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#1

“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 conjure—the lunge of a curse, a shared and shattered history, a loved one drowned and lost in the ocean of forgetting.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: grief, memory, places, sadness

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#2

“I firmly believe that if you pray long enough, if you wish hard enough, God will grant you at least one wish in your lifetime.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: god, pray, wish-inspirational

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#3

“One of the most enduring lessons I learned in my youth: Activists do not save the masses. The masses save themselves. Activists, like politicians, are just there to take credit for it.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

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#4

“We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: consequence, good-inspirational, influence, persons

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#5

“Do you feel it? It’s a heightening of the senses, the kind that immobilizes a cat crossing the street, transfixed by the blinding headlights of a speeding car. You know you have to head for cover, run as far and as fast as your legs can carry you. But you can’t. You just have to know what’s coming—even if it kills you.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: cat, kill, run-inspirational, speeding-car, street

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#6

“Think about it: If you have saved just enough to have your own house, your own car, a modicum of income to pay for food, clothes, and a few conveniences, and your everyday responsibilities start and end only with yourself… You can afford not to do anything outside of breathing, eating, and sleeping.
Time would be an endless, white blanket. Without folds and pleats or sudden rips. Monday would look like Sunday, going sans adrenaline, slow, so slow and so unnoticed. Flowing, flowing, time is flowing in phrases, in sentences, in talk exchanges of people that come as pictures and videos, appearing, disappearing, in the safe, distant walls of Facebook.
Dial fast food for a pizza, pasta, a burger or a salad. Cooking is for those with entire families to feed. The sala is well appointed. A day-maid comes to clean. Quietly, quietly she dusts a glass figurine here, the flat TV there. No words, just a ho-hum and then she leaves as silently as she came. Press the shower knob and water comes as rain. A TV remote conjures news and movies and soaps. And always, always, there’s the internet for uncomplaining company.
Outside, little boys and girls trudge along barefoot. Their tinny, whiny voices climb up your windowsill asking for food. You see them. They don’t see you. The same way the vote-hungry politicians, the power-mad rich, the hey-did-you-know people from newsrooms, and the perpetually angry activists don’t see you. Safely ensconced in your tower of concrete, you retreat. Uncaring and old./HOW EASY IT IS NOT TO CARE”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: activists, old-inspirational, politicians, poor, retreat, rich, time-inspirational, uncaring

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#7

“Writers, when they’re good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they leave the earth, like having the windows shut for good. Where will the world be without good writers?”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: good, soul-inspirational, windows, worlds, writers-inspirational

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#8

“Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: consciousness, faith-inspirational, marriage-inspirational

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#9

“I’ve always wondered why women are expected to deny their true age. Why? To be a woman of 50 and up is a badge of triumph—a hard-earned certificate that says you survived the shallowness, the violence, the meanness, and the caprice of a male-dominated society without losing your mind!”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: age-inspirational, male-dominated, society, women

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#10

“The world is old and full of lessons. We will not lack for examples. We only have to look around carefully, earnestly, so we can learn and realize that success, to be genuine, must not be propelled by greed.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: greed, lessons, success-inspirational, world

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#11

“Memory is all that matters in the end”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: end, memory-inspirational

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#12

“He was a son of the revolutionary movement when he and the revolutionary movement were still pristine. It was a special time for Filipino activists—a time when a hundred flowers bloomed and a thousand thoughts contended in a movement that did not know yet the price of betrayal from within. But flowers wilt and thoughts give way to rancor with the passing of years. And so some may grieve not his passing, while others fall to the ground in tears./FOR HORACIO BOY MORALES, JR. (September 11, 1943 – February 29, 2012)”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: activists, grieving, horacio-boy-morales, revolution, revolutionary-movement

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#13

“Unless you heard it yourself, take with a grain of salt what a person says another person said about you.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

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#14

“Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me:
If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures,
life and living need not be so hard.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: beach, nature, simple, treasures

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#15

“You can change your life or not change it.
It really doesn’t matter in the end.
Life as humans live it is too fleeting,
too incidental, too miniscule
for the universe to keep forever.
So just do good to others; be good, all
because it makes you happy,
happy beyond fame, power, and
eternity.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: change, fleeting, incidental, inspirational, life, universe

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#16

“It is in the little moments that we live the longest. Everything else is existence.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: existence, inspirational-life-quotes, longest, moments

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#17

“27. So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in my generation. We were taught and reared and molded to keep that stiff upper lip and to never explain in public how deeply some people have hurt us. I cannot get away from that mold. I am comfortable in it. I derive my sanity from it.”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: generation-gap, generations, privacy, public-opinion, sanity, stiff-upper-lip, women

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#18

“Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: currencies, currency, faked, good-fortune, kindness, time, value

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#19

“It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: die, different, insane, knew, old-people, proper, world

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#20

“You will always be
special to someone.
Unless you grow so old,
everyone you knew
went ahead”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: finds, mortality, old, someone, special

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#21

“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.”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: centuries, destiny, dream, filipinos, morning, past, people, sleep, wake-up

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#22

“Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: construct, reality, think, you

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#23

“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 bravery enough. Every mountain leveled to the ground, every forest burned, every man, woman, and child who lost their shanties to arsonist fires were defended to the heavens—with words.”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: arsonist, bravery, burned, child, cowardly, fighting-windmills, fires, forest, heavens, man, mountain, old, shanties, truth, windmill, windmills, woman, words, youth, youths

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#24

“Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: alive, anger, die, famous, rise, things

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#25

“Jesus never wrote a book; never went outside his country. His only legacy was to never compromise the good. And it was more than enough for the world.”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: book, compromise, country, good, jesus, legacy, world

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#26

“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 unto the world.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: bad, balance, beware, cosmos, good, grief, misfortune, world

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#27

“Hate is a very strong, pure emotion to be wasted on people you don't care about.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: carew-papritz, emotion, hate, people, pure, strong, wasted

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#28

“It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: beautiful, beyond, kernel, standards, story, truth, writing

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#29

“Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.”
― psyche roxas-mendoza, Cardinal Virtues: Collection of Stories on Jaime L. Cardinal Sin

tags: apathy, compatible, news, world

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#30

“The time we were together, we were the best we can be for each other.”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: best, each, other, time, together

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