Quotes by Filipino Authors - Page 4

It is in the little moments that we live the longest. Everything else is existence.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Stop your doubting, my love. I knew you would find me. ~Jack
Melissa de la Cruz
One of the greatest gifts of life is having a chance to live as long as there are people on earth.
Kenneth de Guzman
What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination.
Joey Lawsin
We cross paths with certain people in our tangled lives for a reason. It's not by chance, not an accident but it's on a purpose. You were made to be part of someone's life for it was written long before you were born."- Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
I think you can fall in love many times, and it depends on what stage you are in your life. Your soulmate requirements or deal-breakers change with you.
Claire Betita de Guzman
He had a face made for magazine covers. Could someone say GQ model? That razor sharp jaw and those angular features caught the light just right. If she’d had a camera she wouldn’t mind snapping a few pictures. And those lips…she stopped. She didn’t know him, and something told her she shouldn’t get to know him.
Kate Evangelista
Protect that girl, Balthazar. She is an innocent in all of this.”“Why does she want Nikolas to gain his humanity?”“She believes they are in love.”The absurdity of D’s words hit Balthazar square in the gut. He would have doubled over if he didn’t find the reason pathetic. Thankfully, he managed to keep the laughter in his head.“Love? Nikolas?
Kate Evangelista
When your pain gets tough, your game needs to get rough.
Janna Cachola
I was shocked at the revelation of her vaulting ambition, her greed. I should have loathed her or, knowing what kind of a person she was, I should have realized the futility of any personal attachment, the impossibility of its maturing into something warm, human enduring. By then, I had known a bit of the prostitute's psychology, the ruthlessness which marked her relationship with men,but I ignored these.
F. Sionil Jose'
Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.
Geraldine Solon
You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.
Geraldine Solon
When dreams are not clear, the results are often as blurred. You won't be able to arrive at your desired destination if you are not certain of where you're going. You have to be able to see clearly and perfectly.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
Anyone can write but not everyone can crystallize that perfect moment which can make a heart skip a beat and dig deep into one's soul." - Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo' s Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
If something bad happened just do this 3 things.First inhale second exhale and third accept that it happened.
Kenneth de Guzman
Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top....(as in don't try hard when people are before you but be glad... instead of working up your energy for the highest honor)
Florie Jo Alicer
Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child
Miguel Syjuco
No story is complete until it is written.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
You have a say. You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.
Janna Cachola
Don't go the distance trying to fit in the crowd and be accepted by others. Accept and respect yourself first. Loving thyself also goes with this."-Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.
Ninotchka Rosca
Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?
Ambeth R. Ocampo
I believe that the ‘love of your life’ is just a person that you chose. You choose them because you believe that they’re it.
Dawn Lanuza
There are just two directions in life, the one which is safe but boring, and the other which is delicate but exciting. Now ask yourself, which path will you go?
Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Happiness is a choice, because being so much blessed doesn't make you happy, contentment does.
Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Happiness is a choice. Don’t let the outside world choose it for you.
Frederick Espiritu
Youth must triumph... now. Afterwards, it will be life.
Jose Garcia Villa
Beauty and youth. What a dazzling combination. To bewilder and to sparkle. Days filled with sunshine. And men worshiping at her feet. Love was a game she played with wantonness and mischief.-Fabulous
Jofelyn Martinez Khapra
Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.
Miguel Syjuco
Weren’t all ‘young’ people the same? Disillusioned, world-weary, bored out of their minds? The constant need for adventure, that constant need to ridicule suburban life and jobs that keep you desk bound and microwavable food and comfort.Everything was fake and every day had to be a day closer to the genuine. They were always single, these ‘young’ people, childless, unattached, maybe rich. Selfish. He remembered being 'young’ and being horribly, horribly selfish. How infinite he felt. Now he found comfort in the predictability of the train. But he didn’t miss his old self. Even then he knew he was lost.
Eliza Victoria
That awkward moment when you realize someone was actually home the whole time you were singing on the tops of your lungs.
Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
But when I think of us,in the quiet when I'm on my own,I think of Beauty and the Beast.I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.
Danabelle Gutierrez
Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament to how her grandmother made love to hurricane and calmed the storm.
Danabelle Gutierrez
And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other.
Danabelle Gutierrez
When he asks you whyyou chose alone all these years.Tell him that it’s becauseyou love with all claws and bared teeth.Apologize for the scratchesthat you will leave on his skin;ask forgiveness for the bite marks.Tell him you never ever mean to love so hard, but you do.
Danabelle Gutierrez
He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.
Danabelle Gutierrez
Cultivate the distance. Nurture the silence. Let it grow until your fragile heart is as far and inaccessible as his marbled emotions. Don't talk. Don't move. Sit still. If he shows up, lie. Believe your own excuses.And if he tries to charm his way back in, punch him in the face.
Danabelle Gutierrez
Don't be afraid of Pain. Pain only comes down to a certain point... beyond that, it can't reach you and the love you have inside.
Eeva Lancaster
Does my soul sufferWhen my body breaks downWhen I feel mortalWhen my body is weakDoes the soul rejoiceThe end is near
A.A. Patawaran
No music in the raindropsNo clouds with silver liningTorrents of sorrowsHorror in streams
A.A. Patawaran
I exaggerateThere is a lie in my truthLook! My soul is blue
A.A. Patawaran
I crouch in cornersThe infection is widespreadLove epidemic
A.A. Patawaran
But the sun will rise the day after tomorrowA millennium without us silences our last echoTo tiny fragments even our plastics are reducedIn Eden Reincarnate all life but ours is renewed
A.A. Patawaran
When life gets rough,don't panic! Just let it be! Life is leading you to still waters!
Dr. Vivencio Ballano
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.
Miguel Syjuco
The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.
Arlene J. Chai
...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...
Nick Joaquín
...and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...
Nick Joaquín
The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Life is both beautiful and painful. In whatever situation we find ourselves in, no matter how unfortunate it may seem, there is always something to be thankful for – if we only choose to see it.
Frederick Espiritu
I have come to realize that truly rich people are rich not because they are frugal or they chose to be frugal, but because they are so grateful, contented and full of self-worth that they don't have to prove anything to anyone with material possessions. This way, they appear frugal.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.
Melissa de la Cruz
By being high, you become low and by being low, you become high. By being humble, you become high.
Choa Kok Sui
I should have learned my lesson from Greek myths, really. It so doesn't pay to fall in love with a god. It’s either you get transformed – flower, bull, you name it, the gods can be that petty – or you just get…crushed.
Marian Tee
Life is chemistry, not biology.
Joey Lawsin
Writers, when they’re good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they leave the earth, like having the windows shut for good. Where will the world be without good writers?
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to value justice above everything--to do what is right not because someone ordains it, but because the heart which is the seat of truth decrees it so.
F. Sionil Jose'
Justice can only be delivered by someone who doesn't care to about how much he's paid, or where he is in the chain of command. Someone who's ego won't be inflated by grandeur or power. Someone who won't be influenced by this guy's being the CEO of this or his being the Mayor of that. And let's face it: that someone couldn't be human.
Eliza Victoria
Life's true value and meaning can only be known if we speak for the truth, not for our advocacy, but for the truth itself.
Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
‎Man is never his emotions and that all feelings are ephemeral- that no one is truly genuinely ecstatic, sad, angry or passionately in love forever, which means emotions are never to be trusted.
Lourd de Veyra