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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for,being brave for, risking everything for."

- Erica Jong

 

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"And if there's more shocking than the truth, it's the lies people tell to cover it up."

- Gossip Girl

 

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Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation...

We don't love to be loved...

We love to love...

 

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Someday we'll forget the hurt, the reason we cried and who caused us pain. We willfinally realize the secret of being free isnot revenge but letting things unfold in their own way and own time. Afterall, what matters is not the first, but the last chapter of our life which shows how well we ran the race...So smile, laugh, forgive, believe and love all over again.

 

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understand how beautifully God has added one more day in your life - not because you need it, but because someone else needs you.

 

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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."

- Kierkegaard

 

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Faith is not about permission to do what is easy. It's about gaining the courage to do what's difficult.

It's not about staying in your comfort zone. It's about going where Godleads you.

It's not about believing what peoplesay about God. It's simply believing what God says.

 

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"Every woman has burned the paragraph of her paramour only to realize that her love burns even harder than the flame she used."

- Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell, Prison Break

 

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Learn how to value the people around you because in a blink of an eye, what you see may be gone forever. You can't force themto stay but you could give them reasons not to go.

 

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"There are three things that a child can teach an adult:

To be happy for no reason,

To be always busy doing something,

and to know how to demand with all one's might, what one wants."

- Paulo Coelho

 

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There are two perfect guys out thre...the only problem is they're dating each other.

 

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Friends you need:

- the reality checker who is brutally honest

- the spontaneous drag-along buddy

- the existentialist, your shock absorber

- the memory-keeper, your walking diary

- the cheerleader who laughs with you till dawn

 

Friends you don't need:

- the rival who thinks everything form outfits to term paper marks is competition

- the nay-sayer who shoots down your jokes, your new haircut and everything else that you do

- the apprentice, the copycat who is on his/her way of becoming you...

 

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But don't go getting mad at God for every failed relationship you've ever had. If He allowed it to fail, He was saving you from smething you would not have been able to endure.

 

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Sometimes laughing isn't something you do for fun...sometimes it's a relief when you have nowhere to run

 

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Wanting someone so unattainable is something that challenges us all. we put effort, we give unconditional love and we risk almost everything just to have that someone. But why is that when we already have that someone clinging to us, we change? And all of a sudden, we realize that it wasn't love after all...it was just that rush and competitive side of us aiming for contentment...

 

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"I love you."

A warning.

An interruption.

A plea for attention.

A justification.

A reminder.

A trap.

A disguise.

A revelation.

A way of saying nothing.

A way of summarizing everything.

A surrender.

An opening.

An end.

 

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"Don't ever take it for granted when people look you in your eyes; you've no idea how lucky you are. Actually, forget about luck, you've no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. even if it is an angry glare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying."

- Ivan, If You Could See Me Now

 

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Nobody has the power to make things perfect...but everyone is given countless chances to make things right...

 

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If someone loves you, there is actually no need to ask nor beg for something you like or want to happen. Because when a person loves you, that person would perfectly learn about what makes you happy even without telling what it is.

 

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The world's happiest friends never have the same characters...they just have the best understanding of their differences.

 

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Sometimes you don't have to hate someone for hurting you...and it's not proper to be bitter either and the truth is, it's really a common mistake among us individuals...for we live with our expectations. we oblige others to love us back for in the first place, we don't have the right. It hurts when it sounds so right but that's life after all...acceptance and most of all...respect.

 

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The art of being happy lies in the power of finding joy in ordinary things. Life does not force us to be the best. It only asks that we try. Remember this old Italian wish, "Vive bene, spesso l'amore, di risata molto." (Live well, love much, laugh often.)

 

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She told me that I was just another jerk up in the street...so I told her that she was just another face in the crowd. Maybe it was my fault to interrupt her words because while she was walking away, I heard her whisper, "Another jerk up in the street that I'd die to live next to..." while I found myself saying, "Another face in the crowd that managed to take my breath away..."

 

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There are things in life that we question a lot...bu we do not realize that answers come when we stop asking.

 

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It's better to wait for years for that someone you are sure of... than to grab that chance with someone who picks you up but drops you anytime.

 

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Miss me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you miss me, I'm always in your heart. If you hate me, I'm always in your mind.

 

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"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."

- Agnes Repplier

 

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"Some love stories aren't epic novels, some are short stories but that doesn't make them any less filled with love."

- Carrie Bradshaw, Sex & the City

 

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Love leaves a memory that no one can steal but sometimes it leaves a heartache that no one else can heal.

 

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A single lie discovered is enough to create a contagious doubt over every other truths expressed.

 

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Life is at its weakest when there is more doubt than trust but life is at its strongest when one learns to trust despite all the doubts.

 

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"Love. A very generalized word, so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete."

- Lois Lowry, The Giver

 

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Just when you've moved on and thought you've finally gone far enough, something brings you to a touchstone...and that's when you realize...love has a habit of comning back.

 

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Don't you feel mad whenever your sweet dreams are ruined by waking up? I guess that's how life tells us to wake up from fake beliefs and move on to save ourselves from hurting.

 

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"Knowing he loves someone else but still sleeps gently in my lap. Innocent, not knowing that I am here slaughtering one wicked wish - that when he wakes up, I shall be his dream."

- Ronald Baytan, He Who Sleeps In My Lap

 

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Humans get depressed over things they cannot handle because they are too weak to accept that it's time to move on.

 

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"Akala mo hindi ka niya mahal dahil mas pinili niyang maging magkaibigan na lang kayo. Pero ang hindi mo alam, higit ka niyang mahal dahil pinili niya kung saan kayo mas magtatagal."

 

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It's important to remember that you can never regain something you left in the past...shift your focus to the present and deal with the state of things as they are instead of clinging to some memory of what you once had...memories maybe nice but that's all they are

 

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It's like a routine...

I like him on Monday,

Fall for him form Tuesday to Thursday

Will be turned off on a Friday,

I think over him on weekends,

But when I see him the next Monday morning...

I fall for him...

 

 

 

All over again.

 

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Sometimes you've got to tuck your feelings away till it's the right time...like stuffing dollars into a piggybank for a bike you can't quite afford. Coz you'll never know, maybe when you crack open that piggybank, you'll find out that all this time you haven't been saving for a bike...but for a car.

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I'm happy not because everything's perfect nor because everything goes my way...I'm happy because everything's wrong and I'm doing just fine.

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i love my friends. I love how they laugh at me whenever I crack stupid jokes. I love how they laugh with me whenever I feel high. I love how they get angry whenever I forget my responsibilities. I love how they put my heart back together after it was torn apart. And yea, I love how they seem to make the world euphoric with just a hug or a pat on the back. And I love the idea that you are one of them.

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"I beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books wriiten in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers which could not be given to you now because you would not be able to live them. Live the questions noe. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live way into the answer."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

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There's no way we can stop ourselves from fallin in love but we can always set limitations up to what extent we could give. Loving is not about giving our all but it's merely sharing some of what we have. We should not depend our whole self to someone coz in the end, when everything's over, we only have ourselves to suffer the loss with...it's never a sin to love...the only crazy things about it is that we seem to forget ourselves when we thought we found someone who can make us complete...

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Sometimes when they ask us to stay, we feel imporatnt. But then at the back of our mind, we ask ourselves, "Are we wanted?" or, "Just needed?"

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How ironic...we always have to joke when we actually mean what we say...and we like to sound serious when we only want to play...

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No joke would sound laughable once you've heard it already...
So why let the same pain hurt you more than twice?

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Laugh so hard that even sorrow smiles at you.
Live life so well that even death loves to see you live.
Fight so hard that even fate accepts its defeat.

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In love, is it wrong to expect anything in return from our loved ones? I beg to disagree...We are only humans...We can't control ourselves to expect...especially if we know that we are giving too much...too much of what they don't deserve.

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A thousand pair of eyes may speak of overwhelming admiration over you and sometimes it could be flattering. Sometimes it draws a smile on your face but at the end of the day, no matter how many people express such adoration, you'd still want to be with that person who doesn't only see you as someone t be praised but someone who, despite seeing your weaknees, still embraces you and shares your laughters and pains.

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Bakit kailangan ka niyang sabihan ng "Ingat ka..." kung siya mismo hindi ka naman iniingatan?

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Life's not a bitch. Life is a beautiful woman. You only call her a bitch because she won't let you get that pussy.

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Sometimes you just have to lower your expectations to avoid unnecessary disappointments.

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Blindfolded and walking alone, that's what most of us feel. In a lifetime full of major risks and decisons, it might seem safer to remain stagnant but isn't it more fulfilling if despite the fear of falling from a cliff and bruised knees, steps were taken? In the end, losing and mistakes won't count. What matters most is the person we turned out to be, not naive, but wise and beautifully molded by experience.

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I used to wake up in the morning and tell myself that I only had to be strong for one day. Just one day and I did it over and over.

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Di mo naman kailangang mahirapan...minsan kasi, ayaw mo lang talagang bitawan...

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The way others treat you when you're there is something to be considered...but the way they respect you when you're not around is much more important...

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The sweetness of a person will make you happy but it will bring confusion if you will see that same person with the same sweetness with someone else.

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With courage and confidence, let our lives confirm the highest and best qualities we know we have. And with that, we can avoid the need to prove those qualities to anyone.

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