Penny Graham - Art

"Art is the life and soul of any artist; be it paint, rock, song or poetry. Love it because its your best friend." ~Penny Graham on Lake Tyrel Art

‪Rose Marie Natoza Santos‬ Quotes

"As they say, everything has a breaking point and this is it...people are just fed up with all the lies, the manipulations and charades these unfit public servants and their cohorts had been doing for decades. People are now more discerning, more vigilant and more sensitive to any form of fakery." ~‪Rose Marie Natoza Santos‬, March 24, 2018 comment on TAPANG at MALASAKIT, DU30 Correspondents

"Anyone with no foresight, strong political will characterized by a deep sense of command responsibility and a genuine love for people he is supposed to govern - HAS NO RIGHT TO BE PRESIDENT AFTER PRRD!" ~Rose Marie Natoza Santos

"Backtracking is a good way to recover what is lost or forgotten." ~Rose Marie Natoza Santos, December 1, 2018

"Those who keeps on criticizing and yet enjoying the benefits of the projects are just fault finders, whiners and plain idiots." ~Rose Marie Natoza Santos 

"Sometimes, you cannot steal something visible... When you malign, disrespect or backstab someone who has supported and helped you in the past when you were just a nobody, 

you practically robbed that person his dignified respect and benevolence that he deserved." ~Rose Marie Natoza Santos (September 2, 2021)

"You have to be alive first to have rights. You can still live without rights but you can never have rights without life." ~Rose Marie Natoza Santos

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Michael J. Sandel - side of the question

“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.” ~Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?

Administrator/Blogger Note

It was a privilege to meet Michael J Sandel, an American Political Philosopher of Harvard University and author of the book Justice, in person during his Public Discourse of What Should We Do About Truth held at Carriageworks, Eveleigh last March 24, 2018 through Centre for Ideas/University of New South Wales. I watched him as a sole panelist during the ABC QandA hosted by Tony Jones discussing an overall theme of "Democracy in Action" held at ABC Ultimo last Sunday, March 25, 2018 as a personal guest of Rado Gatchalian of DU30 Correspondents Team Member and Founder of April30forDU30 Australia Global Movement on both events.

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Witold Gombrowicz - Twin sister

"Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom." ~Witold Gombrowicz

Phillip Adams - try again

"Unless you are willing to try, fail miserably, and try again, success won't happen." ~Phillip Adams

Emma Watson Quotes

"A grievous fault of 'feminism' is its failure and its outright refusal to discuss real issues one at a time in the context of real life. Frankly, 'feminism' is, in reality, little more than schoolyard whining writ large and somehow given centre stage in our society - to its near demise." ~The Grappler, YOUR LIFE CHOICES on Emma Watson's speech at UN on FEMINISM (September 2014)

"But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn." ~Emma Watson

“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” ~Emma Watson

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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - teacher

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others." ~Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

An Nasir Salahuddin - Victory

"Victory is changing the hearts of your opponents by gentleness and kindness." -An Nasir Salahuddin, Al-Ayyubi (1137-1193)

QUOTES ON HEROES and PATRIOTS

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." ~Joseph Campbell

"A hero's strength is measured by his heart." ~Michael Bolton

"Every man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person, whatever he says has an enhanced value." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the hero within us is revealed." ~Bob Riley

"Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal." ~Irena Sendlerowa

"It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” ~H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” ~Robert F. Kennedy

"Our enemy today may be faceless. But we are undaunted even in the face of the unknown. We are a race of people with a long history underlined by our heroes' bravery, strength and determination to be free." ~Mayor Sarah Duterte, on Philippine Independence Day, June 12, 2020

"Patriot is a person who serves his motherland. And motherland is first of all the nation." ~from Status Mind

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” ~Patrick Henry

“The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.” ~Joseph Campbell

“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.” ~George R. R. Martin

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” ~Douglas MacArthur


"The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.” ~George S. Patton Jr

"This world scarcely raise rare HEROES who died defending the Law of the Land and the Law above it. A man of principles is the enemy of those without." ~Selma Palacio Alara

"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us”. ~Winston Churchill


"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What sets heroes aside from the rest of humanity is the willingness to assume a personal responsibility for public problems.” ~Earl Babbie from Inspiration Line

"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.” ~Douglas MacArthur

"You can be a better hero when you live, prosper, and contribute to our society." ~Rado Gatchalian, Letter to the Filipino Youth

RELATED QUOTES

"A man is a patriot if his heart beats true to his country." ~Charles E. Jefferson

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” ~Billy Graham

“Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.” ~Meridel Le Sueur

“Live for something rather than die for nothing.” ~George Patton

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

"Patriotism knows no boundaries. True patriotism lingers in the heart. This is also a testament that there is no monopoly in loving our country." ~Rado Gatchalian, Letter to the Filipino Youth

VERSE

THE LONGEST DAY
(D-Day 6th June 1944)

Upon the 6th of June
Remember them with pride
Men from many nations
Fighting together side by side
Let us never forget
Their bravery and sacrifice
We may have our freedom
But they paid the price.

By John F. Connor

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QUOTES ON CANDLES AND CANDŁELIGHT

"A candle loses none of its light by lighting another."~Rumi

"A good lighthouse is not a candle flickering in the breeze, ready to go out at the slightest. of gust. It is a lighthouse, built on rock-solid foundation, able to handle the full impact of biggest waves and keep on shining in the dark." ~Sarah McCrum

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others." ~Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle." ~St. Francis of Assisi

“Always surround yourself with friends that have plenty of light in them. That way, you will always have candles around you when days are dark.” ~Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

"As a white candle

In a holy place

So is the beauty

Of an aged face."

~Joseph Campbell

"Being a candle is not easy in 

order to give light one must first burn." ~Rumi

    

"Better were the days when we used candles and kerosene lamps for our humble night light in the absence of the moon and stars." ~©Leah C. Dancel, July 2, 2021

"Don't feel bitter that people only remember you when they need you. Feel privileged that you're like a candle. You come to their mind when they're in the dark." ~My Cheery Corner

"Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.” ~Kamand Kojouri

"Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire." ~Rumi

"For what is the point of love if by lighting these candles our own flame loses its brightness?" ~Kamand Kojouri

"Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out." ~Katherine Dunham

"God knows that the fastest way to burn out is to try and burn the candle at both ends." ~Bob and Debbie Gass

"Great Leaders are like candles. They burn themselves up to give others light." ~Turkish Proverb

"How can I even light a single candle if someone blocks off the first step?” ~Gina Marinello-Sweeney, The Rose and the Sword

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” ~William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"I burn my candle at both ends, it may not last the night,
But, oh my foes and of my friends it gives a lovely light."
~Anon

"I know i cannot make the whole world BETTER or BRIGHTER, but at least I can light a candle and keep the darkness away from my OWN small CORNER and help others with the simple light I have." ~Sparkling Dew

"I may just be a little candle in your life. I may burn out and melt after a while. But I wish within the time my light touches your heart, even for a while." ~Anon

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it." ~Winston Churchill

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." ~Margaret Fuller

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." ~Chinese Proverb

“It's the flame of a single candle which will illuminate the darkest of souls.” ~Anthony T. Hincks

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." ~Buddha

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.” ~Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

‪"Life is like a candle being lit at birth. As it continue to light, it will weather storms and turbulence. Some will not bear it and some will till fully consumed." ~‬Larry P. Silva

“Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.” ~Osho, And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” ~Anne Frank

"Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle." ~Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The candle is the light of life that is constantly thriving to hang on and light up the darkness of life. (Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a candle in the wind. He was a fighter fighting the odds to survive. And he did so with incredible power to change the world.) Whether your life is long or short upon the earth, it is remarkable that our little flames burns on in spite of the wind, or the challenges of life.” ~Enock Maregesi

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled." ~Rumi

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." ~Buddha

"What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle." ~Rumi

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” ~George R.R. Martin

"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?" ~Ralph Marston

“When you have gone beyond thinking, and if you can still remain alert, aware, as if one is fast asleep but still alert—deep down at the very core of one’s being a lamp goes on burning, a small candle of light—then you will see your original face. And to see your original face is to be back in the Garden of Eden.” ~Osho, The Secret of Secrets

“Your smile lights up a room like a candle in the dark. I can still hear the song of your laughter.” ~Anon

VERSES

"I light a candle every night
Sending wishes to my angels above
Keep him safe this man I love
Watch over him and show your light
Let him know as I close my eyes to sleep
I am in his arms as I dream.
~Sandra Gibbs



“First, the thoughts are chosen,
then the prayers are spoken.
The candles are lit,
then the plea is submitted.
But soon after you move away,
there is wax;
melting, adulterating and braiding-
a new constellation up on your blanks.”
~Jasleen Kaur Gumber

CANDLELIGHT

"From candlelight to early bedtime, I read." ~Thomas Jefferson

"I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight." ~Jill Scott

"I don't think I am a traditional romantic who thinks about candlelight dinners and wonders if my husband is going to bring me flowers, though I'm delighted if he does. I'm more practical-minded. I find it incredibly romantic that my husband does the dishes." ~Nora Roberts

"I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it." ~Jeremy Renner

"Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been." ~George Eliot

"The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green." ~Francis Bacon

 “What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the power of the stars over our minds, if there were no night?” ~C. JoyBell C.

"Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting." ~Edgar Degas


RELATED QUOTES

"Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well." ~Mitch Albom

"... the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity." ~Bodhidharma

"The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame: The first one went closer and said, 'I know about love'. The second one touched the flame lightly with his wings and said, 'I know how love's fire can burn'. The third one threw himself into the heart of the flame and was consumed. He alone knows what true love is." ~Attar of Nishapur

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Gregory Saggi - aspirations

"Ideas, memories and noble aspirations outlasts property or a person's life. Invest in them by sharing them." ~Gregory Saggi

Herb Cohen - strength

"True strength often calls for the ability to sustain the tension without flight or fight." ~Herb Cohen

Prof. A.C. Grayling Quotes

“It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.” ~A.C. Grayling, The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

“The problem is not the poverty but the inequality.” ~Prof. A.C. Grayling

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Humane King Sutra - the full and the prosperous

"The prosperous inevitably decline, the full inevitably empty." ~Humane King Sutra (from the post of Dr. Ethel Pineda)

FEATURED QUOTE: Robert Clancy - the winds of love

"The delicate wings of an angel are made from the fabric of glistening hope and sewn together with the light of compassion. That’s why you are meant to glide on the winds of love." ~Robert Clancy

Wendell Phillips - Common sense

“Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.” ~Wendell Phillips

Paul Kalanithi Quotes

“All the idylls of youth: beauty manifest in lakes, mountains, people; richness in experience, conversation, friendships. Nights during a full moon, the light flooded the wilderness, so it was possible to hike without a headlamp. We would hit the trail at two A.M., summiting the nearest peak, Mount Tallac, just before sunrise, the clear, starry night reflected in the flat, still lakes spread below us. Snuggled together in sleeping bags at the peak, nearly ten thousand feet up, we weathered frigid blasts of wind with coffee someone had been thoughtful enough to bring. And then we would sit and watch as the first hint of sunlight, a light tinge of day blue, would leak out of the eastern horizon, slowly erasing the stars. The day sky would spread wide and high, until the first ray of the sun made an appearance. The morning commuters began to animate the distant South Lake Tahoe roads. But craning your head back, you could see the day’s blue darken halfway across the sky, and to the west, the night remained yet unconquered—pitch-black, stars in full glimmer, the full moon still pinned in the sky. To the east, the full light of day beamed toward you; to the west, night reigned with no hint of surrender. No philosopher can explain the sublime better than this, standing between day and night. It was as if this were the moment God said, “Let there be light!” You could not help but feel your specklike existence against the immensity of the mountain, the earth, the universe, and yet still feel your own two feet on the talus, reaffirming your presence amid the grandeur.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Death comes for all of us. For us, for our patients: it is our fate as living, breathing, metabolizing organisms. Most lives are lived with passivity toward death -- it's something that happens to you and those around you. But Jeff and I had trained for years to actively engage with death, to grapple with it, like Jacob with the angel, and, in so doing, to confront the meaning of a life. We had assumed an onerous yoke, that of mortal responsibility. Our patients' lives and identities may be in our hands, yet death always wins. Even if you are perfect, the world isn't. The secret is to know that the deck is stacked, that you will lose, that your hands or judgment will slip, and yet still struggle to win for your patients. You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present. Money, status, all the vanities the preacher of Ecclesiastes described, hold so little interest: a chasing after wind, indeed.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection. My brief forays into the formal ethics of analytic philosophy felt dry as a bone, missing the messiness and weight of real human life.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“We shall rise insensibly, and reach the tops of the everlasting hills, where the winds are cool and the sight is glorious.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

BIO

Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi (April 1, 1977 – March 9, 2015) was an Indian-American neurosurgeon and writer. His book When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir about his life and illness battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House in January 2016. It was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for multiple weeks.

Source: Goodreads

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Frank Borman - Exploration

"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit." ~Frank Borman (from Bernie Lamberz)