"A man shining out from the shadows earns more respect than a man who've always been under the light and never felt the glorious moment of walking out of the dark." ~ George Daniel Anos
"Adversity strengthens the spirit, hardens the soul, what we master becomes ours to use." ~George Daniel Anos
"And it's there (water) that I feel my best. The albatross and the whales they are my brothers" ~George Daniel Anos
"Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond."
~George Daniel Anos
"...but how my heart soars looking straight at a sun reduced to a harmless orb. It's the gesture and the feeling that goes along with it that leaves its mark, the love in the giving." ~George Daniel Anos
"Destiny will show us a new way.. a path where the cross and burdens we carried for so long become keys that open the new doors." ~George Daniel Anos
"For behind every face is an epic, it sits there waiting for the right time to be told. So that it could have a life of its own, perch on the hearts of those who think themselves too victimized that they couldn't even smell the roses anymore,..." ~George Daniel Anos, The Humans of PMMA
"For obvious reasons. The weirdly comforting smell of organic decay, lilies on the water, brilliant blue of the skies and the sea, warm breezes, pine trees, stretches of grasses, the call of fisher kings. The peculiar smell of Juan Luna. The confluence of all these and more. Once again I am reminded of that most important thing that many educators fail to understand, just like in ancient times, the things that truly endure are not what is poured... but what is planted." ~George Daniel Anos, January 2018 on Organic Farming
"Friendship and brotherhood are concepts you don't just pay lip service to. These are things that don’t just inhabit a small quiet place in your heart, but lights up your life like a raging flame." ~George Daniel Anos
"I don't compare myself with other people, I just aim to do my best in my own simple ways. In the end, all I want me to see is the best version of me whom no one can ever be." ~George Daniel Anos
"I don't want my pain and struggle to make me a victim. I want my battle to make me someone else's hero." ~George Daniel Anos
"I look back now and I realize how strong I have been. But of course as I always believed in, we make the best of what comes our way." ~George Daniel Anos
"I spend my days minding my own business and not giving a shit about yours... you should try it." ~George Daniel Anos
"In order to be different, one must be irreplacable." ~George Daniel Anos
"It (also) reminds me of the timeless resonance and power of words, that as a writer, I must never fail to forget." ~George Daniel Anos
"My New Year's wish for everyone: 'May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies and quick to make friends. Be easy to love, hard to break and impossible to forget.'" ~George Daniel Anos
"My students are never my paperworks nor burden. They will learn from me what they will apply in the real world someday. They will be part of my legacy." ~George Daniel Anos
"No one has monopoly for pain." ~George Daniel Anos
"None of the world's petty vanities and shallowness can help build you up more than the full love and support of a partner." ~George Daniel Anos
"Old is gold as wine gets better with age." ~George Daniel Anos
"One must never fail to remember where one has been." ~George Daniel Anos (2018)
"One thing shall remain a constant: thoughts of them will always be my potent shots of courage, faith and hope, pulling me from any ebb, like the moon the tide." ~George Daniel Anos
"Once you accept the fact that everything is NOT about you, you'll have the serenity in knowing where you belong in this world. That is where true happiness starts, accepting yourself, your limitations, your strength and your flaws." ~George Daniel Anos
"People asked how could I still keep smiling amidst the drenching rain. I said because I loved as much when it mattered, and still so much love remains." ~George Daniel Anos
"Skyscapes and hidden places have the magical power to energize your soul." ~George Daniel Anos
"Someday, when great things has come to pass in the reshaping of a nation for so long shorn and shaven its full potential, allowing it at last to soar to heights it once thought elusive, we’ll all look back. The secret of starry nights is that it is magic in itself, a promise of spell binding beauty when darkness tries to swallow our part of the world. It is also when the most intimate and secret tendrils that curl through our minds become awash with the glow of starlight, some twining around the songs and tributes (or in this modern times, posts) that lifted our spirits. No wonder that the Greeks, on these warm and tender and diamond studded nights, named many constellations after their heroes. They didn’t forget the stars of course, immortalizing them with the characters worthy of the heroic standards of their days too. These twinkling lights deserve it, for theirs is the promise that after the dazzle of the sun flaming red then dying at the end of the day, the canvass of the night holds promise for a sight that is balm for soul." ~George Daniel Anos, The 89th Constellation, 13 February 2017 via collective.com.ph
"... someday when the era of the Eagle of the South comes to an end, ushering forth a new Philippines where ‘hope’, ‘change’, and ‘awakening’ falls easy from everyone’s lips, when the despair that has shackled the powerless and the disinherited vanishes, the heroes of that period will be inevitably immortalized as well. And when, as a part of the poem by Walter de La Mare goes:” silence surged softly backward when the plunging hoofs were gone,” these warriors, whose selfless and courageous dedication in the forefront of the battles that won the war, will earn their rightful place. Ever so brightly will they blaze in the grand pantheon of stars marking a nation’s historic turning point. From there, they will grace the night sky above an archipelago of seven thousand one hundred seven islands given a chance of rebirth, all because one man took it upon himself to spend his twilight years to, in borrowing from the words of Sir Mark Lopez, “with uncanny and unorthodox ways, unburden a nation.”
The 89th Constellation: A tribute to the 13 Filipino FB Social Media bloggers lead by Thinking Pinoy on their historic visit to President RR Duterte in Malacanang Palace, his staunch supporters. (February 2017)
"Sometimes it gets quite toxic that you feel overwhelmed, when for a bit you forget your value. That's when you dredge up lil tidbits of priceless gems from special people. Those heartwarming things they say that is meant from the heart." ~George Daniel Anos
["Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.” ~Edna St. Vincent Millay]
"That merry group of brain cells from the brilliant side of my synapses which scrawled its colours on the walls of wonderment, when my world was small and young, shrilly agrees." ~George Daniel Anos
"The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions." ~George Daniel Anos
"The curse of a poet is that you have to give birth to something to make sense of your extremes." ~George Daniel Anos
"The only judgment we should accept with all our hearts are those from the ones we love." ~George Daniel Anos
"The only reason we learn their past is not to judge or punish, but to understand how they need to be loved." ~George Daniel Anos
"The wisdom we gain from our pain or tragedies are important to other people, guideposts they can learn something from in life." ~George Daniel Anos
"There are people in your life whom you unknowingly inspire simply by being you." ~George Daniel Anos
"There's ellipsism, a kind of sadness when you don't know how history will turn out. There's kenopsia, that eerie, forlorn atmosphere when a place that was once crowded and bustled with life suddenly became empty. There's monachopsis, the subtle feeling of being out of place. Also there's schadenfreude, when you feel happy for other people's misfortune. But so far, I am yet to discover a word for that feeling you get when your children grow so fast you can't lift them up with just one arm anymore. Or hug and kiss them as you would a puppy. Or is there?" ~George Daniel Anos, April 21, 2018
"There is no midlife crisis for a life that despite filled with setbacks, is well lived." ~George Daniel Anos, 17 September 2015
"There's smoke in the mind when the heart is on fire." ~from George Daniel Anos
"They hail from the grounds where all learned the notion of mind over matter, where sweat was profuse, nerves’ made steady, sinews’ turned turned tougher and muscles and psyche hewn to iron mettle. And importantly, it is where many learned the power of prayers and benediction." ~George Daniel Anos, April 9, 2017
"Things came to a standstill, then became mere wisps on the edges when hard reality set in, all because life threw you a curveball you didn’t see coming." ~George Daniel Anos
"This is my version of preparing tackles and lines, my recharging mindless task.
Find what works for you. You need to charge your soul every once in a while too." ~George Daniel Anos, 2019
"Time grabs you by the wrist directs you where to go." ~George Daniel Anos
"Too many people go through life running from something that isn't after them. Some also run after others not realizing that if they're meant in their lives, they won't run away." ~George Daniel Anos
"We all have the power to make a difference. Perhaps not to the world grandly but to another person's world beautifully." ~George Daniel Anos
"We live the breathless moments. Together it makes a canvas only we have the pleasure of looking at. The colors, the hue, the kaleidoscope of feelings forever entrapped in our minds." ~George Daniel Anos, 17 September 2015
"We never yield,
our dreams to fear."
~George Daniel Anos
"When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night." ~George Daniel Anos
"When people look down on you and talk as if they know what's better and you below them, just keep moving forward. Be deaf and blind to their words and put-down stares, just get your act together and your ass to work." ~George Daniel Anos
"When someone is trying to change their ways, the worst thing you can do is bring up the past." ~George Daniel Anos
"When someone tells you it can't be done, it's more a reflection of themselves than yours." ~George Daniel Anos, 4 December 2014
"You can make all the effort in the world and yet someone will still tell you you're not good enough . But this isn't about them; its about you. You just need to be enough for you." ~Pillow Thoughts
"You often feel tired not because you've done too much but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you." ~repost from GDA
"Your upturned and sun-kissed faces are their faces, your hungry and curious eyes are their eyes. I live looking forward to those moments, and you are my lifelines..." ~George Daniel Anos, January 30, 2016
VERSE
BLUE GALAS
The Line is straight, the line is firm,
Staring dead ahead they never squirm,
Through whatever elements be that day,
One battlecry, together they shout and pray,
"The fight will never end in vain or be done,
As long as the LONG BLUE LINE stands as ONE..."
~A tribute to the spirit of BROTHERHOOD and CAMARADERIE, a distinguishing benchmark of the PHILIPPINE MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY.
"Defying the Elements"
Rocks and granite under the sun's tenacity,
Laurels and moss hurdling rains' animosity.
Unfolding their glory under adversity
~George Daniel Anos
19 October 2013
(A tribute to the PMMA Silent Drill Company members. Silent drill landmark, in front of hotel)
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"Hello my little ones,
welcome to the world!
Tomorrow begins your send offs,
to the farthest reaches. .
Bring your father pride
and carry his words, .
And as ya'll bravely fly away,
I give my fondest of wishes." .
~George Daniel Anos
on his maiden book "You Bleed"
Book launching, August 19, 2017
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"How indeed???
How can you find your way,
If you'll see the day just the same,
as that day when you chose to stay,
on what you know breaks you,
but raises you up just the same?"
~George Daniel Anos
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"I thank you for the music and your stories of the road I thank you for the freedom when it came my time to go I thank you for the kindness and the times when you got tough And papa, I don't think I said I love you near enough."
~George Daniel Anos
(Coming publication 2018)
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"It's the words we silently utter to ourselves,
there in the quiet of the nights
with lights strung along the shore,
or stars so maddeningly beautiful,
that either empowers or destroy us."
~George Daniel Anos
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ONCE AGAIN
Once you said
you'd touch my soul,
to mend the cracks
and make it whole.
.
But in the course
of our lives' crossing,
the eyes that have been
used to crying,
.
the heart that broke
in countless ways,
the life that has
seen better days,
.
I thought would have
a new beginning,
turned out it was
a new way of dying.
.
~George Daniel Anos
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"Sometimes I wonder why certain
kinds of love even existed,
how they could even have come
into being in the first place.
Why can't hearts just find the
right fit with the right one, like
the diurnal cycle of the sun,
fixed even as seasons turn."
~George Daniel Anos
❄️π·ππ»❄️πΏππΌ
THE BREAKING
By George Daniel Anos
The roses fell from her hands that night. And on the whole of that day there, it lay, shriveling under the onslaught of the sun, cringing from the exhaust of passing cars, withering from the assault of the pavement’s heat.
He picked it up before meeting her, for the path that leads to where they meet, is also the path to follow before separation at the crossroads.
“Why’d you left it on the ground when it fell?” he asked her, visibly hurt.
“Maybe I just want you to pick it up and give it back” she answered.
“What if instead of giving it back to you I decide to give it to someone else?”
“I know there’s a chance of that happening. You see, I already took off all the thorns. That way, she won’t get hurt the way I did.”
She smiled.
He was broken. π
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"The dusky roll of day
into the blanket of the night.
The roars of thunderous hearts
and lights wispy glow,
as a sight on the horizon lay
splendid in delight,
' suffusing weary parts
of life's..... ebb and flow."
~From a poem titled "Sunset."
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"The echoing final rumbles
Of the night with brightened sky
When lightning strikes were all we saw
Until that sad goodbye"
~gda~
♥*✿*•♥
"Then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim
The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin
But he never seems to notice he's just got to find
Another place to play"
~George Daniel Anos
(Coming publication 2018)
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"The morning sky is cloudless blue.
Woke up to this sight on this day of all days,
must be darn special for someone true.
wondered who, then I realized,
it's for you...."
~George Daniel Anos
(Dedicated to Dex Ognita)
15 December 2017
"To compete with no one.
To run my own race.
To have no desire to play the game
of being better than someone
in any way or form.
Just the aim of being the best version
of my own self than I was yesterday.
That is all. 2017, turn the lights on."
~George Daniel Anos
3 January 2017
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TO WRITE
By George Daniel Anos
A poem is the easiest thing to write
You start with a kiss then end with a bite
Begin naively then end with a twist
The beat of your words should hit like a fist
You put together the sinews that bind,
scars of the heart and the weights of the mind
Share wonders of joy with life's bitter pain
All things fought under the sun and the rain
To hear from one's self the yearning to show,
from yonder and near,
what it takes to know
This calling must turn brave warriors to bard,
all those who endured,
and pushed back real hard
The world will then choose from these hardened knights,
with ashes and blood they'll easily write.
Published in YOU BLEED, launched 19 August 2017
"When all my faith,
can fit within,
a pocketful of dreams.
And all my hopes,
have been sent high,
and flown by Angel wings.
Then see the truths,
I dearly held,
to be not what they seemed.
It's then I know,
that I will find,
the message wisdom brings."
~George Daniel Anos
"When I'm sailing
All caught up in the reverie,
every word is a symphony
Won't you believe me?"
~George Daniel Anos
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ATTRIBUTED QUOTES
"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses, it is an idea that possesses the mind!" ~Robert Oxton Bolton
"A plant needs to do more than stretch its leaves toward the sun. It also needs to send down roots deep into the ground. They hold on tightly in the dark, out of sight where it is easy to forget about them. But it is the fact that a plant can do these two things at once, anchoring itself to the earth even as it reaches for the sky, that makes it strong." ~Cameron Dokey
"All that you call the world is the shadow of that substance which you are the perpetual creation of the powers of thought, of those that are independent and of those that are independent of your will. Do not encumber yourself with the fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects; let the soul be erect and all things will go well. You think me the child of circumstances. I make my circumstance." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson from The Transcendentalist
"Anticipation is power. You gotta learn to know and recognize what's coming so you could adapt to it. You gotta be able to prepare for it." ~Project Life Mastery
"At times there will be fire; this we can't avoid. But its up to us to decide whether it will consume or purify." ~Christen Rodgers
"Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and forgiving heart. Be the one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them." ~Marvin J. Ashton
“But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.” ~Ernest Hemingway
"Do not just practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it anujd knowledge can raise men to the divine." ~Ludwig van Beethoven (2017 will bring this to life)
"Don’t let anyone kill that spark that makes you special." ~Unattributed
"Do not speak bad of yourself. For the warrior within hears your words and is lessened by them." ~Old Japanese Samurai Prover
"Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship." ~Denzel Washington
"Every dream that you left behind is a piece of your future that won't exist." ~Steve Jobs
"Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities." ~Phil Kaye
"Forgetting is the first step to completely removing something from our cultural collective memory. A society that remembers is a healthier society than one that keeps restarting from scratch.” ~Todd McGrain, an art professor at Cornell University
“Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it’s that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through—originality.” ~Jack Kerouac
"Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection." ~Joseph R. Cooke
"Having the right mindset, the right mental attitude, is the determining factor on whether you will make it or not." ~Emeka Ossai
"He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair." ~Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"I am learning to see. I don’t know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn’t stop where it once used to." ~Rainer Maria Rilke
“I’m preparing my soul to write, like a fisherman preparing his tackle before going out to sea. If I don’t do this, and think only the fish matter, I’ll never achieve anything.” ~Ernest Hemingway, author of the classic The Old Man and the Sea
"If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need. If you're going to question something, question authority. If you're going to lose something, lose your inhibitions. If you're going to gain something, gain respect and confidence. And if you're going to hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your dreams." ~Daniel Goldston
"The true measure of friendship isn't how you feel about someone else. It's about how they make you feel about yourself." ~From the movie, "The Wedding Ringer 2015.
"When you start to feel like things should have been better this year, remember the mountains and valleys that got you here. They are not accidents, and those moments weren't in vain. You are not the same. You have grown and you are growing. You are breathing, you are living, you are wrapped in endless, boundless grace. And things will get better. There is more to you than yesterday." ~Morgan Harper Nichols
“When you look into my eyes
And you see the crazy gypsy in my soul
It always comes as a surprise
When I feel my withered roots begin to grow
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own
That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home”
~Billy Joel
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." ~John Cotton Dana
"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings." -Gustave Flaubert
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." ~Bruce Lee
"I want to hold hands with you just to see how perfectly shaped they are together. Just to feel your warmth and rough skin. Just to never have to let go of you." ~Anon
“If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions.”
-Buddhist saying
"In a world that is quick to make us feel small, be the one who makes someone feel a little taller and lighter because of your kindness." ~Unattributed
"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." ~Denis Waitley
"Know the difference between those who stay to feed the soil and those who come to grab the fruit." ~Anon
"Life is hard. It's a battle everyday. Why not choose to fight to improve our own feelings about ourselves, instead of fighting to change what the world thinks?" ~Melissa Lindsay Crumpton
"Love is overcoming what you are not, making the differences obsolete with patient acceptance." ~Unattributed
"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to." ~Jim Jarmusch
"Once you become fearless, life becomes limitless." ~Anon
"One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place." ~Albert Einstein
"One of the keys to happiness is knowing you can't be great in everything but you can be awesome in something." ~Anon
"One of the most powerful force that shapes us as human beings is the desire to leave a legacy. What legacy would you leave behind?" ~Hannibal Lecter
"Only those who care about you can hear you when you're quiet. These are the ones who deserve your love, loyalty and trust above all others." ~Unattributed
"Only when a person finally looks within and says "it's me that needs to change" will they attract and keep great experiences...if you can't admit that, you are scared to face the person behind the mask." ~Daniel Chidiac
"Our blindness don't let us see the light that shines from our hearts making us already whole and complete. We must feel it so that it can lighten up our world." ~Anon
"Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind." ~Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
"People clap for the wrong reasons." ~Holden Caulfield
"People with low self esteem are 80 percent more likely to criticize others or to put them down in order to make themselves feel better, tougher and smarter. But people who are confident with themselves are more likely to take things as they are and enjoy them." ~Unattributed
"Poetry is essential to get a sense of how language works – how distillation pand rhythm and rhyme and colour can give the mere act of putting words together an extraordinary expressive power." ~Unattributed
"Summer friends melt like winter snow but winter friends are friends forever..." ~Stark line, Game of Thrones
"The best hope of the Filipino people was crushed; a light in a dark place was snuffed out.” ~Frank Ernest Gannett
“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe-man who destroys it.” ~Gautama Buddha
“The good Lord brooked no wreckage that did not contain at least a seed of hope.” ~Unattributed
"The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others." ~Unattributed
"The moon does not need the sun to tell her she is already whole." ~Lang Leav
"The reason why playground slides were made, is for us to experience the happiness of falling even when there's no one catching." ~Anon
"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights." ~Giotto di Bondone
"There are moments when finishing upright is already a win." ~Unattributed
“Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life?” ~Christopher Babson
"Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes for you." ~Tony Robbins
"Travelling, it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a story teller." ~Ibn Battuta
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun." ~Winnie the Pooh
"We must become vagabonds and wander aimlessly through the uncharted spaces to truly become alive." ~Michael Doane
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people’s models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open." ~Shakti Gawain
"When you have good mentors to guide you, you shorten your learning curve by learning from their mistakes so you don't make them." ~Emeka Ossai
"Wisdom is learning the boundaries of one's designated lane." ~Raymond Reddington
"You are powerful in that you shape the future of young people whose future is also that of our nation. This is not only in the aspect of the sizable contribution of merchant marine officers to our economy, but in their being worthy and productive citizens whose example would pass on to the next generations." ~Marichu Bergu, Guest Speaker and Lecturer
"You must learn to master a new way to think before you can master a new way to be." ~Unattributed
"Your vision becomes clear when you look inside your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~Carl Gustav Jung
BIO
About the Author:
The author is a member of Philippine Merchant Marine Academy's technical instructors for the College of Marine Transportation. He graduated from the same institution as Cum Laude, coming from the Class of 2001. At the same time, he also belonged to the top ten of the graduating class, was the Editor in Chief of the student's publication "The Galleon" and feature editor of the yearbook "The Helm". He was also the best speaker and team captain of the winning team in a debate. He is a father of two, his daughter Stephanie Katrin Ray and son George Jr. He sailed for sometime for various shipping companies eventually stopping as soon as he got his Chief Mate's license due to medical reasons. At PMMA, he was once the chairman of the Board of Investigation and also served as a member of the CHED's National Technical Committee for Marine Transportation. Presently, he chairs the Instructional Package Committee, is the Officer in Charge of the Training Center's Simulators and represented PMMA on the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Department of Transportation and Communication's (DOTC) Development of Aids to Navigation in Luzon and Visayas Project. He juggled his academic responsibilities whilst working on this book, featuring what he believes is the best from his collection of writings, following his lifelong dream of writing a book of poetry and proses. He felt this is the right time to do so.
YouBleed by George Daniel Anos
VERSE
COLORS
Dreams of gloried past,
The aged glow,
The colored mast, Lying low, Raising fast, But we will show, As shadows cast, We will throw, All doubts- AVAST*, THEY MUST KNOW, Surely they MUST,
Glories DO NOT FADE…
Nor crumble to dust.
~George Daniel Anos
10 February 2014
*Avast- a nautical command to stop or cease.
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You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
~Kahlil Gibran
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"Destiny will show us a new way.. a path where the cross and burdens we carried for so long become keys that open the new doors." ~George Daniel Anos
"For behind every face is an epic, it sits there waiting for the right time to be told. So that it could have a life of its own, perch on the hearts of those who think themselves too victimized that they couldn't even smell the roses anymore,..." ~George Daniel Anos, The Humans of PMMA
"For obvious reasons. The weirdly comforting smell of organic decay, lilies on the water, brilliant blue of the skies and the sea, warm breezes, pine trees, stretches of grasses, the call of fisher kings. The peculiar smell of Juan Luna. The confluence of all these and more. Once again I am reminded of that most important thing that many educators fail to understand, just like in ancient times, the things that truly endure are not what is poured... but what is planted." ~George Daniel Anos, January 2018 on Organic Farming
"Friendship and brotherhood are concepts you don't just pay lip service to. These are things that don’t just inhabit a small quiet place in your heart, but lights up your life like a raging flame." ~George Daniel Anos
"I don't compare myself with other people, I just aim to do my best in my own simple ways. In the end, all I want me to see is the best version of me whom no one can ever be." ~George Daniel Anos
"I don't want my pain and struggle to make me a victim. I want my battle to make me someone else's hero." ~George Daniel Anos
"I look back now and I realize how strong I have been. But of course as I always believed in, we make the best of what comes our way." ~George Daniel Anos
"I spend my days minding my own business and not giving a shit about yours... you should try it." ~George Daniel Anos
"In order to be different, one must be irreplacable." ~George Daniel Anos
"It (also) reminds me of the timeless resonance and power of words, that as a writer, I must never fail to forget." ~George Daniel Anos
"My New Year's wish for everyone: 'May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies and quick to make friends. Be easy to love, hard to break and impossible to forget.'" ~George Daniel Anos
"My students are never my paperworks nor burden. They will learn from me what they will apply in the real world someday. They will be part of my legacy." ~George Daniel Anos
"No one has monopoly for pain." ~George Daniel Anos
"None of the world's petty vanities and shallowness can help build you up more than the full love and support of a partner." ~George Daniel Anos
"Old is gold as wine gets better with age." ~George Daniel Anos
"One must never fail to remember where one has been." ~George Daniel Anos (2018)
"One thing shall remain a constant: thoughts of them will always be my potent shots of courage, faith and hope, pulling me from any ebb, like the moon the tide." ~George Daniel Anos
"Once you accept the fact that everything is NOT about you, you'll have the serenity in knowing where you belong in this world. That is where true happiness starts, accepting yourself, your limitations, your strength and your flaws." ~George Daniel Anos
"People asked how could I still keep smiling amidst the drenching rain. I said because I loved as much when it mattered, and still so much love remains." ~George Daniel Anos
"Skyscapes and hidden places have the magical power to energize your soul." ~George Daniel Anos
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"Someday, when great things has come to pass in the reshaping of a nation for so long shorn and shaven its full potential, allowing it at last to soar to heights it once thought elusive, we’ll all look back. The secret of starry nights is that it is magic in itself, a promise of spell binding beauty when darkness tries to swallow our part of the world. It is also when the most intimate and secret tendrils that curl through our minds become awash with the glow of starlight, some twining around the songs and tributes (or in this modern times, posts) that lifted our spirits. No wonder that the Greeks, on these warm and tender and diamond studded nights, named many constellations after their heroes. They didn’t forget the stars of course, immortalizing them with the characters worthy of the heroic standards of their days too. These twinkling lights deserve it, for theirs is the promise that after the dazzle of the sun flaming red then dying at the end of the day, the canvass of the night holds promise for a sight that is balm for soul." ~George Daniel Anos, The 89th Constellation, 13 February 2017 via collective.com.ph
"... someday when the era of the Eagle of the South comes to an end, ushering forth a new Philippines where ‘hope’, ‘change’, and ‘awakening’ falls easy from everyone’s lips, when the despair that has shackled the powerless and the disinherited vanishes, the heroes of that period will be inevitably immortalized as well. And when, as a part of the poem by Walter de La Mare goes:” silence surged softly backward when the plunging hoofs were gone,” these warriors, whose selfless and courageous dedication in the forefront of the battles that won the war, will earn their rightful place. Ever so brightly will they blaze in the grand pantheon of stars marking a nation’s historic turning point. From there, they will grace the night sky above an archipelago of seven thousand one hundred seven islands given a chance of rebirth, all because one man took it upon himself to spend his twilight years to, in borrowing from the words of Sir Mark Lopez, “with uncanny and unorthodox ways, unburden a nation.”
And that is why all of them will make up the brilliance of a constellation that will bear the name:
“DUTERTUS.”
The 89th Constellation: A tribute to the 13 Filipino FB Social Media bloggers lead by Thinking Pinoy on their historic visit to President RR Duterte in Malacanang Palace, his staunch supporters. (February 2017)
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"Sometimes it gets quite toxic that you feel overwhelmed, when for a bit you forget your value. That's when you dredge up lil tidbits of priceless gems from special people. Those heartwarming things they say that is meant from the heart." ~George Daniel Anos
["Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.” ~Edna St. Vincent Millay]
"That merry group of brain cells from the brilliant side of my synapses which scrawled its colours on the walls of wonderment, when my world was small and young, shrilly agrees." ~George Daniel Anos
"The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions." ~George Daniel Anos
"The curse of a poet is that you have to give birth to something to make sense of your extremes." ~George Daniel Anos
"The only judgment we should accept with all our hearts are those from the ones we love." ~George Daniel Anos
"The only reason we learn their past is not to judge or punish, but to understand how they need to be loved." ~George Daniel Anos
"The wisdom we gain from our pain or tragedies are important to other people, guideposts they can learn something from in life." ~George Daniel Anos
"There are people in your life whom you unknowingly inspire simply by being you." ~George Daniel Anos
"There's ellipsism, a kind of sadness when you don't know how history will turn out. There's kenopsia, that eerie, forlorn atmosphere when a place that was once crowded and bustled with life suddenly became empty. There's monachopsis, the subtle feeling of being out of place. Also there's schadenfreude, when you feel happy for other people's misfortune. But so far, I am yet to discover a word for that feeling you get when your children grow so fast you can't lift them up with just one arm anymore. Or hug and kiss them as you would a puppy. Or is there?" ~George Daniel Anos, April 21, 2018
"There is no midlife crisis for a life that despite filled with setbacks, is well lived." ~George Daniel Anos, 17 September 2015
"There's smoke in the mind when the heart is on fire." ~from George Daniel Anos
"They hail from the grounds where all learned the notion of mind over matter, where sweat was profuse, nerves’ made steady, sinews’ turned turned tougher and muscles and psyche hewn to iron mettle. And importantly, it is where many learned the power of prayers and benediction." ~George Daniel Anos, April 9, 2017
"Things came to a standstill, then became mere wisps on the edges when hard reality set in, all because life threw you a curveball you didn’t see coming." ~George Daniel Anos
"This is my version of preparing tackles and lines, my recharging mindless task.
Find what works for you. You need to charge your soul every once in a while too." ~George Daniel Anos, 2019
"Time grabs you by the wrist directs you where to go." ~George Daniel Anos
"Too many people go through life running from something that isn't after them. Some also run after others not realizing that if they're meant in their lives, they won't run away." ~George Daniel Anos
"We all have the power to make a difference. Perhaps not to the world grandly but to another person's world beautifully." ~George Daniel Anos
"We live the breathless moments. Together it makes a canvas only we have the pleasure of looking at. The colors, the hue, the kaleidoscope of feelings forever entrapped in our minds." ~George Daniel Anos, 17 September 2015
"We never yield,
our dreams to fear."
~George Daniel Anos
"When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night." ~George Daniel Anos
"When people look down on you and talk as if they know what's better and you below them, just keep moving forward. Be deaf and blind to their words and put-down stares, just get your act together and your ass to work." ~George Daniel Anos
"When someone is trying to change their ways, the worst thing you can do is bring up the past." ~George Daniel Anos
"When someone tells you it can't be done, it's more a reflection of themselves than yours." ~George Daniel Anos, 4 December 2014
"You can make all the effort in the world and yet someone will still tell you you're not good enough . But this isn't about them; its about you. You just need to be enough for you." ~Pillow Thoughts
"You often feel tired not because you've done too much but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you." ~repost from GDA
"Your upturned and sun-kissed faces are their faces, your hungry and curious eyes are their eyes. I live looking forward to those moments, and you are my lifelines..." ~George Daniel Anos, January 30, 2016
VERSE
BLUE GALAS
The Line is straight, the line is firm,
Staring dead ahead they never squirm,
Through whatever elements be that day,
One battlecry, together they shout and pray,
"The fight will never end in vain or be done,
As long as the LONG BLUE LINE stands as ONE..."
~A tribute to the spirit of BROTHERHOOD and CAMARADERIE, a distinguishing benchmark of the PHILIPPINE MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY.
"Defying the Elements"
Rocks and granite under the sun's tenacity,
Laurels and moss hurdling rains' animosity.
Unfolding their glory under adversity
~George Daniel Anos
19 October 2013
(A tribute to the PMMA Silent Drill Company members. Silent drill landmark, in front of hotel)
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"Hello my little ones,
welcome to the world!
Tomorrow begins your send offs,
to the farthest reaches. .
Bring your father pride
and carry his words, .
And as ya'll bravely fly away,
I give my fondest of wishes." .
~George Daniel Anos
on his maiden book "You Bleed"
Book launching, August 19, 2017
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"How indeed???
How can you find your way,
If you'll see the day just the same,
as that day when you chose to stay,
on what you know breaks you,
but raises you up just the same?"
~George Daniel Anos
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"I thank you for the music and your stories of the road I thank you for the freedom when it came my time to go I thank you for the kindness and the times when you got tough And papa, I don't think I said I love you near enough."
~George Daniel Anos
(Coming publication 2018)
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"It's the words we silently utter to ourselves,
there in the quiet of the nights
with lights strung along the shore,
or stars so maddeningly beautiful,
that either empowers or destroy us."
~George Daniel Anos
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ONCE AGAIN
Once you said
you'd touch my soul,
to mend the cracks
and make it whole.
.
But in the course
of our lives' crossing,
the eyes that have been
used to crying,
.
the heart that broke
in countless ways,
the life that has
seen better days,
.
I thought would have
a new beginning,
turned out it was
a new way of dying.
.
~George Daniel Anos
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"Sometimes I wonder why certain
kinds of love even existed,
how they could even have come
into being in the first place.
Why can't hearts just find the
right fit with the right one, like
the diurnal cycle of the sun,
fixed even as seasons turn."
~George Daniel Anos
❄️π·ππ»❄️πΏππΌ
THE BREAKING
By George Daniel Anos
The roses fell from her hands that night. And on the whole of that day there, it lay, shriveling under the onslaught of the sun, cringing from the exhaust of passing cars, withering from the assault of the pavement’s heat.
He picked it up before meeting her, for the path that leads to where they meet, is also the path to follow before separation at the crossroads.
“Why’d you left it on the ground when it fell?” he asked her, visibly hurt.
“Maybe I just want you to pick it up and give it back” she answered.
“What if instead of giving it back to you I decide to give it to someone else?”
“I know there’s a chance of that happening. You see, I already took off all the thorns. That way, she won’t get hurt the way I did.”
She smiled.
He was broken. π
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"The dusky roll of day
into the blanket of the night.
The roars of thunderous hearts
and lights wispy glow,
as a sight on the horizon lay
splendid in delight,
' suffusing weary parts
of life's..... ebb and flow."
~From a poem titled "Sunset."
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"The echoing final rumbles
Of the night with brightened sky
When lightning strikes were all we saw
Until that sad goodbye"
~gda~
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"Then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim
The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin
But he never seems to notice he's just got to find
Another place to play"
~George Daniel Anos
(Coming publication 2018)
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"The morning sky is cloudless blue.
Woke up to this sight on this day of all days,
must be darn special for someone true.
wondered who, then I realized,
it's for you...."
~George Daniel Anos
(Dedicated to Dex Ognita)
15 December 2017
"To compete with no one.
To run my own race.
To have no desire to play the game
of being better than someone
in any way or form.
Just the aim of being the best version
of my own self than I was yesterday.
That is all. 2017, turn the lights on."
~George Daniel Anos
3 January 2017
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TO WRITE
By George Daniel Anos
A poem is the easiest thing to write
You start with a kiss then end with a bite
Begin naively then end with a twist
The beat of your words should hit like a fist
You put together the sinews that bind,
scars of the heart and the weights of the mind
Share wonders of joy with life's bitter pain
All things fought under the sun and the rain
To hear from one's self the yearning to show,
from yonder and near,
what it takes to know
This calling must turn brave warriors to bard,
all those who endured,
and pushed back real hard
The world will then choose from these hardened knights,
with ashes and blood they'll easily write.
Published in YOU BLEED, launched 19 August 2017
"When all my faith,
can fit within,
a pocketful of dreams.
And all my hopes,
have been sent high,
and flown by Angel wings.
Then see the truths,
I dearly held,
to be not what they seemed.
It's then I know,
that I will find,
the message wisdom brings."
~George Daniel Anos
"When I'm sailing
All caught up in the reverie,
every word is a symphony
Won't you believe me?"
~George Daniel Anos
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ATTRIBUTED QUOTES
"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses, it is an idea that possesses the mind!" ~Robert Oxton Bolton
"A plant needs to do more than stretch its leaves toward the sun. It also needs to send down roots deep into the ground. They hold on tightly in the dark, out of sight where it is easy to forget about them. But it is the fact that a plant can do these two things at once, anchoring itself to the earth even as it reaches for the sky, that makes it strong." ~Cameron Dokey
"All that you call the world is the shadow of that substance which you are the perpetual creation of the powers of thought, of those that are independent and of those that are independent of your will. Do not encumber yourself with the fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects; let the soul be erect and all things will go well. You think me the child of circumstances. I make my circumstance." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson from The Transcendentalist
"Anticipation is power. You gotta learn to know and recognize what's coming so you could adapt to it. You gotta be able to prepare for it." ~Project Life Mastery
"At times there will be fire; this we can't avoid. But its up to us to decide whether it will consume or purify." ~Christen Rodgers
"Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and forgiving heart. Be the one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them." ~Marvin J. Ashton
“But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.” ~Ernest Hemingway
"Do not just practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it anujd knowledge can raise men to the divine." ~Ludwig van Beethoven (2017 will bring this to life)
"Don’t let anyone kill that spark that makes you special." ~Unattributed
"Do not speak bad of yourself. For the warrior within hears your words and is lessened by them." ~Old Japanese Samurai Prover
"Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship." ~Denzel Washington
"Every dream that you left behind is a piece of your future that won't exist." ~Steve Jobs
"Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities." ~Phil Kaye
"Forgetting is the first step to completely removing something from our cultural collective memory. A society that remembers is a healthier society than one that keeps restarting from scratch.” ~Todd McGrain, an art professor at Cornell University
“Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it’s that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through—originality.” ~Jack Kerouac
"Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection." ~Joseph R. Cooke
"Having the right mindset, the right mental attitude, is the determining factor on whether you will make it or not." ~Emeka Ossai
"He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair." ~Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"I am learning to see. I don’t know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn’t stop where it once used to." ~Rainer Maria Rilke
“I’m preparing my soul to write, like a fisherman preparing his tackle before going out to sea. If I don’t do this, and think only the fish matter, I’ll never achieve anything.” ~Ernest Hemingway, author of the classic The Old Man and the Sea
"If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need. If you're going to question something, question authority. If you're going to lose something, lose your inhibitions. If you're going to gain something, gain respect and confidence. And if you're going to hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your dreams." ~Daniel Goldston
"The true measure of friendship isn't how you feel about someone else. It's about how they make you feel about yourself." ~From the movie, "The Wedding Ringer 2015.
"When you start to feel like things should have been better this year, remember the mountains and valleys that got you here. They are not accidents, and those moments weren't in vain. You are not the same. You have grown and you are growing. You are breathing, you are living, you are wrapped in endless, boundless grace. And things will get better. There is more to you than yesterday." ~Morgan Harper Nichols
“When you look into my eyes
And you see the crazy gypsy in my soul
It always comes as a surprise
When I feel my withered roots begin to grow
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own
That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home”
~Billy Joel
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." ~John Cotton Dana
"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings." -Gustave Flaubert
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." ~Bruce Lee
"I want to hold hands with you just to see how perfectly shaped they are together. Just to feel your warmth and rough skin. Just to never have to let go of you." ~Anon
“If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions.”
-Buddhist saying
"In a world that is quick to make us feel small, be the one who makes someone feel a little taller and lighter because of your kindness." ~Unattributed
"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." ~Denis Waitley
"Know the difference between those who stay to feed the soil and those who come to grab the fruit." ~Anon
"Life is hard. It's a battle everyday. Why not choose to fight to improve our own feelings about ourselves, instead of fighting to change what the world thinks?" ~Melissa Lindsay Crumpton
"Love is overcoming what you are not, making the differences obsolete with patient acceptance." ~Unattributed
"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to." ~Jim Jarmusch
"Once you become fearless, life becomes limitless." ~Anon
"One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place." ~Albert Einstein
"One of the keys to happiness is knowing you can't be great in everything but you can be awesome in something." ~Anon
"One of the most powerful force that shapes us as human beings is the desire to leave a legacy. What legacy would you leave behind?" ~Hannibal Lecter
"Only those who care about you can hear you when you're quiet. These are the ones who deserve your love, loyalty and trust above all others." ~Unattributed
"Only when a person finally looks within and says "it's me that needs to change" will they attract and keep great experiences...if you can't admit that, you are scared to face the person behind the mask." ~Daniel Chidiac
"Our blindness don't let us see the light that shines from our hearts making us already whole and complete. We must feel it so that it can lighten up our world." ~Anon
"Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind." ~Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
"People clap for the wrong reasons." ~Holden Caulfield
"People with low self esteem are 80 percent more likely to criticize others or to put them down in order to make themselves feel better, tougher and smarter. But people who are confident with themselves are more likely to take things as they are and enjoy them." ~Unattributed
"Poetry is essential to get a sense of how language works – how distillation pand rhythm and rhyme and colour can give the mere act of putting words together an extraordinary expressive power." ~Unattributed
"Summer friends melt like winter snow but winter friends are friends forever..." ~Stark line, Game of Thrones
"The best hope of the Filipino people was crushed; a light in a dark place was snuffed out.” ~Frank Ernest Gannett
“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe-man who destroys it.” ~Gautama Buddha
“The good Lord brooked no wreckage that did not contain at least a seed of hope.” ~Unattributed
"The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others." ~Unattributed
"The moon does not need the sun to tell her she is already whole." ~Lang Leav
"The reason why playground slides were made, is for us to experience the happiness of falling even when there's no one catching." ~Anon
"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights." ~Giotto di Bondone
"There are moments when finishing upright is already a win." ~Unattributed
“Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life?” ~Christopher Babson
"Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes for you." ~Tony Robbins
"Travelling, it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a story teller." ~Ibn Battuta
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun." ~Winnie the Pooh
"We must become vagabonds and wander aimlessly through the uncharted spaces to truly become alive." ~Michael Doane
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people’s models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open." ~Shakti Gawain
"When you have good mentors to guide you, you shorten your learning curve by learning from their mistakes so you don't make them." ~Emeka Ossai
"Wisdom is learning the boundaries of one's designated lane." ~Raymond Reddington
"You are powerful in that you shape the future of young people whose future is also that of our nation. This is not only in the aspect of the sizable contribution of merchant marine officers to our economy, but in their being worthy and productive citizens whose example would pass on to the next generations." ~Marichu Bergu, Guest Speaker and Lecturer
"You must learn to master a new way to think before you can master a new way to be." ~Unattributed
"Your vision becomes clear when you look inside your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~Carl Gustav Jung
BIO
About the Author:
The author is a member of Philippine Merchant Marine Academy's technical instructors for the College of Marine Transportation. He graduated from the same institution as Cum Laude, coming from the Class of 2001. At the same time, he also belonged to the top ten of the graduating class, was the Editor in Chief of the student's publication "The Galleon" and feature editor of the yearbook "The Helm". He was also the best speaker and team captain of the winning team in a debate. He is a father of two, his daughter Stephanie Katrin Ray and son George Jr. He sailed for sometime for various shipping companies eventually stopping as soon as he got his Chief Mate's license due to medical reasons. At PMMA, he was once the chairman of the Board of Investigation and also served as a member of the CHED's National Technical Committee for Marine Transportation. Presently, he chairs the Instructional Package Committee, is the Officer in Charge of the Training Center's Simulators and represented PMMA on the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Department of Transportation and Communication's (DOTC) Development of Aids to Navigation in Luzon and Visayas Project. He juggled his academic responsibilities whilst working on this book, featuring what he believes is the best from his collection of writings, following his lifelong dream of writing a book of poetry and proses. He felt this is the right time to do so.
YouBleed by George Daniel Anos
VERSE
COLORS
Dreams of gloried past,
The aged glow,
The colored mast, Lying low, Raising fast, But we will show, As shadows cast, We will throw, All doubts- AVAST*, THEY MUST KNOW, Surely they MUST,
Glories DO NOT FADE…
Nor crumble to dust.
~George Daniel Anos
10 February 2014
*Avast- a nautical command to stop or cease.
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You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
~Kahlil Gibran
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