Macabangkit B. Lanto - Fashion statement

“Sometimes people wear their attire to make a statement.” ~Macabangkit B. Lanto, Daily Tribune, October 9, 2019

Wes Angelozzi - Instantly empowered

"Go and love someone as they are. And watch quickly how they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered." ~Wes Angelozzi

Gail Borden - Keep trying

"I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded." ~Gail Borden

ELON MUSK Quotes

PHOTOS: CTTO

"History tells us that powerful people come from powerful places.  History was wrong. Powerful people make places powerful." ~Elon Musk 

"I design for the future, but this (father's illness) has shaken my foundation." ~Elon Musk 

"I want no pay, no awards, no recognition or fancy title.  I just want America to reach greater heights." ~Elon Musk 

“If you’re not willing to fail, you’re not ready to change the world. Pressure doesn’t destroy you—it shapes you.” ~Elon Musk

"It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary." ~Elon Musk, DOGE

"One thing I learned from my PayPal days is that those who were the loudest and complained the most were typically the fraudsters." ~Elon Musk

[The loudest voices are not always the most truthful.]

[Truth is quiet. Deception is loud.]

"There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure."  ~Elon Musk

"Those who want power are the ones who least deserve it." ~Elon Musk 

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." ~Elon Musk

“You could hate my guts, you could not trust me, it is irrelevant. The rocket track record speaks for itself.” ~Elon Musk

From X ( formerly Twitter)

His talk is smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart; his words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords. Psalms 55:21 NIV

R.M. DRAKE Quotes

"I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl and my angels branch and soar. I've died within myself and lived a thousand different lives. I too fight the same war and I too am drowning in the puddles of self-consciousness this world created." ~R.M. Drake

"The hardest good-byes are the ones you don't see coming. The ones you don't plan. Or could ever imagine happening. Like one day you're both together. And little do you both know that today will be your last day spent. Sometimes there is nothing sadder than that." ~R.M. Drake

Tikkun Acts of Loving Kindness Quotes

"Even the smallest act of kindness can bring the light of hope into someone's life." ~Tikkun Acts of Loving Kindness 

"How you give is as important as what you give. Give from your heart." ~from Tikkun Acts of Loving Kindness

"Human Beings grow best with encouragement and love." ~Tikkun Acts of Loving Kindness

"Teach your kids by example. Be caring and open minded. Be considerate and generous. And always be thankful." ~Tikkun Acts of Kindness

"The seeds of kindness you plant today will bloom in the hearts of those you touched forever." ~from Tikkun Acts of Loving Kindness

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Karen Draper - Brain and Heart

"Finding your writer's brain is half of it. Finding your writer's heart is all of it." ~Karen Draper

‪Thomas Kuegler‬ - Happiness

"How rich a country is has nothing to do with happiness."‪ ~Thomas Kuegler, Finding Tom FB Meme‬

Ann Richardson - Journey

"We cannot change the outcome, but we can affect the journey." ~Ann Richardson

Malcolm Conlan - Making Filipinos Proud

"Bringing the Philippines to the forefront of the Asian Stage is an investment, making Filipinos proud." ~Malcolm Conlan, on Southeast Asian Games, December 1, 2019

"President Duterte, through bowing and kissing the ground, shows that he is still a humble servant of the people. Such humility." ~Malcolm Conlan, August 31, 2020

CLARO GANAC Quotes

"Countless stories of our Filipino engineers and construction professionals who have worked in the Middle East all proclaim a race that has worked with industry, talent and dignity." ~Claro Ganac

"Let us stop belittling ourselves, just because you see a questionable survey of this or that organization. Let us measure our own people with kinder hearts and thoughtful minds, instead of just accepting blindly the judgment of others." ~Claro Ganac

" Lockdowns are economic poison pills." ~Claro Ganac

‪"Love is like water, it needs to flow outside of the self. But people possess the gift of transference, of empathy and sublimating personal love to love for the poor and downtrodden. When they sublimate, transcend personal need for affection and move to higher levels of personal love for humanity, then there will never be grief. And love becomes noble and great." ~‬Claro Ganac

"Many of our countrymen have been fooled, deceived by corrupt and greedy politicians. That doesn't necessarily make them stupid. It just meant their trust has been misplaced." ~Claro Ganac

"They call us weak because we still manage to smile even in the face of insults and adversities. I call that strength because standing one's ground, with inner faith, is power. … They say we have low IQ. IQ is just an imperfect construct to measure and label our intelligence, our capability. I have seen Filipinos, educated in public schools that we routinely assume to have bad instruction and poor facilities, effortlessly work and master in English, with that American twang. In fact, there are more than a million of them working there." ~Claro Ganac

"The essence of science is to suspend judgment until research investigation can be conducted for hypothesis testing and analysis.... Until then -- no matter what one's stand is and how strong one holds and defends his beliefs -- everything is just an opinion." ~Claro Ganac, April 23, 2021

"True. I am tired of supposedly intelligent men and women calling the Filipino people stupid, low IQ, weak, worthless and all other offensive terms." ~Claro Ganac

‪"We are everything, and also nothing. ‬We are who we are, and not who others think who we are.‬ We can love everyone, and yet no one will love us in our very essence. Our only true possession is the present moment we face. And yet we cannot keep it but let it go." ~‬Claro Ganac (EPHEMERAL)

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Estee Lauder - Success

"I never dreamed of success, I worked for it." ~Estee Lauder

Natsume Sōseki - The price we pay

"I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your insults in the future. I bear with my loneliness now, in order to avoid greater loneliness in the years ahead. You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves." ~Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

Yolanda Hadid - Friendship

"I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side." ~Yolanda Hadid

George Dillon - Wordless wind

"It is the wordless wind that knows where every kind of beauty goes. And if you lose love in the end, say it was taken by the wind." ~George Dillon

Brad Meltzer - Depends on the day

"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day." ~Brad Meltzer

Ayari Naygnam Quotes

"If the ears of your soul love the soothing melody of gently whizzing winds through the leaves of trees in the jungle, if you understand the language of the flowers, if the eyes of your heart see and appreciate the beauty of the rainbows of corals in our seas and oceans, Gina Lopez is your sister by heart and soul." ~Ayari Naygnam

GREED
By Ayari Naygnam

Greed is when one hoards in a day what he needs 7 times 77 times of his lifetime:
Because man fears shortage in food he invented fertilizers to harvest in a few years the produce of a lifetime; but the toxins inside the fertilizers eventually started killing the land and will ultimately kill the crops and trees that give food to man; by flood, the toxins also wash out to oceans and seas and will also kill the fish.

Because of overproduction, actually dislocation where a part of the earth has oversupply while others lack, and fear the produce will rot man invented preservatives; so, man does not hunger but as he eats poisons he is dying softly little by little.

Because man fears overpopulation will result to shortage of foods he deforested the mountains and jungles, invited homesteaders to till the land to avert hunger; but the deforestation is destroying watersheds that hold rainwater causing huge floods that destroy agriculture.

Looking at all these one can easily see only few benefit while many suffer. It is GREED that drives man to do those things not the fear of hunger.

September 30, 2019

Source: FB

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Attar of Nishapur. - True Love

"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

Lev Grossman - Look at your life

"For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever." ~Lev Grossman

Rob Siltanen - Change the world

“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” ~Rob Siltanen

Maduro Ash - Nothing to lose

"Threats don't work with the person who's got nothing to lose." ~Maduro Ash

Jacque Fresco - Humanity

"Armies are created to protect the system, not the people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war." ~Jacque Fresco

Wes Moore - Impermanence

"Life’s impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It’s what shapes our time here. It’s what makes it so important that not a single moment be wasted." ~Wes Moore

Emma Donoghue - Silence

"Because your soul must be lonely. That silence you heard, when you tried to pray - that’s the sound of God listening." ~Emma Donoghue

John Tillman - Authority

"Consensus and appeals to authority are not just unscientific, but anti-scientific." ~John Tillman