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#1

“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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#2

“No story is complete until it is written.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza The Unlamented

tags: complete, no, story, written

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#3

“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 to terms with your right to be alone.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: alone, friends, friendshio, glad, right, road, strength

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#4

“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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#5

“The most difficult lesson is not being bitter—that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: balance, bitter, cease, difficult, gullible, lesson

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#6

“The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: filled, find, hearts, home, our, people, road, stories

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#7

“There is my truth. There is your truth. And there is their truth. The absolute truth is with God.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: absolute, absolute-truth, god, truth

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#8

“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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#9

“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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#10

“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 painful. But it gets done, square inch-by-square inch. Until, the skin that is your memory gets completely scarred and numbed. You live. The disappeared is detached from the dermis of remembering. And that is what is known as moving on.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza The Unlamented

tags: dermis, detached, disappeared, flesh, grieved, limbs, memory, moving-on, pain, peeled, remembering, yawning, years

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#11

“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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#12

“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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#13

“A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: elections, lie, profit, profitable, truth

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#14

“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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#15

“The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: best, come, dreams, true, world

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#16

“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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#17

“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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#18

“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.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: began, beginning, begotten, circle, father, future, great, keepers, son

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#19

“To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy.”
― psyche roxas-mendoza

tags: anything, everything, forgive, hypocrisy, love, world

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#20

“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 flushed the first time. There will be time for reflection after you've had your fill.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: clearer, first, flush, memories, reflection, rush, senses, sharper, time, validation, weaving

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#21

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

tags: construct, reality, think, you

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#22

“There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just taking, never giving. So the universe gives a boon to a few lucky souls: Who they love will love them back—all their lives.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: boon, die, giving, live, love, lucky, receiving, souls, taking, universe

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#23

“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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#24

“Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

tags: consciousness, faith-inspirational, marriage

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#25

“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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#26

“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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#27

“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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#28

“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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#29

“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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#30

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

tags: end, memory-inspirational

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