Quotes by Filipino Authors

Guess life is really a road marked by crossroads. It's not the long and winding stretches that will hurt you the most. It's the crossroads. You make a bad choice and it's a tumble and a rumble before you get back on your feet again. But you'll get back on your feet. You'll find yourself. And then you'll be off to your next adventure (crossroads, I mean). In my case, I always had a safety net—my faith in God. But then, I'm more like the millions of simple folk who travel this world.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Don't be afraid if your idea is crazy, because good things come from crazy ideas. (p. 96)
Injap Sia
My heart and my soul are best of friends.And their friendship startedthe day you and I first met.
Frederick Espiritu
Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.
Melissa de la Cruz
When I look at myself in the mirror, I wonder where everything has gone. Even the things I used to remember with so much clarity now seem dimmer. What happens to memory when it vanishes? What happens to events when everyone who remembers them ceases to remember?
Dean Francis Alfar
The negative thoughts inside my head blown into a multiple rays of hope for my goals in life adding some motivated aspects of my ambition triggered my inner sanctum to prolong the basic human emotions.
Fernando Lachica
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
I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me.- Oliver Hazzard-Perry
Melissa de la Cruz
The air changes. Then that invisible spider crawls up my spine, tickling the hairs behind my neck. I have come to know this spider these last couple of years. It whispers there’s something else in the room, breathing with you, watching you, grinning at you.I hate that damn spider.
Rin Chupeco
This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.
Melissa de la Cruz
[On action filled leadership] Telling your team what to do is showmanship.Showing people how to do it is leadership. Leading for the purpose of visual effect will not accomplish the vision.
Janna Cachola
I hope you take the courage to pursue your dreams. I wish that you will have the determination to start the best day of your life everyday.
Diana Rose Morcilla
That was the problem these days--everything was considered disposable--clothes, cell phones, relationships.
Melissa de la Cruz
That awkward moment when you realize someone was actually home the whole time you were singing on the tops of your lungs.
Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.
Melissa de la Cruz
Who am I, when all I’ve ever believed myself to be, is fading before my very eyes?Am I still me, or just a shadow of what I used to be?Was I just an illusion that lived only in my head?Did I paint myself as something more than I really am?And with all these changes in my life… What will be left of the woman who dreamed her dreams?When all the colors that she wrapped herself with… are slowly being stripped away…Copyright © Eeva Lancaster
Eeva Lancaster
If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches.
Samantha Sotto
I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone.
Conchitina Cruz
Beauty and youth. What a dazzling combination. To bewilder and to sparkle. Days filled with sunshine. And men worshiping at her feet. Love was a game she played with wantonness and mischief.-Fabulous
Jofelyn Martinez Khapra
Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in general have consequences. In our thoughts we make dreams. So if I think I can do it, then my actions will be "I CAN" and I am able to do it. So the result or the consequence will be "I did it!".
Diana Rose Morcilla
Love has a certain element of tenderness, which alone pierces through the heart and binds us more intimately than any force in the universe ever can.
Jocelyn Soriano
You have a say. You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.
Janna Cachola
I believe when you integrate charity in your craft and not just think of the fame and riches it would entitle you with, you will feel this true sense of fulfillment. Carry on your mission, of where God destined you to be- to use His gifts in good ways and not just for yourself.
Elizabeth E. Castillo
The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Do you know that you being here with that gun in your hand is more wondrous than the parting of the Red Sea? For someone like God, it would be easy to command the skies, the waters, the rocks. But to change a man’s heart, for a man to choose to come here and acknowledge his helplessness, now, that is the province of miracles.
V.J. Campilan
Rephrase the words "staff members" into team members. Because the people in our team are far more than employees, or colleagues. We are a unit!
Janna Cachola
That's the nature of any kind of rot. If you don't stop it, it keeps going. It will keep going until it destroys the very organism that feeds it.
F. H. Batacan
But... is sex the only way to know your preference? I thought it's more about who you fall in love with?
Fritz Diantan
Gosh, so this house must be a nunnery!”-Lilly to Sophia
Teresa May B. Bandiola
A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.
Miguel Syjuco
In the context of physics, 137 is equal to the integer part of the inverse of the fine structure constant ... The fine structure constant α is the key to the physicist’s quest for a Grand Unified Theory ... The number 137 has intrigued numerous prominent theoretical physicists ... All told, we believe that it is much easier, and more motivating, to remember a number that has deep significance in numerous disciplines, ... with the following terse ode to 137:Bethe was mischievous with 137Bohr was intrigued by 137Born was mystified by 137Fermi was frisky with 137Feynman was mesmerized by 137Heisenberg was fascinated by 137Lederman was enchanted by 137Pauli was consumed by 137Turing was matched by 137
Leon O Chua
I’m not brave enough to love youThe same wayYou’re not strong enough to take me on.
Dawn Lanuza
From a distance I finally see, I completely understand, As I move forward to take my second step, Followed by a third step, Oh! You are easy to love like a sponge.
Alon Calinao Dy
Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
morality... comes at a price.
Miguel Syjuco
I don't need to be vocal about my intentions, I am just intentional about my actions.
Janna Cachola
Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.
Cirilo F. Bautista
What else can I do if you all hate the man I love now? Whatchoice do I have?” Sophia groaned. “And who am I to disobey everyone of you…? I love you, Mom. I love every one of you, but I alsolove Jericho. Please… you don’t have to make me choose because Ican’t afford to lose everyone. Including Jericho.”-Sophia to Elizabeth
Teresa May B. Bandiola
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.
Miguel Syjuco
If something bad happened just do this 3 things.First inhale second exhale and third accept that it happened.
Kenneth de Guzman
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
If you wish to know the truth of who you are,follow the voice that calls you home.Go there.For where our love is,there we will be.
Frederick Espiritu
Fate and family put me in charge of this city. I will run it my way.
Budjette Tan
Romance is a veiled reality, while marriage is the unveiling of reality!
Dr. Vivencio Ballano
Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.
Apol Lejano-Massebieau
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
That's why they call it a heartbreak. Because you really feel like your heart is breaking. It's not just an emotion pain, it's a physical pain too.
Jerilee Kaye
Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above.
Diana Rose Morcilla
I have tried to be very rational, although I know love and hate are not rational and explained feelings.
F. Sionil Jose'
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
F. Sionil Jose'
We soon fall asleep in each other’s arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.
Fernando Lachica
Make a real not alibis
Rolando E. Ochea
Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.
Marc Pamittan
Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.
Sade Andria Zabala
You have a right to be you. It is a privilege for others to be around you.
Janna Cachola
Love is silent. Yet it could fill the spaces no other sound can ever do. Truth is there’s no sound without silence. We can listen to all the beautiful songs, but unless we can hear where the music is coming from, the empty spaces of our lives can never be filled and the song we sing will have no meaning.
Frederick Espiritu
There's more to life than love.
Ramon Bautista
Work with what you have. Look good, feel good.
Claire Betita de Guzman
I shall love you and give myself up for you, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up"- then Alex looked into Eliza's shining eyes and added a twist of his own-"and I shall serve you with tenderness and respect, and encourage you to develop the gifts that God has given you.
Melissa de la Cruz