A Quote for the Day

Time is the ultimate witness of mortality. When man is young, time means no more than a counting tool for accomplishments, or the lack thereof, often in the context that life will continue to be so in an infinite future. But man has to deal with time eventually. In his deathbed, time will ask a foolish man: "Now that your time has run out, what meaning have you found in it?" 

Truth comes only to those who seek with open minds.

Poverty as a scapegoat for committing crimes is overrated. That also discriminates the poor as being by situation the only potential criminals (everyone are potential criminals). Many sensational crimes involving fortunes to the tune of billions of dollars have been committed in corporate and government worlds by those who will not qualify to our common definition of poverty. If we want to point a finger to the cause of crime, that finger  must be directed to the heart of every man, where lies the unseen evil that ferments schemes to take other peoples' lives and properties against their will.

Sometimes when it rains, it really pours down so hard it floods the gates, or barge into the life of those who happen to receive it.

If something is not broken, it is crazy to even think of fixing it.

Freedom is dangerous. It gives us the option to choose evil, and to do evil things. Unfortunately, it is only through freedom that we can truly choose goodness and do good things according to our heart's content.

Not everyone is cut for the married life. Those who are not, should not. So much presumption in this area has led to broken marriages and children.

When things seems to spin out of control, it is time to cast your burden at the feet of the crucified Lord, and let go. Where we failed, God will not.

True friends will always be true. Once the "true" disappears, so are your friends, even if they still talk with you and smile with you. 

If God gives, accept. If He takes, let go. No fuss. No rolling on the floor crying and kicking. There is nothing in this world worth more than following His Will.

Despite our differences, even if irreconcilable, our clashing self-interests and hatred of each other as people, we are distant siblings of the same parents. Even though many no longer remember that they are our brothers and sisters and we are theirs, being so will never cease to be. The most important mission a sibling can take on in his or her life is to look for those brothers and sisters lost in time, and bring them back home.  

A beautiful car does not justify an ugly behavior. Indeed, beauty shames twice more an ugly behavior.

We deserve to be forgiven only as much as we have forgiven. But God's love makes it possible to receive forgiveness even when we don't deserve it.

Despite of what we learned from the business school, from motivational lectures, or from inspirational literature about planning for the future, God wants us to concern ourselves with the present moment, to make it count in eternity through love. And the future, He wants us to leave it in His hands.

Whatever disaster you are in right now, it will not last forever. Nothing ever does. And if it does get worse, that can only happen if you let it.

Adults can certainly teach children all about life. But there is one thing that only children can teach adults--what life is all about.

Like memory, justice is useful and beneficial more to the living than to the dead. 

We do not respect and honor our parents because we have not disagreed with them in the past or in the present. We do not respect and honor them because they have been perfect in their behaviors as parents and human beings. We respect and honor them simply for the reason that we are their children and they are our parents. Asking beyond that will be in the realms of graces from God, which are way beyond our control. We simply have to thank them for making our existence possible, and for allowing us to even know the difference.

Unlike the perfect and ever-giving love of God, human love is imperfect at best. Human love cannot give all the time; it also thinks of what it can get. It is the nature of mankind to need things for themselves, thus they need to get. The best that human love can attain is to give more than it prefers to receive. And this giving and taking go beyond those things that can be counted. It includes small things that are very valuable to the other. When human love fails, it is because the man or woman has sought to get or not give more than it gives or receives, respectively. And it is one more story in the tragic history of failed loves. But there is another way to turn the situation for the better. The person must go back to the love of God. There he or she will be nourished back, and learn to love again the way God loves even in his or her most imperfect ways. 

Distance makes the heart forget. No, it does not always make the heart grow fonder.

No one is too old to have fun, and enjoy a good life. Even amidst the ups and downs of life, it is still possible to have fun. It is all in the mind. Commit to be happy whatever condition there is, and happiness you will find at the tip of your fingers.

The passion of feminism to put women in competition with men as a gender as strong as men is rather badly misplaced and in a way even misguided. Her strength is much different from his, making both gender naturally complementary. Besides that there is one fact that women should not forget--the greatest creature in the world, the most blessed creature of God, is a woman, not a man. And who do you think that woman is?

We don't have to look for fun and happiness somewhere else. Just by looking at yourself, of who you are and what have you been doing lately or in the past, you will find a lot of things to laugh about, to have fun with, and to be happy with.

The only security is hope... hope for the eventual triumph of the love of God in the world where evil reigns. It is the hope that the grace of God can finally work in the hearts and lives of the disciples of Jesus Christ and people of good will in destroying the forces of evil working restlessly in this world.

It is the passing of the old year That breathes afresh the days of the new. It is the death of yesterday That lightens up a new life for tomorrow. It is the hope and promise for a world of justice and peace In the year of Our Lord two thousand and eleven. It is the joy in the eyes of the youngs And the delights in the heart of the olds.