47 quotes found
“Memory is all that matters in the end”
“No story is complete until it is written.”
“Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.”
“The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world.”
“The time we were together, we were the best we can be for each other.”
“A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.”
“Ive always wondered why women are expected to deny their true age. Why? To be a woman of 50 and up is a badge of triumpha hard-earned certificate that says you survived the shallowness, the violenc...”
“Guess life is really a road marked by crossroads. It's not the long and winding stretches that will hurt you the most. It's the crossroads. You make a bad choice and it's a tumble and a rumble befo...”
“To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy.”
“Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.”
“I once stood on a road and found I had no friends. And I was glad. Better to have no friends than to have people claim they were your friends when they were not. It is a source of strength to come ...”
“I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.”
“Fathers are the future's keepers, as it was in the beginning when the only begotten Son became Father to Man and the Great Circle of Father to Son; Son to Father began.”
“In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest in the end.”
“Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough to speak the truth; that it is ...”
“In the end, history proved the Jews correct. Across time and place, memory lives on the tenacity of a peoples resolve never to forgetnot just with wordsbut with an endless stream of concrete action...”
“The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.”
“You grieve at first. And then slowly, with the yawning of the years, the disappeared gets scraped from your memory, the way your flesh can be peeled from your limbs. It's very harsh and extremely p...”
“Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried in grief if that is what it takes to restore the imbalance you have wrought unt...”
“There are places I cannot visit. Places of unbearable sadness, grief, mourning. They say places are made by people. I say places are defined by the memories they conjurethe lunge of a curse, a shar...”
“Kindness is fates currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.”
“Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.”
“Hate is a very strong, pure emotion to be wasted on people you don't care about.”
“They say you start weaving clearer, sharper memories after you've been to a place at least twice. Because then the reflection is more of validation. Let the rush come to you and let your senses be ...”