Quotes by Filipino Authors - Page 8

Growing old is to be set free. It is a slow and long-simmering process that extracts you from what you are really made of. But it requires acceptance. You cannot put a flailing chicken in a boiling pot. You must accept the heat and the pain with serenity so that the full flavors of your life maybe released.
Samantha Sotto
And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!
A.A. Patawaran
Life’s not a one-shot special. It’s a friggin’ on-going series. Live it!
Arnold Arre
I am starting to acceptthat you never loved me.And it's sadbecause I don't think you seehow beautiful you are to me.Your face was the lightthat chased away the shadows,every nightmare, every fear.But you burned out and nowI'm learning to be afraidof the dark once again.
Sade Andria Zabala
How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions
Miguel Syjuco
Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.
A.A. Patawaran
Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough to speak the truth; that it is bravery enough. Every mountain leveled to the ground, every forest burned, every man, woman, and child who lost their shanties to arsonist fires were defended to the heavens—with words.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.
Cirilo F. Bautista
In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest— in the end.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I never thought I'd fall madly in love with literature.
Wency June Libot
You are...the embodimentof immediate good karma.The equalizer between bottomfeeders and the sanctimoniouscogs in the system.
G.A.P. Gutierrez
Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.
F. Sionil Jose'
Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.
Miguel Syjuco
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
F. Sionil Jose'
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
José Rizal
He was the old breed of Filipino, almost extinct, who required that he deserve what he received; who would feel guilt, not only shame or embarrassment; who accounted for each day in the office and observed public trust as if it were a word of God. But even God was nowhere. The new theology proclaimed him dead. Long live Man! Love live Me!
Linda Ty-Casper
I can't change the past, but that doesn't mean I can't learn from it. I can't the future, but that doesn't mean I can't be ready for it.
Kenneth de Guzman
Fathers are the future's keepers, as it was in the beginning when the only begotten Son became Father to Man and the Great Circle of Father to Son; Son to Father began.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.
Melissa de la Cruz
There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve our business skills, our techniques in manufacturing goods, the management of a home. That is what most of you will be doing anyway. We read these because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them, in their problems. And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves…
F. Sionil Jose'
A true great artist at heart never ceases to create, continuously amazes and keeps sharing his gift despite barriers, judgement, fears and dreaded myths. If you stopped being creative out of fear or loss of self-esteem or pride, you were never an artist first and foremost for you have ran away from your true calling." - Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
Poetry lets me pour out my various emotions even the suppressed ones we didn't know exist inside us' til the moment you start jotting down what you're feeling. It's more than an escape into the unknown, a refuge for your creativity and sometimes wild imagination not all ordinary, ungifted people like us understand." -Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
... misfortune and creativity go together.
Cirilo F. Bautista
Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it.
Arlene J. Chai
Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together.
Melissa de la Cruz
I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
For those who seem to have difficulty moving forward:"Sometimes Destiny is calling but you refuse to give in to the signs because of past hurts and baggages. Sometimes the love you are searching for all this time is just right in front of you but you remain to be blind because of fear. Because of always thinking that things may not work out right instead of telling yourself that you should move forward and get happy again.Why not think instead of how beautiful something could turn out to be if you take that chance and go for it than merely let the chance pass you by again and live a life of "what ifs" along the way?You cannot label each special person you meet in this life as "the One Who Got Away". Move forward, dear one, you just don't know how special you are in someone's eyes." -Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.
Nick Joaquín
Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.
F. Sionil Jose'
The wealthiest people in the world are those who can give the most value to the most number of people.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
Work with what you have. Look good, feel good.
Claire Betita de Guzman
There's nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you're going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect glory. What's wrong with liking yourself the way you are?
Jessica Zafra
It is not in my nature to be interested in the living.But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.
Rin Chupeco
One should remember that where nobody flees, there is no pursuer: that where there are no little fish, there can be no big ones. Why does the girl not require her lover a noble and honoured name, a manly heart to protect her weakness, and a resolute spirit which will not be satisfied with engendering slaves? Let her discard all fear, behave nobly and yield not her youth to the weak and faint-hearted.
José Rizal
....let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of mind and loftiness of purpose, which enliven and raise the feeble and the timid and ward off all vain thoughts. Let her be the pride of her country and let her command respect.
José Rizal
I once stood on a road and found I had no friends. And I was glad. Better to have no friends than to have people claim they were your friends when they were not. It is a source of strength to come to terms with your right to be alone.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your mind be known, heard and seen. Your thoughts are real as it could be.
Diana Rose Morcilla
In terms of monetary behavior, there are two types of people in this Earth: those who save and those who spend.
Anna Agoncillo
Most people think that if you do not love yourself fully, no one else will. That is not true. People are perfectly capable of giving love even if they feel less confident about themselves.
Anna Agoncillo
People are perfectly capable of giving love even if they feel less confident about themselves.
Anna Agoncillo
I see love as a force of nature. No matter how much you want to, you cannot control or demand love. No one can. It cannot be bought, bartered, or sold. It is priceless.
Anna Agoncillo
Although we look at ourselves as One, in the real world we always experience ourselves as TWO.
Joey Lawsin
I’ve always wondered why women are expected to deny their true age. Why? To be a woman of 50 and up is a badge of triumph—a hard-earned certificate that says you survived the shallowness, the violence, the meanness, and the caprice of a male-dominated society without losing your mind!
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
And that is the problem with a society that doesn't read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation's indifference.
Lourd de Veyra
Life is like our heart, the people are the nerve's and society is the brain
Romeo Jr Baguyo
Show me a filthy public restroom and I’ll show you a society where discipline and order have broken down.
Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra
Do not settle for people who do not appreciate you, who do not know how lucky they are. Remember it is a privilege to be loved by you or even just to be touched by you. And the warmth of another body does not define your worth.
Sade Andria Zabala
Rebecca woke up with her knees hurting and her fingers ice-cold, and the specifics of her life returned to her as the dream disappeared: weekend, hotel room, Baguio, memory, memory, memory.
Eliza Victoria
Real is overratedNo way in my life is that the gistI'd be everything I am notIf I were a fictionist
A.A. Patawaran
I transform fiction into memory.
Miguel Syjuco
Even with my deepest soul I knew too well that all of these were just a stairs to heaven.
Fernando Lachica
Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.
Melissa de la Cruz
If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.
Nick Joaquín
People with looks are lovely. People with brains are witty. People with cash are wealthy. But people with God are truly happy.
Joe Mari Fadrigalan
I used to arch my back for boys who couldn’t even remember the color of my bedsheets.But you, however, made me turnover the arch on my mouth.
Sade Andria Zabala
The thought of youbeing with someone else isliterally killing me.And you couldn’t care less. BecauseI am just one of the writhing bodiesthat ruined your bed sheets.
Sade Andria Zabala
Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Romance is a veiled reality, while marriage is the unveiling of reality!
Dr. Vivencio Ballano
Reality is reality when it exists inside and outside the mind.
Joey Lawsin