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Quotes by Filipino Authors
"Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value."
"The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done."
"If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?"
"When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it."
"The horizon changes but the sun does not."
"Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing."
"Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do."
"It's only awkward if it matters."
"How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention."
"If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me."
"Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together."
"Dear World,I exist.Deal with it."
"Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind."
"You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary."
"Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again."
"Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice."
"How strange it is beholding this,and, very confident,proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident."
"I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf."
"She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section."
"Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else."
"Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself."
"Writers don't forget the past, they turn it into raw material."
"There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about."
"There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it."
"If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room."
"How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?"
"If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat."
"There is more to hear in what is not said."
"True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism."
"You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre."
"When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming."
"Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them."
"I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break."
"There will always be one or two things bothering the person next to you. And if that person happens to be looking heavenward, it's because it helps us to remind ourselves that God is bigger than our problems."
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