"A parent's love is steadfast in the face of seemingly insurmountable impediments. Though we try to do everything we can to help our children, nothing compares with making them believe in their own capacities and telling them to "just keep swimming." ~Ethel Pineda
"An organism behaves according to its milieu. Because it knows that is the way to survival." ~Ethel Pineda, April 16, 2020
"Cousins are the sisters the universe gives you through another mother." ~Ethel Pineda
"Hate stems from fear." ~Ethel Pineda
"How can you not have hope that things will be better?" ~Ethel Pineda, 22 August 2017
"I hope you will find your voice. May you gather the courage to seek your place under the sun, and create your own narrative. Own your life." ~Ethel Pineda, 1 January 2017
"If we will seriously take on the task of educating Filipinos on reproductive health, and providing them the means this will not be a viable undertaking. The government must be solidly secular and rational." ~Ethel Pineda
"In Medicine, you give more weight to evidence based information than testimonials. Evidence rather than consensus. The same should be true anywhere." ~Ethel Pineda
"It is better to focus on what we will preserve and save (lives) than what we are going to lose (material things). We will suffer, yes. … But we can rebuild." ~Ethel Pineda (on covid19 should not break our spirit)
"It's flowering, bathed by moonlight, beneath the champaca tree. Sampaguita is blooming." ~Ethel Pineda
"It is not an easy task. The president needs us. The best way we can help is when we are united, arms linked. The bricks and mortar cannot separate from each other lest the walls collapse before the enemies.” ~Ethel Pineda
"Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing." ~Ethel Pineda
"No journey is too long and arduous if you really want to get to your destination." ~Ethel Pineda
"One cannot fully appreciate the taste of food by just contact with the tastebuds. Somehow, one has to swallow it to experience the pleasure. There must be a receptor somewhere in the pharynx that sends signals to the nucleus accumbens (pleasure center of the brain) that allows this to happen. // Next time you have a craving, try popping it in your mouth. Chew it, taste it, but don't swallow. Masarap Di ba? Did that give you a fix?" ~Ethel Pineda, 29 April 2018
"People hooked on (ABSCBN) TV shows. Time to engage in other activities that will also feed your mind and improve relationships. Read. Play and talk with your family." ~Ethel Pineda, May 8, 2020
"Pouring concrete where grass would do is not my idea of progress." ~Ethel Pineda
"Remember, the wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine." ~Ethel Pineda
Social graces defined:
"Social graces," good manners and right conduct do not work as veneers. They go hand in hand with genuine concern for people."Some people have wisdom beyond their years. Others, years beyond their wisdom. We know many." ~Ethel Pineda
Social grace is not ......, sugar-coating words that ingratiate. It is knowing what is right, and acting on it without calling attention to one's self.
Social grace is knowing one's proper place. Not coveting power. Not plotting for failure of someone who was given the trust and mandate by the majority. It is honoring the will of the people." ~Dr. Ethel Pineda
"Rain, indeed, makes plants grow exuberantly. Be like a plant." ~Ethel Pineda
"There are things beyond our control. That includes how people feel and think about us.
Don't sweat it." ~Ethel Pineda
"This country should be razed to the ground. Until all politicians who have long held hostage the welfare of the citizens for money and power suffer the fate of traitors. Until men who profess to be guardians of souls and keepers of faith but cannot keep their hands off our children taste firsthand the life of hell on earth. Until the last drug lord has reaped the death that he sowed.
Then we will live again. Like Phoenix rising from the ashes." ~Ethel Pineda
"Travel well ... to the mountains and rivers of your youth, and into the great beyond. You will be remembered with fondness." ~Ethel Pineda
"We are too focused on physical appearance. Character and values propel a nation to greatness." ~Ethel Pineda
"We have to be more aggressive in the battle of perceptions." ~Ethel Pineda
"We travel along different paths, but will converge at the same destination. We are diverse,but with the same goal." ~Ethel Pineda, March 14, 2017
"You don't have to stop and throw stones at every dog that barks." ~Ethel Pineda, January 10, 2018
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ATTRIBUTED QUOTES
“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.” ~Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
"Everyone lives by selling something." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"I believe that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for this is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost." ~John Steinbeck
"I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference." ~Abraham Lincoln
"If thou of fortune be bereft,
and in thy store there be but left
two loaves, sell one, and with the dole,
buy hyacinths to feed thy soul."
~John Greenleaf Whittier
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"The prosperous inevitably decline, the full inevitably empty." ~Humane King Sutra
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing." ~Seneca
"We have no power over external things, and the good that ought to be the object of our earnest pursuit, is to be found only within ourselves." ~Epictetus
"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." ~Ernest Hemingway, Nobel laureate speech
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"We have to be more aggressive in the battle of perceptions." ~Ethel Pineda
"We travel along different paths, but will converge at the same destination. We are diverse,but with the same goal." ~Ethel Pineda, March 14, 2017
"You don't have to stop and throw stones at every dog that barks." ~Ethel Pineda, January 10, 2018
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ATTRIBUTED QUOTES
“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.” ~Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
"Everyone lives by selling something." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"I believe that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for this is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost." ~John Steinbeck
"I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference." ~Abraham Lincoln
"If thou of fortune be bereft,
and in thy store there be but left
two loaves, sell one, and with the dole,
buy hyacinths to feed thy soul."
~John Greenleaf Whittier
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"The prosperous inevitably decline, the full inevitably empty." ~Humane King Sutra
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing." ~Seneca
"We have no power over external things, and the good that ought to be the object of our earnest pursuit, is to be found only within ourselves." ~Epictetus
"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." ~Ernest Hemingway, Nobel laureate speech
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