Kata Bijak English Tentang Doa

Bila kita sedikit merenung, maka kita akan menemukan betapa banyaknya kecenderungan di antara kita sebagai warga dunia. Salah satunya ialah dari kata bijak. Ada kecenderungan cara pandang ketika kata bijak itu disandingkan. Ambil contoh kata bijak English , bahasa Indonesia, dan bahasa Jawa.

Ternyata setelah dianalisis, pengalaman hayati dan budaya dapat menjadi alat mempertemukan kecenderungan itu. Kita memiliki cara pandang nan sama terhadap beberapa masalah atau tantangan nan kita hadapi. Cuma cara mengutarakannya saja nan berbeda.

Kata bijak nan berbentuk peribahasa dapat dijadikan tolok ukur betapa kita benar-benar hayati di bawah matahari nan sama. Selain sebagai bentuk pengayaan bahasa dan budaya (Collie and Slater: 1987:3-6), kata bijak itupun dapat menjadi alat buat bahan pedagogi di kelas (Duppenthale, 1989).

Lewat pedagogi di kelas, kata bijak tersebut bisa menjadi bahan renungan bagi generasi muda. Dengan demikian mereka akan memahami budaya internasional dan nantinya dapat lebih menghargai orang lain (Britten and Fahsi in S. L. McKay, 2004).

Ada begitu banyak kata bijak English, bahasa Indonesia, dan bahasa Jawa nan memiliki makna nan sama. Coba bandingkan dan renungkan kata-kata bijak dari ketiga bahasa tersebut.

1. An eye is for an eye.
Darah dibalas darah.
Utang getih, bayar getih.

2. No pain, no gain.
Tiada keberhasilan tanpa perjuangan.
Jer basuki mawa bea.

3. A burden shared is a half burden.
Berat sama dipikul, ringan sama dijinjing.
Sak iyeg sak eko proyo.

4. Union is strength.
Manunggal kita teguh, bercerai kita runtuh.
Rukun agawe santosa, crah agawe bubrah.

5. Look before you leap.
Berpikir sebelum bertindak.
Pupur sak durunge benjut.

6. It’s no use crying over spilt milk.
Nasi sudah menjadi bubur.
Beras wutah arang bali menyang takere.

7. It never rains but it pours.
Sudah jatuh ketimpa tangga.
Endhas pethak ketiban empyak.

8. Bad news travels fast.
Bagai jamur di musim penghujan.
Tonggak jeda mrajak, tunggak jati mati.

9. Prevention is better than cure.
Sedia payung sebelum hujan.
Sedio payung sak durunge udan.

10. Empty vessels make the most noise.
Tong kosong nyaring bunyinya.
Kenes ora nethes.

11. As you sow, so shall you reap.
Siapa menabur angin, akan menuai badai.
Sapa nandur bakal ngundhuh.

12. It is the mouth that cuts the throat.
Mulutmu, harimaumu.
Ajining diri ono ning lathi.

Ambil contoh no. 6. Kata bijak English menggunakan susu sebagai metaforanya sedangkan bahasa Indonesia dan bahasa Jawa menggunakan beras. Hal ini tak terlepas dari makanan pokok kita. Tapi coba perhatikan no. 12. Ketiga bahasa menggunakan mulut sebagai bentuk metaforanya. Samakan? Kita memang sama. Tapi cara kita mengekspresikannya saja nan agak berbeda. Jadi kita manunggal aja ya? No more war deh.

Membaca kata bijak dapat menyejukkan hati, terutama bila kata-kata bijak itu ditulis dalam rangkaian kata nan latif dan penuh makna. Seperti nan dapat kita lihat dari kumpulan kata bijak English berikut ini.

Smile is the shortest distance between two people.
Senyum ialah jeda nan terdekat antara dua manusia .

Real power does not hit hard , but straight to the point.
Kekuatan nan sesungguhnya tak memukul dengan keras , tetapi tepat sasaran

You have to endure caterpillars if you want to see butterflies. (Antoine De Saint)
Anda harus tahan terhadap ulat jika ingin bisa melihat kupu-kupu. (Antoine De Saint)

The danger of small mistakes is that those mistakes are not always small.
Bahayanya kesalahan-kesalahan kecil ialah bahwa kesalahan-kesalahan itu tak selalu kecil. Kesalahan kecil dapat mengakibatkan kesalahan nan lebih besar. Bersamaan dengan kesalahan itu, persoalannya dapat menjadi besar pula. Maka kesalahan kecil pun harus segera dibetulkan.

To be silent is the biggest art in a conversation.
Sikap diam ialah seni nan terhebat dalam suatu pembicaraan.

The worst in the business world is the situation of no decision. (Napoleon).
Yang terparah dalam global usaha ialah keadaan tak ada keputusan. (Napoleon).

Dig a well before you become thirsty.
Galilah sumur sebelum Anda merasa haus.

Good manners consist of small sacrifices.
Sopan – santun nan baik nan terdiri dari pengorbanan –pengorbanan kecil.

Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. (Charles Francis Adams II).

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. (Mario Andretti).

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. (Charles Kendall Adams)

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us. (George Allen)

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. (Howard Cosell)

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination?they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building. (Robert Collier)

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?s where you will find success. (Thomas J. Watson)

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. (Henry Ward Beecher)

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. (Richard J. Needham)

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing. (Saint Francis of Assisi)

"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language. (P.J. Wingate)

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. (Soren Kierkegaard)

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. (Guy H. King)

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. (Philip Melanchthen)

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. (Satchel Paige, 1974)

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him. (William McGill)

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. (Samuel M. Shoemaker)

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. (Author Unknown)

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. (Author Unknown)

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. (Frederick Douglass)

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. (Austin O'Malley)

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. (Author Unknown)