Elizabeth Glaser - HONESTY

"Life has taught me that I have nothing to lose by being honest." ~Elizabeth Glaser, 1947-1994

Margaret Deland - satisfaction

"One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death." ~Margaret Deland

Stuart Avery Gold Quotation

"Through meditation you discover that while it is the brain that moves the body, it is the mind that moves the world." ~Stuart Avery Gold

"To flourish, know your fears. To truly flourish, rid yourself of your fears." ~Stuart Avery Gold.

"You must do in order to master the circumstances of life, or risk having the circumstances of life master you." ~Stuart Avery Gold

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A THOUGHT TO PONDER: Forgive

"Forgiveness is the choice that leads to peace. Today forgive, not because others say it’s the right thing to do, but because as God’s creation, you are worthy of peace." ~James Blanchard Cisneros

Quotes from Nutura Organic

"When your child tells you about friends, school, or the life story of the snail they just found, listen closely, ask questions, and follow up on things later on. This shows that you are interested and they can trust you - which will be important for the big stuff later in life." ~Nutura Organic

Chef Jose Andres Quotes

"As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people." ~Jose Andres

"Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story." ~Jose Andres

"There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them." ~Jose Andres

"What if every lawn was transformed into a farm instead of expensive upkeep of grass." ~Chef Jose Andres

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Thomas Babington Macaulay - a king without desire

"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read." ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

Krista Tippett Quotes

"Become wiser by learning to hold transformative conversations, ask generous questions and listen with presence." ~Krista Tippett, Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and host of On Being (on art of conversation)

"Kindness is a mist edifying form of instant gratification." ~Krista Tippett

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John Paul Warren - move that transforms

"Faith move mountains. Love transforms hearts." ~John Paul Warren

From OUR DAILY BREAD - help to make time

"Dear Lord, as I look around at those who share this life with me, help me to make time to spend with them—for encouragement, challenge, and perhaps just plain conversation." ~Our Daily Bread

Janet S. Braza Quotes

"Everybody here complains about my hair's highlights. They told me that it makes me older and lousy. Oh, people how can a gardener be old that kicks with shovels and forks? I tell you, the reaping I sowed is sweet as it keeps my blood pumping in great vigor. Kalabaw lang ang tumatanda." ~Janet S. Braza

"Even the perennial grasses are as fresh as the youngs when dewdrops kiss their tiny pores." ~Janet S. Braza

"One good thing there's a sweet true embrace, when we're gone we can not reciprocate the feeling anymore." ~Janet Braza, 29 September 2016

"Politics is now a jungle where all kinds of beast live." ~Janet S. Braza

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POSITIVE THOUGHT: beauty of life

"‪Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Egor Kraft - colours of dream

“Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult as trying to belive that there is enough love & compassion in the world so every human can feel happiness.” ~Egor Kraft

HW Becker - love is alive

"Shine brightly and even the hardest heart will notice that love is alive in you." ~HW Becker

John Adair - Leaders

"Leaders who know their strengths and weaknesses as leaders are likely to be far more effective that the ones who remain blind to them. They are also on the road to humility--that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings." ~John Adair

Alda Merini - open book

"Every wrinkle on our faces is a story lived with courage, pride, smile, cry, love. I'm like the words of an open book, peeled by time, before the eyes of the world." ~Alda Merini

Dr. John Ortiz Teope Quotes

"Another Lesson Learned: Pretending to be somebody is so difficult to do, coz at the end you’re scam can be easily discovered.But pretending to be nobody is so easy, for the reason that the silent and humble nobody might be the great somebody which is greatly powerful than anybody." ~Dr. John Ortiz Teope, PhD,EdD,DM,DES

“I am an advocate Federalism and I like to see the Philippines under a federal system of government. But, the transition from a Unitary to a Federal form is not a walk by the park. There is a necessity to properly educate the Filipinos regarding its advantages and disadvantages. Coz, if it would not happen and people would just accept Federalism based on the bandwagon. One thing for sure there will be so many resistances on the time of its transition and operationalization.” ~Dr. John Ortiz Teope, PhD,EdD,DM,DES (National President, 1st Philippine Pro-Democracy Foundation)

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Chellene Lianna - what God intends you to be

"You live and learn and become wiser and stronger and more the person God intends you to be if you choose that path. No one can or should take your dream away." ~Chellene Lianna

Auliq Ice - old-fashioned

“Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.” ~ Auliq Ice

A THOUGHT TO PONDER: From NATIVE AMERICANS

"Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes so that when my life fades as the fading sunset, my spirit can come to you without shame." ~Native American Quote from Native Americans FB meme

Ken Kersey - seeds

"You can count the seeds in the apple, but not the apples in the seed." ~Ken Kersey

Sarah Dressen - town on a map

"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go." ~Sarah Dressen

John Forbes Nash - mysterious equation

"I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found." ~John Forbes Nash

Senator Richard Gordon Quotes

“Duterte is clever and unorthodox in his foreign policy. He obviously made other world leaders listen and make things happen.” ~Senator Richard Gordon (November 2018)

“He was speaking to the whole world, an entire audience of the world, and people are looking at him. And the words the world wanted to hear — rule of law, dispatch in business, lack of corruption, justice for all men — was spoken in well crafted language for the high and low." ~Senator Richard Gordon on Pres RR Duterte's Inaugural Speech, 30 June 2016 (when reached by phone.)

"If we want our country to succeed, we need our President to succeed." ~Senator Gordon on Pres. RR Duterte, December 2016

"Malaki ang obligasyon ng gobyerno sa taumbayan. Pero higit na mas malaki ang obligasyon ng magulang sa kanilang mga anak." ~Dick Gordon on PTA (Parents Teachers Association

"The nation will RISE when its VALUES are allowed to LEAD."  ~Dick Gordon on A.  Eala 

"There is utter lack of professionalism. Who would now testify? Tao ang tunay na talo. Binilad niyo yung tao. Inimbita niyo. Pinatay niyo. Ninakawan tayong lahat ng katarungan. Aanhin pa ang damo kung patay na ang kabayo." ~Dick Gordon, On the death of Mayor Espinosa (2016)

"We need to concentrate less on what he says and focus more on what he does.” ~Sen. Dick Gordon on President Duterte , 27 July 2017

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Presidential INAUGURATION SPEECH of President Rodrigo R Duterte

Author's Note:

A very special feature I wholeheartedly give place in my Golden Thoughts blog of the newly sworn President of the Philippines' Inaugural Speech which took place in Malacanang Manila Philippines yesterday, 30 June 2016. Every line offers great inspiration not only to the people of my country of birth, but to the world at large as well.

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"President Fidel Ramos, sir, salamat po sa tulong mo making me President; President Joseph Ejercito Estrada; Senate President Franklin Drilon and the members of the Senate; Speaker Feliciano Belmonte and the members of the House of Representatives; Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court; His Excellency Guiseppe Pinto and the members of the Diplomatic Corps; incoming members of the Cabinet; fellow workers in government; my fellow countrymen. [applause]

No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.

It is the people from whom democratic governments draw strength and this administration is no exception. That is why we have to listen to the murmurings of the people, feel their pulse, supply their needs and fortify their faith and trust in us whom they elected to public office. [applause]

There are many amongst us who advance the assessment that the problems that bedevil our country today which need to be addressed with urgency, are corruption, both in the high and low echelons of government, criminality in the streets, and the rampant sale of illegal drugs in all strata of Philippine society and the breakdown of law and order. True, but not absolutely so. For I see these ills as mere symptoms of a virulent social disease that creeps and cuts into the moral fiber of Philippine society. I sense a problem deeper and more serious than any of those mentioned or all of them put together. But of course, it is not to say that we will ignore them because they have to be stopped by all means that the law allows.

Erosion of faith and trust in government – that is the real problem that confronts us. Resulting therefrom, I see the erosion of the people’s trust in our country’s leaders; the erosion of faith in our judicial system; the erosion of confidence in the capacity of our public servants to make the people’s lives better, safer and healthier. [applause]

Indeed ours is a problem that dampens the human spirit. But all is not lost.
I know that there are those who do not approve of my methods of fighting criminality, the sale and use of illegal drugs and corruption. They say that my methods are unorthodox and verge on the illegal. In response let me say this:
I have seen how corruption bled the government of funds, which were allocated for the use in uplifting the poor from the mire that they are in.

I have seen how illegal drugs destroyed individuals and ruined family relationships.
I have seen how criminality, by means all foul, snatched from the innocent and the unsuspecting, the years and years of accumulated savings. Years of toil and then, suddenly, they are back to where they started.

Look at this from that perspective and tell me that I am wrong.
In this fight, I ask Congress and the Commission on Human Rights and all others who are similarly situated to allow us a level of governance that is consistent to our mandate. The fight will be relentless and it will be sustained. [applause]

As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not. [applause]

My adherence to due process and the rule of law is uncompromising.[applause]

You mind your work and I will mind mine. [applause and cheers]

“Malasakit;” “Tunay na Pagbabago; Tinud-anay (real) nga Kausaban(change)” [applause]

– these are words which catapulted me to the presidency. These slogans were conceptualized not for the sole purpose of securing the votes of the electorate. “Tinud-anay nga kabag-uhan (real change). Mao kana ang tumong sa atong pang-gobyerno (this is the direction of our government).” [applause]

Far from that. These were battle cries articulated by me in behalf of the people hungry for genuine and meaningful change. But the change, if it is to be permanent and significant, must start with us and in us. [applause]

To borrow the language of F. Sionil Jose, we have become our own worst enemies. And we must have the courage and the will to change ourselves.
Love of country, subordination of personal interests to the common good, concern and care for the helpless and the impoverished – these are among the lost and faded values that we seek to recover and revitalize as we commence our journey towards a better Philippines. [applause]

The ride will be rough. But come and join me just the same. Together, shoulder to shoulder, let us take the first wobbly steps in this quest.
There are two quotations from revered figures that shall serve as the foundation upon which this administration shall be built.

“The test of government is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide for those who have little.”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
[applause]

And from (Abraham) Lincoln I draw this expression:

“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong; You cannot help the poor by discouraging the rich; You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer; You cannot further the brotherhood by inciting class hatred among men.”
[applause]

My economic and financial, political policies are contained in those quotations, though couched in general terms. Read between the lines. I need not go into specifics now. They shall be supplied to you in due time.
However, there are certain policies and specifics of which cannot wait for tomorrow to be announced.

Therefore, I direct all department secretaries and the heads of agencies to reduce requirements and the processing time of all applications, [applause] from the submission to the release. I order all department secretaries and heads of agencies to remove redundant requirements and compliance with one department or agency, shall be accepted as sufficient for all. [applause]

I order all department secretaries and heads of agencies to refrain from changing and bending the rules government contracts, transactions and projects already approved and awaiting implementation. [applause]

Changing the rules when the game is on-going is wrong.
I abhor secrecy and instead advocate transparency [applause]

in all government contracts, projects and business transactions from submission of proposals to negotiation to perfection and finally, to consummation.
Do them and we will work together. [applause]

Do not do them, we will part sooner than later. [applause]

On the international front and community of nations, let me reiterate that the Republic of the Philippines will honor treaties and international obligations. [applause]

On the domestic front, my administration is committed to implement all signed peace agreements in step with constitutional and legal reforms.
I am elated by the expression of unity among our Moro brothers and leaders, and the response of everyone else to my call for peace.
I look forward to the participation of all other stakeholders, particularly our indigenous peoples, to ensure inclusivity in the peace process. [applause]

Let me remind in the end of this talk, that I was elected to the presidency to serve the entire country. I was not elected to serve the interests of any one person or any group or any one class. I serve every one and not only one. [applause]

That is why I have adapted as an article of faith, the following lines written by someone whose name I could no longer recall. He said:
“I have no friends to serve, I have no enemies to harm.” [applause]

Prescinding therefrom, I now ask everyone, and I mean everyone, to join me as we embark on this crusade for a better and brighter tomorrow.

But before I end, let me express the nations, on behalf of the people, our condolences to the Republic of Turkey of what has happened in the place. We offer our deepest condolences.

Why am I here? Hindi kasali ito diyan. [laughs] The past tense was, I am here because I love my country and I love the people of the Philippines. I am here, why? Because I am ready to start my work for the nation. [applause]

Thank you and good afternoon.

—From Presidential News Desk

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