Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Saturday, September 3, 2011

The Things I Supposedly Learned about LIFE

I didn't wrote this one. I randomly read it somewhere on somewhere else's blog. But this is what somehow speaks my heart lately and some that comes up to my realization lately.. More lately's.

I've learned that....

You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is to be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them. 


No matter how much I care, some people just don't care back. And it's not the end of the world.


It takes years to build up trust and only seconds to destroy it.


It's not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts.


You shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do, but to the best you can do.


It's not what happens to people, it's what they do about it.


No matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.


You should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.


You can keep going long after you think you can't.


Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.


There are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.


Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.


True friendship continues to grow even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.


Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, it doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.


No matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while, and you must forgive them for that.


It isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.


No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.


Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.


Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean that they don't love each other.


Just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.


Sometimes you have to put the individual ahead of their actions.


Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.


No matter the consequences, those who are honest with themselves get farther in life.


Your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.


Even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.


That writing as well as talking can ease emotional pains.


That the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.


It's hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting people's feelings, and standing up for what you believe.


And most of all to love and be loved..


There goes the learning about life never stops as the possibilities are endless. 

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Skin Deep


Here's another passage I have encounter in my daily online browsing. It goes something like this:

“A tiger dies and leaves its skin; a man dies and leaves his name.”


According to this proverb, we are different from beasts in that our most important
aspects are what’s inside the skin, rather than the skin itself. This proverb urges
us to strive to do something more meaningful so that our names evoke positive images.
But nowadays it seems as though what our “names” stand for have been
becoming increasingly shallow, hardly going past the skin itself.

Lookism – “discrimination or prejudice against people based on their appearances”

Is our society guilty of lookism? There was news about a twenty-year-old
young woman who took her own life, leaving a note explaining how she had been hurt by those who teased her for being “fat.” Since she graduated from high school,
she had had trouble finding employment because of her appearance and had
been increasingly stressed about her looks.

There is a joke that says, “You may be forgiven for having a bad heart or personality, but you cannot be forgiven for being ugly.” But this is no joke. With the spread of lookism, the way people judge beauty itself is changing. It is sad to know that some people do not bother to look beyond a person’s physical appearance anymore. We easily judge people base on looks. No longer would
other factors such as manners, demeanor, and personality interfere with such judgments.