January 2012
15 posts
2 tags
Somehow, I find “Somewhere Over the...
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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‘Cause even the stars they burn
Some even...
“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to
the fact that each...”
– H. G. Wells
December 2011
13 posts
It was in my first retreat a few months ago when I...
“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you...”
– Ken Venturi
See, I ain’t wasting no more time
Gotta...
“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the...”
– Denis Waitley
Epilogue from Living in a Bipolar City
In recent years, she realizes that Manila is disorderly, quirky, perennially interesting−in short, bipolar. Middle and upper class societies live similar urban lifestyles in Manila in two ways. First, malls and theaters are the second sanctuaries of people after Sunday masses. Secondly, being on chaotic Manila streets is inescapable, where all forms of commute−jeepneys, calesas and sidecars,...
1 tag
“It’s a mysterious feeling, when you feel almost right away that you have...”
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“To make a choice among many options is often a perplexing task, especially when...”
3 tags
“How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon....”
– Dr. Seuss
“You are so young; you stand for beginnings. I would like to beg of you, dear...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via ruefle)
November 2011
7 posts
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only...”
– Audrey Hepburn
“We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces...”
– Cecelia Ahern (via inevitably)
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
October 2011
13 posts
“People don’t expect too much from literature. They just want to know...”
– Jonathan Ames
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl
“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t...”
– Toni Morrison
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“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts; we need...”
– Philip Pullman
“Perhaps to trust yourself means making decisions and standing up for them. Even...”
– Me
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from...”
– Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV)
In philosophy class today, we were talking about evil, concupiscence, heaven, and doing good works.
Our teacher asked us, “Is going through trials and challenges a requirement for us to go to heaven, and that the man who has suffered much deserves the invitation to...
September 2011
12 posts
