‪Dana Stewart Scott‬ - on learning

"Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later." ~‪Dana Stewart Scott‬

Von G. Keetch - obedience

"True obedience is giving ourselves entirely to Him and allowing Him to chart our course both in calm waters and in troubled ones." ~Von G. Keetch

Edward Jay Epstein - Journalism

"The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't witness it personally. They are entirely dependent on self-interested sources to supply their facts. Every part of the news-making process is defined by this relationship; everything is coloured by this reality." ~Edward Jay Epstein

David G. Pumphrey Quotes

"Change is painful. It involves giving up comfortable old ways and habits. It is often said that the only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn." ~David G. Pumphrey

"Change must be welcomed with an open mind and a willing heart. New leadership styles must be developed that can accommodate and facilitate the new ideas upon which progress depends." ~David G. Pumphrey

"Shakespeare shows us how different leadership styles favor different times, situations, and cultures. He leaves us with the challenge to make a judgment call on which leadership style best suits us and the environment in which we are operating." ~David G Pumphrey

"...slow down, listen more, consult widely, and create management structures that allow new ideas to flourish." ~David G. Pumphrey

"The fault is not in our times, but in ourselves." ~David G. Pumphrey

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Michelle Penn Quotes

"Flowers are a tool to enlightenment!" ~Michelle Penn

"Redirect your thoughts to a better feeling thought." ~Michele Penn

Source: Peace In The Present Moment

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Harry Bartlett - MUSIC

"Music has a powerful hold of most people, it can make you cry, reminisce or fill you with pure excitement and ecstasy! Sometimes the good vibes are so strong that all you want to do is jump up on stage and join the fun." ~Harry Bartlett

Jim Jarmusch - Authenticity

"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

Luc Godard - to and fro

“It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to."

Franco (Andy) Mabanta Quotes

"It will be important to do things for the right reasons — when you remember this, it becomes very easy to be brave." ~Franco (Andy) Mabanta

"Love her or hate her, ultimately, Mocha’s got three awesome things going for her: she’s a formidable human, she’s grown her brand to the point that both her power and influence are quantifiably indisputable, and she doesn’t care what you think." ~Franco Mabanta, October 9, 2017

"The biggest problem our country faces isn’t drugs or poverty or transport or environmental. The current biggest problem has been the same biggest problem for over half a century. CORRUPTION HAS RAPED AND BURIED THE FILIPINO." ~Franco Mabanta, MindaNation, August 12, 2017

ATTRIBUTED QUOTE

“Make sure your servant’s towel is bigger than your ego, as ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity…and pride is the burden of a foolish person.” ~Rick Rigsby

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Raven Fon - Poems

"Poems can describe something inside yourself you didn't know was there. They can transport you to a world you believe exists though you don't know why. They fill your soul with exactly the one thing it was missing." ~Raven Fon,

Robert Oxton Bolton - mind

"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses, it is an idea that possesses the mind!" ~Robert Oxton Bolton

John Bowlby Quotes

"Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair." ~John Bowlby

Photo credit to the owner 

"If a community values its children, it must cherish their parents." ~John Bowlby

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Aaron Siskind - Photography

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." ~Aaron Siskind

Stephanie Flaxman - creativity

"Creativity is not linear." ~Stephanie Flaxman

WE ARE COLLECTIVE Quotes

"No matter how worthless Vice-Presidents are, if you know how to play your cards right, it just might propel you to the Presidency when your time comes." ~We Are Collective, September 12, 2017

"There is equally noi need for us to have an opinion on everything. A lot of times, keeping your mouth shut and learning to observe in silence could be the smartest singular thing to do." ~WAC

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Mao Zedong - Different view

"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view." ~Mao Zedong

Alfred Kazin - on Writing

“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.” ~Alfred Kazin

Paulus Jovius - books

“They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.” ~Paulus Jovius (also known as Paolo Giovio, Italian Physician, Historian,)

Joanna Budwig Quotes

"Cancer cells are simply cells that lack the necessary at a molecular level (with the right photons and neutrons) in order to mature. Furthermore, she found that the red blood cells of cancer patients have no fatty layer, unlike the ones in healthy people." ~Joanna Budwig, Scientist

“I have the answer to cancer, but American doctors won’t listen. They come here and observe my methods and are impressed. Then they want to make a special deal so they can take it home and make a lot of money. I won’t do it, so I’m blackballed in every country.” ~Joanna Budwig

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Reyna Biddy - people

"Give people time. Give people space. Don’t beg anyone to stay. Let them roam. What’s meant for you will always be yours." ~Reyna Biddy

Caroline Dancel-Garcia Quotes

‪"Appreciate nature with child's innocence and love for Mother Nature." ~Caroline Dancel- Garcia‬

‪"Nature at its best becomes a masterpiece with a beautiful smile from a child." ~Caroline Dancel-Garcia‬

‪"Nature falls in love all over again‬
‪With a beautiful smile from a child."‬
‪~Caroline Dancel-Garcia‬

"Patience is the key to the wonders of life. Treasure it and try not to lose it because when or if you do, the beauty of life is lost forever. Plant the seed of patience in your heart. Nourish it. It will blossom to show you the wonders of life." ~Caroline Dancel- Garcia

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MANUEL VALDEZ II Quotes

‪"Distance is better than disrespect." ~Valdez Butchii

"Envy poisons your soul." ~Valdez Butchii 

"Everyone in this world is a leaf  who gives life to a tree and falls off after its term." ~Valdez Butchii

"Everything is an illusion. Everything we see,hear, feel, smell are illusions which we humans defined and created are illusions." ~Valdez Butchii

"Everything in this world remains the same. We transform from our present existence to another but every bit of our composition remains but what we don't know is, do we still have conciousness after we leave our earthly existence?" ~Manuel Valdez (Butchii)‬

‪"Goals and dreams may not be realized. But the effort that is that matters." ~Manuel Valdez (Valdez Butchii)

"Good or bad those people were part of our life and shaped us through the years.. they made as a better human being." ~Manuel Valdez (Valdez Butchii)

"Many people have been through hell in their lives and yet still kind and loving towards other human beings." ~Manuel Valdez

"Self Control is strength.
Right Thought is mastery.
Calmness is Power."
‪~Valdez Butchii ‬

"Sometimes a leader is misunderstood.. But I still keep on believing and trusting him (PRRD) for the sake of the Motherland.." ~Manuel Valdez, 2018

"‬Sometimes our lives have to be completely shaken up, changed and rearranged to relocate us to the place we are meant to be." ~Manuel Valdez (via Valdez Butchii)

‪"The CBCP will always demonize and destabilize an administration that will not support their vested interests." ~Valdez Butchii, August 4, 2019‬

"We can never attain change or reforms if our leaders will remain politicians when they work." ~Butch Valdez, 31 August 2017

"Winning an argument doesn't mean your morally right." ~Valdez Butchii

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James Randi - difference

"There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out." ~James Randi

Suzuki Roshi

"Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem." ~Suzuki Roshi

YESU BEN Quotes

"A love arrow up in the air, falling on Elsie's dark sweet hair." ~Yesu Ben

"A transitional (revolutionary) government towards the adoption of a federal government is extra-constitutional and broader than Martial Law." ~Yesu Ben, 30 August 2017

"Age allows us to realize that the ride was near over but we cannot forget to keep enjoying it. We ought to die with a big "yey! what a ride it was!", beer on one hand, and a lady's embrace on the other. Life is good but why people get too attached to wealth, credentials, a good physique is all but shallow to me. Let us die with a totally broken body, happy and our basket filled with wisdom and love." ~Yesu Ben,  on Destiny in Haiku @Leah C. Dancel Copyright@2021

‪"At end of day, we take off this garment and don one for rest. The next day, we put on new clothes ready for the next round of lessons. As Lord Tennyson said 'Death is a laughable impossibility'". ~‬Yesu Ben , January 8, 2020

"Blessed are those few who see what they see, and feel what they feel, and are given the chance to appreciate the being-ness of it all. For the entirety will never be complete when even the smallest ant cannot complete the chain that assures the next step towards our becoming. We must therefore strive to come to the aid of the universe and to express fearlessly our stand which is to assure that evolution is allowed to occur naturally in all of us." ~Yesu Ben,  September 1, 2018 on Intimacy with Mother Nature 

"But gentle ways  are slow,

and indeed curb the fire

of strong intentions 

propelled by sharp contentions."

~Yesu Ben, August 31, 2017

"Death forces us to face ourselves to help us sieve out what is unwanted in our characters." ~Yesu Ben 

"Each day finds you a better person than the one from yesterday. Each day, each heartbeat, each batting of the eye, each lesson learned, builds character by which you are measured." ~Yesu Ben

"Each man has a path that he must tread. It is important that he walks through it alone. In this pathless land of a million pathways, we seek which one will bring us there." ~Yesu Ben

"Everyday is perfect because each living day gives us the opportunity to grow." ~Yesu Ben 

"I admire women who handwash." ~Yesu Ben,  August 13, 2017

"I remember the nice smell of clothes drying under the sun...it gives me some sentimental feeling." ~Yesu Ben,  August 13, 2017

"It is in the silent wisdom of little things that fear is made distant." ~Yesu Ben on Finding My Heart June 7, 2021

"It is never easy to attain that (matriarch) level which often, through life, is resisted for man is ever afraid of change. But you've done it, congrats, you have earned enough points to be considered a wizened person." ~Yesu Ben on my #FPB Model Entry, July 21, 2021

"Life brings us to different directions for different reasons which are all necessary. Accept that you drifted apart for a good reason." ~Yesu Ben, 5 October 2018

"Most of us are misunderstood but often by ourselves. It doesn't really matter how they see us. What matters is how we see ourselves," ~Yesu Ben, June 29, 2021

"‪Moving forward is not always that easily to some people - some who struggle lifelong to truly find themselves...we all are manacled to some psychological, mental or emotional attachment, some conditioning, some bad past choice, culture, some addiction, some social situation, culture, perhaps even to something as black as revenge. or something as flimsy as cigarettes." ~‬Yesu Ben

"Mr. Alejandrino is asking us to prepare for a revolution that is big, and ripe and imminent. It is not a thing of whim but a clamoring from the people themselves - clamoring that's began a long time ago. We need to psyche ourselves up." ~YESU BEN, August 2017

"My mother handwashed clothes until her fingers no longer could and that was when she started to use coin laundry. I like childhood memories of playing around the clothesline area." ~Yesu Ben,  #childhood_nostalgia, #handwashing, August 13, 2017

"Only Pain is the True Poetry for pain is the lot of us humans." ~Yesu Ben 

"Our garden can still bloom beautiful flowers that will delight everyone. I submit to this dream and swear to help out in ways that i can." ~Yesu Ben

"Peace is the prerequisite to happiness and health." ~Yesu Ben 

"Poets are cursed to be eternally lost souls, but that is only until by their pen writ the  perfect poem." ~Yesu Ben 

"Self respect, integrity and self worth fundamentally serve as our standard in our outlook on life." ~Yesu Ben, March 24, 2018 comment related to TAPANG at MALASAKIT

"She deeply recognizes the strengths of her own humanity and in doing so deeply recognizes as well the ambitions and the sense of purpose that make us human." ~Yesu Ben on Finding My Heart's author Maria Evelyn Quilla-Soleta

"There are a lot of good things about ageing - I think that there are more good things about it than youth. For wisdom is as precious as gold and often, only aged people are allowed to have it." ~Yesu Ben

"We may have to face the wind on our faces, for the wind shapes us and pain re-creates us." ~Yesu Ben

"We need faith, hard work and dedication towards the fulfillment of the Filipino dream." ~Yesu Ben

ATTRIBUTES

“A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.” ~George RR Martin

"Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair." ~John Bowlby

‪"Racism will never end as long as white cars are stil using black tyres. Racism will never end if people still use black to symbolise bad luck and white for peace. Racism will never end if people still wear white clothes to weddings and black clothes to funerals. Racism will never end as long as those who don't pay their bills are blacklisted not white listed. Even when playing Pool, You haven't won until you've sunk the black ball, and the white ball must remain on the table. But I don't care, as long as I'm still using white toilet paper to wipe my black ass I'm happy." ~Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe President‬

“The poignant wish for a tranquil life will find no sanctuary in today’s world. We live in a revolutionary era. It is an era of swift, violent, often disruptive change, and rather than lament this vainly, we have to decide whether we should be the masters or victims of change.” ~President Ferdinand E. Marcos, Today’s Revolution: Democracy, 1971.

"The Westminster Parliamentary System is the way to go...it focuses on a change in political culture from idealisation of personalities to a scrutiny of platforms and manifestos." ~Fr. Rannie Aquino (from Yesu Ben)

"We are not the clothes that we wear, nor the credentials that we earn, nor the reputation that we build. Neither are we this body that we pamper with food, exercise and perfume and adorn with jewelry and expensive bling-blings. Nor are we what we feel, the emotions that try to take control our reactions. Nor are we our thoughts nor our mind and mental faculties - these things are not us. Nor are we the causal body which is only an accumulation of Karmic credits and debits that shape our future bodies, here or in the next life. We are not this - this physical self because this physical self is temporary. We are the eternal rider that mounts on chariot after chariot. We are not the print but the words of the book. This physical aspect is only our Earth clothes which we take off when night has arrived so that we can don on new ones come the morning after." ~Yesu Ben 

"When we look at life as one thing fed to us or forced upon us, then death becomes a burden. But when we see that we are here to contribute, then we will see that the person who leaves us, no matter how short a stint he's had with us, like a 4-day old baby who died, came here to help us further our journey. His role gave him a springboard or a stepping stone to bring him come closer to his goal as well. We helped him as he helped us. With that in mind, we come to a spirit of gratitude rather than to a feeling of deprivation." ~Yesu Ben,  August 26, 2020

VERSE

KUBLA KHAN

"‪And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far ‬
‪Ancestral voices prophesying war! ‬
‪The shadow of the dome of pleasure ‬
‪Floated midway on the waves; ‬
‪Where was heard the mingled measure ‬
‪From the fountain and the caves. ‬
‪It was a miracle of rare device, ‬
‪A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!"‬

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ON WINTER

"Long grey days of standstill, days of desolate frost;
Winter childbirths gloomiest thoughts, of loved ones we have lost.
Why heavy feelings come – why linger with the snow;
Why when there's no sun solacing, why when the sprouts can’t grow.
This stretches on and on, this sea of white and grey;
Its beauty simply is not real, like mem’ry dimmed away."

By Yesu Ben

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