Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Quotes

“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.”

“In the age of social media, there is no such thing as "just an ordinary human being." Every time you post in social media, you harness the power to speak across time, place, and race. And that makes you extraordinary.”

Time Race Power Ordinary Extraordinary Social Media Place Human Being

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“The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.”

People Stories Home Filled Hearts Road Find Our

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

Time Kindness Value Currency Good Fortune Faked Currencies

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“It’s when a thought is at its frilliest that it becomes most delicious to think about in the privacy of your mind. When no one’s looking, you can be 17 again.—psyche roxas-mendoza”

Mind Thought Privacy Delicious 17

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“It’s when a thought is at its frilliest that it becomes most delicious to think about in the privacy of your mind. When no one’s looking, you can be 17 again.”

Mind Thought Delicious 17 Frilliest

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“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.”

Strength Friends Glad Alone Right Road Friendshio

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“In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest— in the end.”

Helping Poor Class Words Class Interest

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“We bleed our sorrows dry on the chance that laughter will save what is left of our dignity”

Left Chance Laughter Dignity Dry Save Sorrows Bleed

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“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)”

Revolution Grieving Activists Revolutionary Movement Horacio Boy Morales

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“It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.”

Writing Truth Beautiful Standards Story Kernel Beyond

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“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.”

Love Giving Universe Lucky Live Receiving Die Souls Boon Taking

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“Why the push to be "immortal"? No one can outlast the stars. Not the monuments, films, books, and all the receptacles of memory humans try so hard to build like so many anthills in a giant forest.”

Books Memory Immortal Films Monuments

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

Alive Anger Die Things Rise Famous

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

World Different Insane Die Old People Knew Proper

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“When you set man against the vastness of the cosmos, the only thing left is humility, a virtue he often discards in the heat of ambition.”

Virtue Humility Ambition Heat Cosmos Vastness Discards

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“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.”

Truth Youth Mountain Bravery Words Man Woman Child Burned Old Forest Cowardly Heavens Windmills Fires Youths Arsonist Windmill Shanties Fighting Windmills

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“The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.”

Age Battle Memory Hearts Minds Field No Limit

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“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.”

Father Son Future Great Beginning Keepers Circle Began Begotten

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“Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.”

Reality You Think Construct

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“It is in children that reality strikes the hardest. And yet, it is the children who weave the brightest dreams.”

Children Reality Dreams Strikes Hardest Weave Brightest

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“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.”

Women Generations Privacy Sanity Public Opinion Generation Gap Stiff Upper Lip

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“It is in the little moments that we live the longest. Everything else is existence.”

Moments Existence Inspirational Life Quotes Longest

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“Mass movements are a function of adaptation. Its pulse is change. A movement without mass is a cult. And it is in cults that stupid tyrants hold sway.”

Change Stupid Movement Mass Tyrants Cult Adaptation Pulse Mass Movements

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“Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.”

Consciousness Faith Inspirational Marriage Inspirational

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

Consciousness Marriage Faith Inspirational

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“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.”

World Lessons Greed Success Inspirational

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“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.”

Cat Kill Street Speeding Car Run Inspirational

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“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.”

Time Memories Reflection Senses Validation First Weaving Rush Flush Clearer Sharper

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“The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world.”

World Dreams True Best Come

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“The time we were together, we were the best we can be for each other.”

Together Time Best Other Each

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“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.”

World Life Long God Faith Hurt Simple Feet Travel Choice Bad Road Crossroads Safety Net Back Rumble Folk Tumble Winding

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“Writing is like singing. Everybody can sing. One only has to find the pitch that will fit the voice. Same with writing—finding the pitch that will fit the thought.”

Writing Fit Singing Thought Write Sing Pitch

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“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.”

People Dream Past Sleep Destiny Morning Wake Up Centuries Filipinos

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

People Hate Strong Emotion Pure Carew Papritz Wasted

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“Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.”

World News Apathy Compatible

Book:Cardinal Virtues: Collection of Stories on Jaime L. Cardinal Sin

Source: Cardinal Virtues: Collection of Stories on Jaime L. Cardinal Sin

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