Quotes by Filipino Authors - Page 7

You wanted to see the world. And yet, all I want is to see you.
Sade Andria Zabala
Every journey has its own traveler. Every dream has its own dreamer. We are all belonged to a specific journey and dream. Some people are currently looking for it, some people are just figuring it out, some people are still lost, and to some they have finally found it.
Diana Rose Morcilla
Singapore is what your city could become if everyone obeyed the rules, did their jobs diligently, and just shut up. When your city gets to be this paragon of efficiency and discipline, would you still want to live there? Singapore is a model city, which is terrific if you happen to be a model human.
Jessica Zafra
Why do people put off travel until retirement? What are they saving it for? I understand that people want to be financially secure first, and pay off pension plans, but why consign the most active years of your life to drudgery? Why would you sacrifice today's freedom for a future that will always remain uncertain, no matter how carefully you plan for it? I'm not saying that everyone sitting in an office right this minute should drop everything and take off for Central Europe. I'm saying that if you want to see the world, plan for it and do it as soon as possible. The experience will give you the inspiration and fortitude you need to survive being a grown up.
Jessica Zafra
I cannot write about Venice; I can only write about me, and the sleeping parts of myself that Venice has shocked into wakefulness.
Jessica Zafra
Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Give until it hurts.
Corazon Cojuangco Aquino
To be human is, primarily, to embrace that we are human with strengths and weaknesses, and that our humanity is preordained to seek the Truth, Good and Beauty as part of our humanity. To be human is to be an agent of peace, justice, and reconciliation in our community or society. To be human is to be heroic and generous in an unobtrusive way, free from any selfish motive, with no media to show the litany of our good deeds. To be human is to have time to listen to the story of a grieving soul, to give hope to the hopeless, to give love to the unloved.(Danny Castillones Sillada, A reason to be Human: Human Pathos and Compassion)
Danny Castillones Sillada
Go.” Granmare pointed at the door. “Let me work in peace.”Balthazar didn’t look back when he left.“Now, my dear,” the witch turned to her, “let me give you what that foolish boy paid for.”“He’s not foolish,” Arianne said. For giving a drop of his blood, the least she could do was defend the annoying oaf. “He’s going out of his way to help me, so if there’s anyone foolish here it’s me.”“My, my, my.” Granmare Baba gasped, spreading her hand at the center of her chest. “You have a mouth on you. I will so enjoy watching what happens to you when the time comes.”A chill went down Arianne’s back. She’d almost been afraid to ask, “What do you mean?”Granmare Baba only smiled her yellow toothy smile before she went about putting things together in a large cauldron that seemed to have magically appeared in the center of the round room.
Kate Evangelista
Magic is an honor, until it's a shackle.
Melissa de la Cruz
As a writer, I do not treat writing merely as a profession but more of as my "calling" and my way of life. In every waking hour and even in my deep sleep, creativity and imagination crawls through my inner core. Anyone can write but not everybody can capture that crystalline moment when magic unfolds and casts a spell on her readers." - Author/Poet Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo
Elizabeth E. Castillo
The concept of Time is but the span of our memory.
Marie Sabillo
Only with steadfast memories can we now be strong so as to undo the mistakes of the past, to begin anew and build from the rubble of their betrayal...
F. Sionil Jose'
You grieve at first. And then slowly, with the yawning of the years, the disappeared gets scraped from your memory, the way your flesh can be peeled from your limbs. It's very harsh and extremely painful. But it gets done, square inch-by-square inch. Until, the skin that is your memory gets completely scarred and numbed. You live. The disappeared is detached from the dermis of remembering. And that is what is known as moving on.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I'm sure that you didn't think I would notice,but we memorize the strangest things in a personwhen we're in love with them.
Danabelle Gutierrez
...the mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness.
F. Sionil Jose'
When I look at myself in the mirror, I wonder where everything has gone. Even the things I used to remember with so much clarity now seem dimmer. What happens to memory when it vanishes? What happens to events when everyone who remembers them ceases to remember?
Dean Francis Alfar
The graveyard is not the final resting place of our dear departed but an ephemeral repository of their remains. The real graveyard, however, is somewhere deep in our heart, where we can always visit them at any time of the day, talk about some unforgettable summers, or cry in solitude as if they were always there for us to stay. And should our twilight come, when we can no longer see the light of the day, some people dear to us will build a graveyard in their hearts. They will let us stay for a while or perhaps longer, as long as they continue to remember, but it does not matter anymore. What is comforting to know, no matter how tragic or tranquil our death may be, somewhere somehow someone will always build a sublime place for us to stay. (Danny Castillones Sillada, The Graveyard In Our Heart)
Danny Castillones Sillada
The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Memory is this, not the target dead on centerbut the hurt unwept.
Carlos A. Angeles
Dealing with Dillan being a jerk can mess up any saint on a good day. And you know I’m no saint.
Kate Evangelista
Dillan didn’t just kiss. He slow danced. We moved in sync. I wanted to lose myself in him. In his touch. Right then the world seemed like such a perfect place.
Kate Evangelista
He opened the door for me with an impassive expression. Oh, but he couldn’t fool me. I knew very well that he gloated inside. He had the right to. I’d be gloating aloud if I were him. I slid into the plush black leather seat and ran my hands over every surface I could touch after buckling my seatbelt. Awe, like a slow burning fuse, spread all over my body. My fingertips sizzled. It was one thing to hear Gramps talk and completely another to actually sit inside the fantasy.“Should I give you two some time alone?”
“What?”
His smile gave me unexpected quivers. “Stop molesting my car.
Kate Evangelista
You’re a people pleaser, aren’t you? You’re the type that can’t stand someone not liking you and showing it.” Raising his head, he laughed openly now.“That’s just...” I wanted to take a book from the shelf beside me and throw it at him. “I don’t even have a word—”“Then I suggest you read a little more so you can find the word you’re looking for.” He hid his chuckle behind a fist.
Kate Evangelista
We soon fall asleep in each other’s arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.
Fernando Lachica
Fly beyond infinities.
Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Dream!
Joe Mari Fadrigalan
A dream may encourage us, but at the end of the day, it's just a dream. We should also learn how to make a move.
Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Sometimes I wish I had not woken up from a beautiful dream, and continued dreaming within sleep upon sleep until I become a dream itself. Because sometimes waking up is more frightening than a nightmare.
Danny Castillones Sillada
Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.
Honeylyn Reambonanza
Strive for balance in your life. You are the heart and soul of your business so take care of yourself.
Joey A. Concepcion
Businesses need to be more alert. Sometimes the problem is not the customer service, it is the product.
Janna Cachola
He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.
Eric Gamalinda
If you are looking for a friend that will never change, go to the shelves, you'll find it there. It will never change and will stay the same today and forever.
Wency June Z. Libot
Man came first through evolution. God came second through man's imagination.
Joey Lawsin
Life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short, and fragile shot glass. We shouldn't waste a single drop.
Samantha Sotto
Life is not a circle. It is a straight line that has ups and downs.
Joey Lawsin
Life is a consequence of our moral choices.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
The simple the process is, the smarter the system becomes.
Joey Lawsin
It's sad how people change from the best to the beast.
Geneva Caballero Uy
I said I love youwhen what I meant to say was"I’m afraid of being alone."I said I need youwhen what I meant to say was"I need to learn how to love myself.
Sade Andria Zabala
There are places I cannot visit. Places of unbearable sadness, grief, mourning. They say places are made by people. I say places are defined by the memories they conjure—the lunge of a curse, a shared and shattered history, a loved one drowned and lost in the ocean of forgetting.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than aboutcomforting the people they leave behind.
Rin Chupeco
Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried in grief if that is what it takes to restore the imbalance you have wrought unto the world.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
At night, with only the bedside lamp on, I would pretend to sleep and listened to Dad’s muffled crying in the semi-darkness, wishing that I could cry like him, that I could bring Stevan back from the dead by the strength of my tears. But they were regular tears carving the same slicing-hot trails down my cheeks, and in the end, I could not summon a distinct kind of grief for Stevan. Just the same grief that has gripped mankind for centuries, which time would inevitably ebb into a notch in one’s skin or a small limp in the way one walks or a bottled memory that would only resurface some nights. And soon, you’d struggle to remember how that person talked or how that person used to occupy a customized space in your life. And you don’t want to forget, but you don’t want to remember either, and there seemed to be no place where you could just exist.
V.J. Campilan
Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.
F. Sionil Jose'
...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both.
Miguel Syjuco
Forgive other people before you ask for forgiveness… As you forgive, you will be forgiven.
Choa Kok Sui
I want to do Sunday brunch. I want to make love when it’s raining. I want to kiss when I wake up. I want to hold hands and never, ever, ever, let go.I want to do all of these.I want to do all of these with you.
Sanny Oropel
But... is sex the only way to know your preference? I thought it's more about who you fall in love with?
Fritz Diantan
Whether you're the best lawyer...Or the greatest philosopher...There will alway be at least two people that you can never win any argument with...Your child...And your wife...So don't argue with them...Just love them...
Nelson M. Lubao
When people say they don't want to get into a relationship, it should never be taken into face value because it is never really the whole truth. It is usually a vast collection of issues and fears and complications, forced to conceal one tiny hope lurking underneath it all: that someday, somebody will come along to discover, accept and understand and strengthen that feeble hope.
Marla Miniano
I chose the light amidst the lurking darkness. I chose calmness and stillness among a crowd bathing in chaos. I chose happiness over screaming negativity around and I chose to be ME over the temptation of being like somebody else.
Elizabeth E. Castillo
Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.
Melissa de la Cruz
It's not our mission to change or direct another person's path. There is no wrong way or right way. We each have our own life journey and our mission is to just become a LIGHT that enlightens other people's pathways.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
It's true. The storms won't last forever. The nasty weather will never last. There is always that light at the end of the tunnel.
Diana Rose Morcilla
You cannot let the darkness overcome the light.
Melissa de la Cruz
Goodness works in mysterious ways. Even in the deepest dark, you’ll find a light to shine your way through.
Melissa de la Cruz
Spirituality is a way of life. it is not just doing meditation.
Choa Kok Sui
The Light is always there. How much light comes to you depends on you.
Choa Kok Sui