“Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.”
— John L. Motley
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I would like to temporarily use my blog to show you the current situation here in the Philippines after being hit by supertyphoon Haiyan, or locally named Yolanda.
(Survivors who lost their homes use a Jeepney public bus as shelter.)
Let us offer a moment of silence and prayer for the victims of the typhoon Haiyan.
In less than a month, the central Philippines has suffered two major catastrophes: a magnitude 7.2 earthquake and now typhoon Haiyan, considered as strongest typhoons in history.
The aftermath of the typhoon is heartbreaking, destroying homes, flattening villages and leaving dead bodies scattered on the street. Food and water sources are scarce since relief operations are just starting to arrive but is still not sufficient for all the survivors. Because of this, others are forced to loot on establishments and private homes to have their supply of food to survive the coming days.
(A father looks at his daughter’s body inside a chapel.)
The Filipino spirit is waterproof, we often remind to ourselves during moments like this. But the Philippines needs all the support it can get to help our countrymen. Your help is greatly appreciated: either reaching to others on how to help the Haiyan victims, supporting donation drives near your place or by your simple prayer and concern.
(A survivor holds a statue of Jesus Christ, her only saved belonging, after the typhoon.)
Image source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/27-devastating-images-from-typhoon-haiyans-destruction
“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
— Dave Grohl
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint”, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
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“There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroad, afraid, confused, without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. Of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back.”
— One Tree Hill
“The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.”
— Aldous Huxley
“You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat Pray Love’
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
— Rumi
“People create… little systems of explanation. Things that are not really true, but are easier to digest than the intricacies of reality.”
— Paul Hornschemeier, ‘Mother, Come Home’
“People create… little systems of explanation. Things that are not really true, but are easier to digest than the intricacies of reality.”
— Paul Hornschemeier, ‘Mother, Come Home’
“Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.”
— W. H. Auden
“I don’t blame you for being you, but you can’t blame me for hating it.”
— Fall Out Boy
“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
— François De La Rochefoucauld
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
— William James
“Do not chase people. Be you and do your own thing and work hard. The right people who belong in your life will come to you, and stay.”
— Wu Tang
“Be confident. BE compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.”
— Lauren Jauregui
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
— Kurt Cobain
“You are the only person who is in charge of how you feel about yourself. Nobody else can possibly do that. You get to decide if you believe you are beautiful or not, and nobody can take it away from you. If someone suggests that you aren’t beautiful, you can consider how sad it is that they have such a limited view of beauty. You can consider how unfortunate it is that they have such an exaggerated sense of self-importance that they think you should care about what they think. You can also choose to realize that it has nothing at all to do with your beauty and everything to do with their limitations.”
— Ragen Chastain
“What would be the point of living if we didn’t let life change us.”
— Downton Abbey
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”
— Mark Twain
“Extreme situations don’t change us, they reveal us. But the worst is when we can’t even see what we’ve allowed ourselves to become – or rather, we can’t see what parts of ourselves we’ve allowed to grow out of control. It can happen to anyone.”
— Jay-Z
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
— Oscar Wilde
“We are alive and still hoping something greater will happen.”
— Rakishi
“Realize you can be happy this moment for no reason. Otherwise, you eternally depend on conditions for happiness. Unconscious of this moment, you remain a victim of circumstances.”
— Arthur D. Saftlass
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“If you correct your mind,the rest of your life will fall into place.”
— Lao Tzu
Thank you for all the support you have shown for my blog, however because of academic-related matters I need to take a short break to settle my enrollment and first week of classes.
Sorry, but I will be back in a while.
“To be somebody, you must last.”
— Ruth Gordon
“Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Look, I’m going to find a way to be happy, and I’d really love to be happy with you, but if I can’t be happy with you, then I’ll find a way to be happy without you.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“The good fight is the one we fight because our heart asks it of us.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
“There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness.”
— Neil Gaiman
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
— Aldous Huxley