a star-
late at night, only light.
And if my love could grow wings,
I’d be soaring in flight.”

––Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

 

 

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

––The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

 

 

“I don’t care how hard being together is, nothing is worse than being apart.” 

––Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini

 

 

“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body.

I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”

––Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

 

 

“But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.”

––Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

 

 

“And I’ve realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn’t all we need—love is all there is.”

––Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson

 

 

“Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn’t know were there, even the ones they wouldn’t have thought to call beautiful themselves.”

––Wild Awake by Hilary T. Smith

 

 

“No matter where I went, I always knew my way back to you. You are my compass star.” 

––For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund

 

Source : http://www.epicreads.com/blog/16-extremely-romantic-quotes-you-should-say-to-your-love/

Top 100 Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational quotes and motivational quotes have the power to get us through a bad week, and can even  give us the courage to pursue our life’s dreams. In my book, 4 Keys to Happiness and Fulfillment at Work, I share surprising research into the true triggers of workplace motivation. So in the spirit of self motivation, here are 100 inspirational quotes.

1. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
2. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
3. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost
4. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
5. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
6. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan
7. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart
8. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
9. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
10. The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now. –Bill Cosby
11. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
12. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
13. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
14. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll
15. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
16. The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha
17. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb
18. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
19. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
20. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
21. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
22. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
23. Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso
24. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
25. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou
26. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
27. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
28. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
29. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
30. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra
31. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
32. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin
33. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
34. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
35. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus
36. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau
38. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
39. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.  –Booker T. Washington
40. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb
41. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
42. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
43. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato
44. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides
45. Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
46. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon
47. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
48. 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 that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
49. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius
50. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank
51. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
52. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
53. Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama
54. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg
55. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle
56. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
57. You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown
58. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie
59. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown
60. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
61. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington
62. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci
63. Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti
64. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong
65. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan
66. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin
67. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby
68. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
69. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb
70. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach
71. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot
72. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey
73. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh
74. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown
75. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.  –Ann Landers
76. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren
77. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray
78. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens
79. Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser
80. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks
81. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
82. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey
83. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama
84. You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
85. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan
86. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.
87. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
88. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins
89. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem
90. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison
91. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills
92. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt
93. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses
94. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
95. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
96. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln
97. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
98. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin
99. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
100. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs
101. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

source : http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2013/05/28/inspirational-quotes/

Kisah kejujuran para tentara saat perang kemerdekaan

Di tengah peperangan, nyaris tak ada aturan yang berlaku. Yang kuat yang berkuasa, yang pegang senjata bisa menindas dan merampok rakyat.

Tapi tak harus selalu seperi itu. Buktinya, dalam perang kemerdekaan banyak kisah teladan para prajurit TNI. Kejujuran mereka bikin geleng-geleng kepala. Jika mau bisa saja mereka lari membawa uang negara dan memperkaya diri sendiri. Tapi hal itu tak dilakukan.

Ada juga kisah tentara yang tak mau makan makanan hasil rampasan karena menganggapnya tidak halal. Luar biasa, di tengah perang dan kelaparan, iman masih bisa dipegang.

Ironis, setelah 68 tahun Indonesia merdeka, jarang sekali pejabat yang meneladani para prajurit TNI di awal kemerdekaan ini. Korupsi dan makan uang haram dilakukan hampir setiap pejabat. Tak malu lagi merampok uang rakyat demi memperkaya diri sendiri.

Berikut kisah kejujuran tentara seperti dituturkan Kolonel (Purn) Alex Evert Kawilarang dalam biografi Untuk Sang Merah Putih karya Ramadhan KH yang diterbitkan Pustaka Sinar Harapan.

1. Tolak makan makanan haram

Biasanya dalam perang, tentara makan rampasan perang itu hal biasa. Kadang malah mengambil ternak milik penduduk untuk disantap. Tapi teladan langka ditunjukan oleh seorang Perwira bernama Letnan Gojali.

Tahun 1946, Kepala Staf Resimen Divisi II TNI Mayor Alex Evert Kawilarang menumpas gerombolan perampok di Cibarusah Bogor. Setelah baku tembak mereka mengalahkan para perampok yang meresahkan warga.

Setelah berjaga semalaman, Kawilarang mencari sarapan. Dia melihat ada anak buahnya yang makan pisang di markas itu, Kawilarang lalu ikut makan.

Tapi yang membuatnya heran, seorang anak buahnya yang bernama Letnan Muda Gojali, tak ikut makan. Kawilarang pun bertanya apa Gojali tidak lapar?

“Neen Mayoor, die pisang is gekocht met gerampokt geld. Ik eet dat niet (Tidak mayor, pisang itu dibeli dari uang hasil rampokan, saya tidak mau makan,” jawab Gojali.

Kawilarang kagum mendengar jawaban Gojali. Kepercayaan pada anak buahnya itu makin besar.

2. Tak tergiur guci berisi harta karun emas permata

Anak buah Mayor Kawilarang melakukan penggalian di bekas markas Jepang di sekitar Cigombong. Mereka mencari senjata Jepang yang biasanya disembunyikan dengan cara dikubur dalam tanah.

Tapi bukannya senjata, para prajurit TNI itu malah menemukan sebuah guci besar. Lebih mengejutkan, isi guci itu ternyata penuh emas dan permata dan berkilauan.

Walau bisa kaya tujuh turunan, para tentara jujur itu tak mau mengambilnya. Mereka lalu lapor dan menyerahkan harta itu pada Kawilarang, komandan mereka. Kawilarang juga jujur, dia tak mau makan emas permata peninggalan Jepang. Dia berniat menyerahkan harta temuan pasukannya pada pemerintah Indonesia yang saat itu masih morat-marit.

Kawilarang tahu harus mengutus siapa. Dia memanggil Letnan Muda Gojali yang jujur. Kawilarang mengutus Gojali menyerahkan harta karun itu ke Kementerian Dalam Negeri di Purwokerto.

Gojali melaksanakan tugasnya dengan baik. Dia menyerahkan harta karun pada Sumarman yang kala itu menjabat Sekretaris Mendagri.

Berapa nilai harta karun tersebut, sebuah majalah pernah mencoba menghitung berdasar bukti-bukti otentik yang ditemukan. Isinya tak kurang dari tujuh kilogram emas dan empat kilogram permata. Nilainya kala itu saja diperkirakan Rp 6 miliar. Bandingkan besarnya jumlah itu dengan gaji seorang tentara yang kala itu berkisar Rp 50.

3. Kurir penuh bahaya antarkan uang ke Bogor

Kisah kejujuran lain terjadi tahun 1947, saat Kawilarang masih berpangkat Mayor. Dia masih menjabat Kepala Staf Brigade di Bogor. Kala itu TNI harus bergerilya setelah Belanda melancarkan Agresi Militer Belanda I.

Kawilarang meminta bantuan pada Kolonel TB Simatupang untuk biaya pasukan Brigade di Bogor. Markas Besar TNI kemudian mengirimkan uang itu dari Jakarta ke Bogor lewat kurir.

Perjalanan kurir ini luar biasa bahayanya. Selain terancam pasukan Belanda, mereka juga diintai oleh perampok dari republik sendiri. Tapi tak ada yang takut kala itu. Kawilarang pun terharu saat uang bantuan itu diterimanya utuh.

“Hal yang luar biasa. Uang itu lengkap, tak kurang satu sen pun,” kata dia.

4. Uang gaji tak dibawa kabur

23 Januari 1950, tentara Divisi Siliwangi di Bandung tengah berbahagia. Untuk pertama kalinya mereka akan menerima gaji. Setelah Indonesia merdeka, memang TNI belum sempat menerima gaji rutin. Mereka selalu direpotkan oleh Agresi Militer Belanda I dan II. Tak ada yang berpikir gaji, semuanya mementingkan mempertahankan Indonesia dan berjuang demi bangsa.

Maka hari itu semua perwira keuangan Divisi Siliwangi berkumpul di kamar divisi keuangan. Tiba-tiba terdengar tembakan di luar markas. Tentara Angkatan Perang Ratu Adil (APRA) pimpinan Kapten Westerling menyerang Bandung.

Dengan keji pemberontak ini menembaki semua anggota TNI yang ditemui. Situasi lebih buruk karena menjelang penyerahan kekuasaan dari Belanda, TNI dilarang membawa senjata jika berada di kota.

Pasukan APRA bergerak melewati Braga, hampir menuju markas Divisi. Maka Kepala Keuangan Siliwangi bertindak cepat. Dia membagikan uang pada stafnya, yang memasukan uang ke dalam kantong dan segera melompat menyelamatkan diri. Mereka diperintahkan kembali ke markas esok hari setelah situasi aman dengan membawa uang itu.

“Keesokan harinya semua kembali ke staf dengan membawa uang untuk pasukan-pasukan dan dinas-dinas untuk melaksanakan secara resmi timbang terima uang itu. Ternyata tidak kurang satu sen pun. Begitulah tanggung jawab anggota TNI,” kata Kolonel AE Kawilarang yang pernah menjadi Panglima Teritorium III Siliwangi.

Bayangkan berapa besar uang itu. Ketika itu paling tidak Divisi Siliwangi mempunyai 8.000 prajurit. Tapi tak seorang pun punya niat membawa kabur uang tersebut.

“Waktu itu jangan coba anggota keuangan kembali ke pasukannya tanpa uang dengan alasan yang bukan-bukan. Pasti hukum rimba berlaku. Dan tidak ada sogok menyogok waktu itu,” kata Kolonel Kawilarang.

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Logo Garuda Pancasila diciptakan eks jenderal tentara Belanda

Pancasila diagung-agungkan sebagai dasar negara Indonesia. Lambang burung Garuda dipasang di setiap ruang kelas dan institusi resmi. Tapi nama pembuat lambang Garuda Pancasila seolah dilupakan. Hanya segelintir orang yang mengenal Sutan Hamid Algadrie atau Sultan Hamid II sebagai pembuatnya. Hamid II malah lebih dikenal sebagai pemberontak.

Siapa Sultan Hamid II?

Sosoknya ganteng, tegap dan perlente. Di darahnya mengalir darah ningrat Kesultanan Pontianak. Dia satu dari sedikit orang pribumi yang bisa lulus Akademi Militer Belanda di Breda. Sultan Syarif Hamid Alqadri dilahirkan 12 Juli 1913. Putra Sultan Syarif Muhammad Alkadri, Sultan keenam Pontianak.

Walau terlahir dari Kesultanan Islam, kehidupan Hamid Alqadri sepertinya lebih ke-Eropa-eropaan. Dia sempat masuk Technische Hooge School (THS). Tetapi dia akhirnya lebih memilih menjadi perwira tentara Belanda yang disebut Koninklijk Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger (KNIL). Hamid muda memutuskan masuk ke Koninklijke Militaire Academie di Breda. Dia mengaku sangat tertarik dengan kehidupan militer.

Setelah lulus, Hamid menjadi Letnan II. Hamid juga menikah dengan wanita Belanda bernama Marie van Delden. Wanita yang dikenal dengan nama Dina Van Delden ini putri Kapten seorang tentara Belanda.

Masuknya Jepang, menghancurkan kekuatan Belanda di Nusantara. Hamid yang sempat berperang di Balikpapan ini kemudian dijebloskan Jepang ke penjara di Batavia. Dia ditahan dari tahun 1942-1945. Baru bebas setelah Jepang dikalahkan sekutu.

Hamid kembali menjadi tentara Belanda. Pangkatnya dinaikkan menjadi Kolonel, kemudian Jenderal Mayor. Mungkin dia pribumi dengan pangkat militer tertinggi. Tapi akhirnya dia melepaskan diri dari dinas militer dan memimpin rakyat Pontianak.

Diakui Hamid, sebuah keputusan yang berat meninggalkan dunia ketentaraan. Apalagi dia diangkat menjadi ajudan istimewa Ratu Belanda Wilhelmina.

Kemudian Sultan Hamid menjadi Ketua Bijeenkomst voor Federaal Overleg (BFO). Forum negara-negara federal di Indonesia. Banyak pihak yang menganggap BFO adalah boneka Belanda, walau pendapat ini tak selamanya benar.

Saat Republik Indonesia Serikat (RIS) terbentuk, Hamid diangkat Soekarno untuk menjadi menteri negara. Tugasnya menyediakan gedung dan menciptakan lambang negara.

Hamid menyerahkan rancangannya. Wujud seorang manusia yang berkepala Garuda dan menggenggam perisai Pancasila. Itulah desain awal Pancasila. Soekarno kemudian memberikan beberapa usul, manusia Garuda diubah sepenuhnya menjadi burung garuda. Tapi saat itu burung garuda masih ‘gundul’ dan tidak berjambul.

Presiden Soekarno kemudian memperkenalkan untuk pertama kalinya lambang negara itu kepada khalayak umum di Hotel Des Indes Jakarta pada 15 Februari 1950.

Soekarno terus memperbaiki bentuk Garuda Pancasila. Pada tanggal 20 Maret 1950 Soekarnomemerintahkan pelukis istana, Dullah, melukis kembali rancangan tersebut. Beberapa yang diperbaiki antara lain penambahan jambul pada kepala Garuda Pancasila. Selain itu mengubah posisi cakar kaki yang mencengkram pita dari semula di belakang pita menjadi di depan pita.

Banyak yang menduga Soekarno menambahkan jambul karena kepala Garuda gundul dianggap terlalu mirip dengan Bald Eagle, Lambang Amerika Serikat.

Karir politik Hamid sendiri berakhir tak lama berselang. Dia bersekutu dengan Westerling untuk menyerang sidang kabinet di Pejambon. Hamid memerintahkan Westerling membunuh menteri pertahanan Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX , Kepala Staf Angkatan Perang Kolonel TB Simatupang dan Sekjen Kementerian Pertahanan Ali Budiarjo.

Percobaan pembunuhan itu gagal. Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX menangkap Sultan Hamid II. Dia diadili tahun 1953. Pembelaan dirinya ditolak. Pengadilan mengganjarnya dengan hukuman 10 tahun penjara atas kesalahan menggerakkan pemberontakan.

Nama Hamid pun dikenal sebagai pemberontak. Begitu yang tertulis di buku-buku sejarah. Jasanya menciptakan burung Garuda seolah dilupakan.

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Jangka Jayabaya sudah ramalkan bakal marak seks bebas

Selain memprediksi tentang pembagian zaman, Raja Jayabaya juga banyak memberikan perlambang dan sindiran yang bisa dibuktikan hingga sekarang. Menurut paranormal asal Kediri, Jawa Timur, Ki Tuwu, kemahiran Prabu Jayabaya ini dia dapatkan dari Syaikh Syamsuddin Al-Wasil.

Beberapa sindiran tersebut antara lain- Mbesuk yen ana kereta mlaku tanpa jaran, tanah Jawa kalungan wesi, prahu mlaku ing duwur awang-awang, kali ilang kedunge pasar ilang kumandange. Iku tanda yen
tekane jaman Joyoboyo wia cedak.”

“Kalau diterjemahkan – besok kalau sudah ada kereta berjalan tanpa kuda, tanah Jawa berkalung besi – artinya adanya kereta api, perahu berjalan di atas angkasa – artinya terciptanya pesawat terbang. Sungai
hilangnya kedungnya artinya kehilangan sumber air dan ini sudah terbukti, termasuk pasar hilang kumandangnya, dimana zaman dahulu pasar di pagi hari seperti suara lebah karena suara pedagang dan pembeli bisa terdengar di radius 5 km,” kata Ki Tuwu.

Perlambang yang lain adalah – akeh janji ora ditetepi, akeh wong nglanggar sumpahe dewe (artinya – banyak orang melanggar janji dan sumpah jabatan yang diartikan untuk para pejabat banyak
dilanggar, misalnya hakim berkhianat, pejabat yang korupsi dan lain sebagainya).

Akeh menungso mung ngutamakke duwit, lali kemenungsan, lali kebecikan lali sanak lali kadang (Banyak manusia yang hanya mengutamakan uang, lupa perikemanusiaan, lupa kebaikan dan lupa saudara,” Silakan dinalar sendiri kejadian-kejadian yang diramalkan Sang Prabu Jayabaya terbukti,” tukas Ki Tuwu.

Akeh wong nyambut gawe apik-apik pada krasa isin, luwih utama ngapusi. Wegah nyambut gawe kepengen kepenak, ngumbar nafsu angkara murka, nggedekake duraka (Banyak orang yang bekerja baik-baik merasa malu, lebih utama menipu. Banyak yang malas bekerja tapi pengen kaya (mencari pesugihan tumbal,red). Banyak orang mengumbar nafsu angkara murka dan memperbesar perbuatan durhaka).

“Ada lagi yang menarik ungkapan dalam Jangka Jayabaya yakni wong wadon ilang kawirangane wong lanang ilang prawirane. Artinya banyak perempuan hilang rasa malunya dan banyak laki-laki hilang kehormatannya. Saya tidak mau mendahului kehendak Allah namun ini sudah terbukti,” tambah Ki Tuwu.

Yang terakhir Ki Tuwu menukil dari Jangka Jayabaya yakni akeh udan salah mangsa, akeh prawan tua, akeh randa nglairake anak, akeh jabang bayi lahir nggoleki bapake. (Artinya: banyak hujan turun bukan pada musimnya, banyak perawan tua yang terlambat menikah karena terlalu memilih-milih pasangan dan juga mementingkan karier. Banyak janda melahirkan anak (akibat hubungan bebas) dan banyak yang lahir mencari siapa ayahnya,” Semoga ini bisa menjadi pelajaran bagi kita semua agar tetap eleng lan waspada,” tukas Ki Tuwu.

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6 Ramalan Jangka Jayabaya yang terbukti di Indonesia

Dalam perjalanan sejarah nusantara, nama Kediri tak bisa dipisahkan dari tokoh yang sangat terkenal dan melegenda, yakni Prabu Jayabaya yang bergelar Sri Maharaja Sri Warmmeswara Madhusudana Wataranindita Parakrama Digjayottunggadewanama Jayabhayalancana.

Jayabaya adalah tokoh yang melahirkan kitab ramalan yang hingga kini masih dianggap memiliki ‘tuah’ dan dipercaya masih berlaku, yakni Jangka Jayabaya. Salah satu ramalan Jayabaya yang paling kesohor adalah soal para pemimpin negeri ini. Ramalan Jayabaya menyebut bahwa pemimpin Indonesia yang berarti presiden adalah No-To-No-Go-Ro.

Banyak yang percaya dan meyakini dengan ramalan tersebut. Hal ini karena pemimpin di negeri ini sesuai dengan apa yang ditulis Jayabaya, yakni Notonogoro. Namun selain Notonogoro, Raja Kediri ini juga memiliki beberapa ramalan lainnya. Ramalan itu pun diyakini dan benar-benar terjadi.
Berikut beberapa ramalan Jangka Jayabaya yang sudah terbukti terjadi di Tanah Air:

1. Jawa akan terpecah-pecah

Dalam penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Prof Arysio Santos, Ph.D dalam bukunya Atlantis The Lost Continent Finally Found disebutkan atlantis adalah negeri tropis yang berlimpah mineral dan kekayaan hayati.

Namun segala kemewahan itu lenyap tersapu bencana maha besar yang memisahkan Jawa dari Sumatera, menenggelamkan lebih dari separuh wilayah nusantara. Kejadian itu diperkirakan pada 11.600 tahun yang lalu.

Apa yang diteliti oleh Arysio tersebut menurut ahli sejarah Kediri, Ki Tuwu sebenarnya sudah dijelaskan dalam Kitab Jangka Jayabaya.

“Itu masuk dalam periodesasi zaman besar kedua yang disebut dalam Jangka Jayabaya adalah Zaman Kalijaga artinya zaman tumbuhan. Di Jawa yang saat itu masih menyatu dengan pulau-pulau lain mengalami perubahan, yakni terpecah menjadi pulau-pulau kecil,” kata Ki Tuwu

2. Marak seks bebas

 Raja Jayabaya juga banyak memberikan perlambang dan sindiran yang bisa dibuktikan hingga sekarang, contohnya fenomena seks bebas yang hingga kini masih sering terjadi di masyarakat. Menurut paranormal asal Kediri, Jawa Timur, Ki Tuwu, kemahiran Prabu Jayabaya ini dia dapatkan dari Syaikh Syamsuddin Al-Wasil.

Dalam Kitab Jangka Jayabaya pernah diungkapkan bahwa nanti akan banyak kaum laki-laki dan perempuan yang akan kehilangan rasa hormat sampai rasa malu.

“Ada lagi yang menarik ungkapan dalam Jangka Jayabaya yakni wong wadon ilang kawirangane wong lanang ilang prawirane. Artinya banyak perempuan hilang rasa malunya dan banyak laki-laki hilang kehormatannya. Saya tidak mau mendahului kehendak Allah, namun ini sudah terbukti,” kata Ki Tuwu.

Yang terakhir Ki Tuwu menukil dari Jangka Jayabaya yakni akeh udan salah mangsa, akeh prawan tua, akeh randa nglairake anak, akeh jabang bayi lahir nggoleki bapake. Artinya banyak hujan turun bukan pada musimnya, banyak perawan tua yang terlambat menikah karena terlalu memilih-milih pasangan dan juga mementingkan karier. Banyak janda melahirkan anak (akibat hubungan bebas) dan banyak yang lahir mencari siapa ayahnya.

“Semoga ini bisa menjadi pelajaran bagi kita semua agar tetap eling lan waspada,” ujar Ki Tuwu.

3. Praktik korupsi di mana-mana

 Kitab Jangka Jayabaya memprediksi akan terjadi praktik korupsi di tanah air yang dulu masih bernama Nusantara. Hal tersebut bisa dilihat dari banyaknya pejabat yang haus akan kekuasaan dan melanggar sumpah-sumpah jabatannya.

Perlambang itu lain adalah, akeh janji ora ditetepi, akeh wong nglanggar sumpahe dewe (artinya – banyak orang melanggar janji dan sumpah jabatan yang diartikan untuk para pejabat banyak dilanggar, misalnya hakim berkhianat, pejabat yang korupsi dan lain sebagainya).

Akeh menungso mung ngutamakke duwit, lali kemenungsan, lali kebecikan lali sanak lali kadang(Banyak manusia yang hanya mengutamakan uang, lupa perikemanusiaan, lupa kebaikan dan lupa saudara.

“Silakan dinalar sendiri, kejadian-kejadian yang diramalkan Sang Prabu Jayabaya terbukti,” kata Ki Tuwu.

4. Hilangnya pasar pagi dan munculnya pesawat terbang-kereta api

Menurut Ki Tuwu, dalam Kitab Jangka Jayabaya banyak mengeluarkan sindiran untuk kehidupan di masa depan seperti sekarang. Jayabaya bisa memprediksi akan munculpesawat terbang dan kereta api. Selain itu pasar rakyat yang biasanya ramai di pagi hari kini sudah tak bisa didengar lagi dalam radius 5 km.

Beberapa sindiran tersebut antara lain, Mbesuk yen ana kereta mlaku tanpa jaran, tanah Jawa kalungan wesi, prahu mlaku ing duwur awang-awang, kali ilang kedunge pasar ilang kumandange. Iku tanda yen tekane jaman Joyoboyo wis cedak.

“Kalau diterjemahkan – besok kalau sudah ada kereta berjalan tanpa kuda, tanah Jawa berkalung besi – artinya adanya kereta api, perahu berjalan di atas angkasa – artinya terciptanya pesawatterbang. Sungai hilang kedungnya artinya kehilangan sumber air dan ini sudah terbukti, termasuk pasar hilang kumandangnya, di mana zaman dahulu pasar di pagi hari seperti suara lebah karena suara pedagang dan pembeli bisa terdengar di radius 5 km,” kata Ki Tuwu.

5. Tren orang mencari pesugihan

Selain memprediksi munculnya teknologi pesawat terbang dan kereta api, dalam Kitab Jangka Jayabaya juga mengatakan akan maraknya fenomena orang-orang tergila-gila dengan pesugihan karena malas untuk bekerja mencari uang.

Perlambang tersebut mengatakan – Akeh wong nyambut gawe apik-apik pada krasa isin, luwih utama ngapusi. Wegah nyambut gawe kepengen kepenak, ngumbar nafsu angkara murka, nggedekake duraka (Banyak orang yang bekerja baik-baik merasa malu, lebih utama menipu. Banyak yang malas bekerja tapi pengen kaya (mencari pesugihan tumbal,red). Banyak orang mengumbar nafsu angkara murka dan memperbesar perbuatan durhaka).

6. Pulau Jawa sering terjadi banjir

 Ramalan ini benar-benar terjadi parah di pulau Jawa hingga kini. Raja Jayabaya sudah memprediksi sejak dulu bahwa pulau Jawa akan banyak digenangi banjir. Zaman itu disebut olehnya Zaman Kalatirto.

Zaman Kalatirto atau zaman air, di Jawa sering terjadi banjir karena Sang Hyang Raja Kano yang bertahta di Negara Purwocarito sering menata batu besar untuk membendung kali dan bengawan. Ini dihitung mulai tahun 301-400 tahun surya atau mulai tahun 310-412 tahun candra.

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