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Showing posts with label words of wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words of wisdom. Show all posts

Friday, February 6, 2009

Lab Kwowts


(GYT's note: these love quotes are circulating in the internet/texts and are attributed to bestselling Pinoy author Bob Ong, however, these have caused online debates as to whether he really wrote them or not)

Kung wala kang alam sa buhay ng dalawang tao o kahit pa man may alam ka sa isa sa kanila, wala ka pa rin sa tamang lugar para lagyan ng kahulugan ang mga kilos nila.

Pag pinag-aagawan ka, malamang maganda o gwapo ka. Sumama ka sa mabuti, di sa mabait. Sa marunong, di sa matalino. Sa mahal ka, di sa gusto ka.

Ang pag- ibig parang imburnal, nakakatakot mahulog, at kapag nahulog ka, it’s either by accident or talagang tanga ka.

Ang tenga kapag pinagdikit korteng puso. Extension ng puso ang tenga kaya kapag marunong kang makinig, marunong kang magmahal.

Alam mo ba kung gaano kalayo ang pagitan ng dalawang tao pag nagtalikuran na sila? Kailangan mong libutin ang buong mundo para lang makaharap ulit ang taong tinalikuran mo.

Kung dalawa ang mahal mo, piliin mo ang pangalawa, kasi hindi ka naman magmamahal ng iba kung mahal mo na talaga ang una.

Mahirap pumapel sa buhay ng isang tao, lalo na kung hindi ikaw ang bida sa script na pinili niya.

Hindi porke’t madalas mong ka-chat, kausap sa telepono, kasama sa mga lakad o ka-text ng wantusawa eh may gusto sa iyo at magkakatuluyan kayo, meron lang talagang taong sadyang friendly, sweet, flirt, malandi, pa-fall o paasa.

♥ Walang taong manhid. Hindi niya lang talaga maintindihan kung ano ang gusto mong iparating dahil ayaw mo siyang diretsuhin.

♥ Kahit ikaw ay parang bato na manhid at walang pakiramdam, mag ingat-ingat ka naman, dahil kahit ganyan ka, hindi nasasaktan, kaya mo namang makasakit.

♥ Kung hindi mo mahal ang isang tao, huwag ka nang magpakita ng motibo para mahalin ka niya...

♥ Lahat naman ng tao sumeseryoso pag tinamaan ng pagmamahal. Yun nga lang, hindi lahat matibay sa temptasyon.

♥ Gamitin ang puso para alagaan ang taong malapit sa iyo. Gamitin ang utak para alagaan ang sarili mo.


♥ Huwag mong bitawan ang bagay na hindi mo kayang makitang hawak ng iba.

♥ Huwag mong hawakan kung alam mong bibitawan mo lang.

♥ Huwag na huwag ka hahawak kapag alam mong may hawak ka na.


♥ Parang elevator lang iyan eh. Bakit mo pagsisiksikan ang sarili mo kung walang pwesto para sa iyo? Eh meron naman hagdan, ayaw mo lang pansinin.


♥ Kung maghihintay ka nang lalandi sa iyo, walang mangyayari sa buhay mo. Dapat lumandi ka din.

♥ Pag may mahal ka at ayaw sa iyo, hayaan mo. Malay mo, sa mga susunod na araw ayaw mo na din sa kanya, naunahan ka lang.


Hiwalayan na kung di ka na masaya. Walang gamot sa tanga kundi pagkukusa.

♥ Pag hindi ka mahal ng mahal mo, huwag ka magreklamo. Kasi may mga tao rin na di mo mahal pero mahal ka. Kaya quits lang.


♥ Bakit ba ayaw matulog ng mga bata sa tanghali? Alam ba nilang pag natuto silang umibig e hindi na sila makakatulog kahit gusto nila?


Hindi lungkot o takot ang mahirap sa pag-iisa kundi ang pagtanggap na sa bilyon-bilyong tao sa mundo, wala man lang nakipaglaban upang makasama ka.

♥ Kung nagmahal ka ng taong di dapat at nasaktan ka, huwag mong sisihin ang puso mo. Tumitibok lang yan para mag-supply ng dugo sa katawan mo. Ngayon, kung magaling ka sa anatomy at ang sisisihin mo naman ay ang hypothalamus mo na kumokontrol ng emotions mo, mali ka pa rin! Bakit? Utang na loob! Huwag mong isisi sa body organs mo ang mga sama ng loob mo sa buhay! Tandaan mo: magiging masaya ka lang kung matututo kang tanggapin na hindi ang puso, utak, atay o bituka mo ang may kasalanan sa lahat ng nangyari sayo, kundi IKAW mismo!

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer


The Invitation

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.


It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Peaceful Words For Times of Conflict (Reprint)

The late Chaim Stern, was liturgist for the reform movement of Judaism. Let some of his writings speak with hope that they help in further discussions of difficult and complex problems ahead. They are taken from his book, Day by Day.

For the times that I could have made peace with my neighbor but picked a quarrel, forgive me; and forgive me, too, for the times when I could have accepted with grace an offering of friendship or reconciliation but did not choose to listen. At times, in my willfulness, I may have closed my heart to the possibility of a healing word: Today - and tomorrow -- let my heart be open.

***

May I be among those who are hard to provoke and easy to appease. May I be a friend of peace at home and at work, and everywhere I go. When I am angry let me reflect whether my anger is proportionate to its cause and appropriate in its expression.

***

Keep me from stubborn insistence on always having my way, even when my cause is doubtful, and the truth is unclear. Keep me however from conceding to wrong and from accepting violence as a way to resolve disputes. O help me to walk serenely and with good conscience, to accept that I am not the only one with integrity. May I seek the good, even when it seems not to my own advantage.

***

Make the door of my heart wide enough to receive all whom I may meet this day. And make it too narrow to allow entrance to envy, pride and strife.

***

Help me to enter into the mind of the one who stands before me, and keep me alive to the feelings of each one present. Let no word or act - mine or theirs - divide me from my kin. Give us all, instead, a quick eye for little kindnesses, and that we may be ready in doing them and gracious in receiving them.