A wish for you this season!

"Wouldn't life be worth the living
Wouldn't dreams be coming true
If we kept the Christmas spirit
All the whole year through?"

Butas

"A hole in a Filipino classroom is a hole of the Philippine education system."

Kabuntagon

“What do you mean?
Do you wish me a good morning,
or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not;
or that you feel good on this morning;
or that it is a morning to be good on?”
---J.R.R. Tolkien

Libro

"When I was young, poverty was so common
that we didn't know it had a name."
---Lyndon B. Johnson

Kama

"We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world. "
---Muhammad Yunus

Chicharon

"In a dark moment I ask,
"How can anyone bring a child into this world?"
And the answer rings clear,
"Because there is no other world,
and because the child has no other way into it."
---Robert Brault

Agos

"Ang mga batang ngayon lang isinilang
May hangin pa kayang matitikman?
May mga puno pa kaya silang aakyatin
May mga ilog pa kayang lalanguyan ?"
---Masdan Mo Ang Kapaligiran, Asin

'Til the end of time...

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into."
---Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

Umaga na...

“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.”
---Og Mandino

Gulong...

“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”
--- Elizabeth Lawrence

Para kay Itay!

You may have thought I didn't see,
Or that I hadn't heard,
Life lessons that you taught to me,
But I got every word.

Perhaps you thought I missed it all,
And that we'd grow apart,
But Dad, I picked up everything,
It's written on my heart.

Without you, Dad, I wouldn't be
The man I am today;
You built a strong foundation
No one can take away.

I've grown up with your values,
And I'm very glad I did;
So here's to you, dear father,
From your forever grateful kid.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

Prabal

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore”
---Vincent Van Gogh

Lolo Emo

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."

-Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti

Kandungan

"Sa kandungan mo, mahihimbing ako
Sa kandungan mo, nasa 'yong lahat ang buhay ko
Sa bawat saglit ang 'yong pagmamahal
Ang pinadarama dito sa 'king mundo
At sa pagluha ko, yakap at haplos mo
Sa kandungan mo, payapa ang loob ko..."
-Carol Banawa, Sa Kandungan Mo

Basura at Buhay

"Society is composed of two great classes -
those who have more dinners than appetite,
and those who have more appetite than dinners."
-Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort

Anghel Na Walang Langit

"Mga anghel kaming walang langit
Dinggin aming hiling
Ang aming panalangin
Sa bukas namin
Ano ang gagawin?
Sana'y marating
Ang hanap naming langit..."
---Mga Anghel Na Walang Langit

You'll be safe...

"When the light disappears
And when this world’s insincere
You’ll be safe here
When nobody hears you scream
I’ll scream with you
You’ll be safe here..."
---Rivermaya, You'll be Safe Here

Kahayag

"It's better to light just one little candle,
Than to stumble in the dark.
Better far that you light just one little candle,
All you need's a tiny spark.
If we'd all say a prayer that the world would be free,
The wonderful dawn on the new day we'll see.
And if everyone lit just one little candle,
What a bright world this would be..."
---Perry Como, One Little Candle

Pana-panahon...

"Ang mga puno’t halaman
Ay kabiyak ng ating gunita
Sa paglipas ng panahon
Bakit kailangan ding lumisan?"
---Noel Cabangon, Kanlungan

Reflection

"Kung ano ang lakad ng alimangong matanda,
Ay siyang lakad ng alimangong bata."

Marangal...

“Never turn down a job

because you think it's too small;
you don't know
where it can lead.”

---Julia Morgan

Patay

"Only when the last tree has died

and the last river been poisoned
and the last fish been caught
will we realise we cannot eat money. "
~Cree Indian Proverb

Bata...

“There is a garden in every childhood,
an enchanted place where colors are brighter,
the air softer,
and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”
– Elizabeth Lawrence

Paglaki ko...

"Que Sera, Sera,

Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be."

---Que Sera Sera, Doris Day

Umagang Kay Ganda

"Basta't tayo'y magkasama
Laging mayroong umagang kay ganda
Pagsikat ng araw
May dalang liwanag
Sa ating pangarap, ooh
Haharapin natin..."
---Bamboo, Umagang Kay Ganda

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