Quotes by Filipino Authors - Page 3

The wealthiest people in the world are those who can give the most value to the most number of people.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE WHILE LIES SHALL PUT YOU IN JAIL
Nelson M. Lubao
When you're in the city, trapped among the cubic structures, it's easy to forget that you're connected to the earth, because you're so separated from it by layers and layers of protection - the soles of your shoes, sandals, or slippers, sheets of asphalt, concrete, linoleum tiling.
Vicente García Groyon
Dinner that night is a feast of flavor. To celebrate the successful exorcism, Kagura has cooked several more dishes than the shrine's usual, simple fare- fragrant onigiri, balls of rice soaked in green tea, with umeboshi- salty and pickled plums- as filling. There is eggplant simmered in clear soup, green beans in sesame sause, and burdock in sweet-and-sour dressing. The mood is festive.
Rin Chupeco
Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.
Sade Andria Zabala
Let your passion serve as your energy source to keep you going. I can attest that you will be happier, healthier, and more successful at it.
Anna Agoncillo
Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
CENTER-OF-THE-UNIVERSE, that was me entering the workplace. And I woke up one day soon after that, struggling at the bottom of a vast ocean. But I needed that. Humbling experiences are part of growing - they help shape us and mold our character. Welcome to life.
Yay Padua-Olmedo
To many, eternal love lasts forever. But for me, eternal love is not about duration. It is about a divine something which puts this life into something way beyond what is physical, what is timed, and what is measured.”Sophia to Michael
Teresa May B. Bandiola
Life is chemistry, not biology.
Joey Lawsin
Your thoughts, your words are reflections of who you truly are and who you could become. Be careful what you think of and of what you speak of for these can manifest in your life. So why not throw away all those negativity and just remain open to positivity?" - Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
It's never about time. It only takes one moment.
Jay E. Tria
It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.
Fernando Lachica
Every creature is a living instruction that runs the algorithm of nature.
Joey Lawsin
The first summer that we spent together,we did so many obscene things to each other, thatby the end of it, the trees blushed a shy shade of scarlet,leaves falling to the ground, scandalized by our acts.
Danabelle Gutierrez
Don’t measure how far still you’ve got to go, but how far you’ve already gone to get to the point where you are now.
Frederick Espiritu
Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
Miguel Syjuco
We soon fall asleep in each other’s arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.
Fernando Lachica
If you practice hard, you can win every battle.
Manny Pacquiao
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
He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.
Danabelle Gutierrez
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
To me you were home, to you I was just a vacation.
Sade Andria Zabala
No individual existence can be traced further than the moment of conception, which determined that what was to be born would be this person and no other. The person may change from baby to child, and from boy to man, but through all these changes he will remain this person and cannot be another, because all possibilities to the contrary that may have existed before the moment of conception ended forever with the moment of conception.
Nick Joaquín
Yesterday was just the tip of the iceberg of awesomeness. Things will get better. Keep smiling, don't give up just yet. Perseverance has an amazing gift for you, just wait you see.
Janna Cachola
Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I exaggerateThere is a lie in my truthLook! My soul is blue
A.A. Patawaran
As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.
Melissa de la Cruz
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
But in the end of our love story,We are on the same page.
Alon Calinao Dy
Let your passion serve as your energy source to keep you going.
Anna Agoncillo
Now let's talk about dreams. Yes. Dreams. I believe that dreams are one of the best thing in the world. It's so powerful. Because of people dreaming; things are being done and things are being made. Things happen. Dreams are being manifested to beautiful things. Dreams can make people happy, but sad as well (if they don't happen). Well let me tell you, I believe dreams come true because one person decided it so.
Diana Rose Morcilla
I can't remember the poemThat pierced through my heartIt was the saddest I heardOf all truths ever spokenIt left a scar in meA wound that doesn't healBut the words are forgottenSo is a big part of me
A.A. Patawaran
I am a commuter, not between the city and the village, although I do this frequently; not between the inane idealism of the classroom and the stifling reality beyond it, which I must do for survival and self-respect. I am a commuter between what I am now and what I was and would like to be and it is this commuting at lightning speed, at the oddest hours, that has done havoc to me.
F. Sionil Jose'
The heart is a repository of emotions--real, imagined, and invented, owned and borrowed, past, present, future--and there in your chest, operating at an average of 80 beats per minute at rest, is a heart that has stories to tell.
A.A. Patawaran
We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I thought you were good. That some part of you was good.”In a blink of an eye, Balthazar stood right in front of her. Arianne yelped. He took her wrist and brought the tip of the knife to the center of his chest. With his other hand, he tilted her chin up so she could look into the white center of his black irises. His silver hair rained over his forehead, covering the crease that marred its usual smoothness.“You think I’m the good guy?” he whispered. She continued trembling, worse now. He leaned down until his lips touched her ear. “I’m not.
Kate Evangelista
Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.
José Rizal