Quotable Quotes (Thoughts) on Life and Love

By: Lester Taga Capas

Of what use is your intelligence and logic if your heart is not at peace? Before you seek any knowledge, find first your inner peace. Otherwise, your search for knowledge and fulfilment will be troublesome and barren. Leaving only room for disappointment and pain. Learn from the mistakes of others, but don't be afraid to learn new things for yourself. 

Life as they say is short, but for one who lives it in peace, it is long enough to satisfy the longing of the spirit.

It is a cruel form of self-torture to love someone who would not care if you died tonight. Not only is it futile and masochistic to keep holding on to someone who doesn't love you, it is insane. Your misplaced sense of sympathy and affection will bring you only pain. 

Worth it? Give yourself a good slap on the face and tell yourself that it is worth it. The first person you should love is yourself. Unless you love yourself you can never truly love anyone else. Not everyone is worth it and instead of wasting time and love on the wrong person, learn to give it to someone else. 

Give yourself a chance to find someone more deserving of your love because you only live once and wasting it on the wrong person is the biggest mistake you will ever make

Quotes on Life and Love

By: LESTER TAGA CAPAS

Life isn't about choices, having more money than some else or who gets the trophy and who ranks more, life is just being happy enough to want to live the next day.

On their way home from Sunday service a pastor and a tired office worker sat together at the terminal seat, waiting for a jeepney.

Lifting the soda can from his mouth the pastor blessed a passing beggar and noticed the office worker digging deep into his pocket.

Giving a single coin to the beggar. Pastor: That beggar is dying of hunger and you gave him a single coin?

Brother, remember the lesson about giving what you have? Office worker: Well sir, at least he doesn't have a vulgar and irritable boss breathing down his throat every day; water bills, electric bills, taxes, customers to satisfy.

All-nighters with no sleep but work the next day.

Debts, five children, pesky in laws a nagging wife who thinks you're cheating on her when in fact you're killing yourself just to make sure your children have something to eat.

Saying sorry to your daughter because you can't afford to send her to school. Slowly going crazy just trying to make ends meet and passing out because you haven't eaten but need to work. How does your soda taste?

I don't know because I can't even afford the full ride home. I have to get down halfway and walk the rest of the road on my tired legs. I don't see you dropping a single coin? Shall I give the beggar all my problems because that is all I have?

"Don't judge the way other people are trying to help regardless of your status in life. You never know how much other people are actually giving because you are not them. You are free to preach but not to judge."

Quotes on Life, Love and God

BY: LESTER TAGA CAPAS 
 

“Whenever I look up in awe of the skies, I can't help but raise an arm towards the clouds as if I can actually feel them. As I look on in admiration it doesn't take long to realize that they are far, far from my short reach and in reality I can only stand my ground, take a deep breath, close my eyes and pretend that I am up there with the clouds. Clouds in a way are like some people, far from my reach. I can talk to them and pretend the wind that blows from their direction is the reply. But there is no reaching them for they are far, far from my reach.”

“For an advocate of atheism you sure are lousy. Judging people who believe in god as if they are all the same. You hate on something you don't believe and mock what other people hold sacred yet you sit comfortably unwilling to lift a finger to help other people. You are quick to point out all the faults you see but never mention the good that you do see. Why don't you sit down in front of the mirror and write down all the imperfections you see in yourself and try not to lie about it? Things that happen, happen, and you have free will like everyone else. I don't know why things like cancer, violence and rape happens but I’m pretty sure we all have the free will to try and make a difference even if some things are out of our control, being pessimistic and judgmental, whiny and indifferent solves nothing. But prayer eases the heart and appeases the spirit.”

“Some People cheer violence and laugh at sincerity. Forgetting gratitude but strengthening their insecurities and minimizing trust. They jeer at a guy who has stumbled but won't budge to help them up. Mocking and questioning god when they have nothing to show for their pride and cold heart. Becoming less moral and more subversive as clothes get shorter and perfumes more tempting. Then you ask what is wrong with world? People, some people are what are wrong with this place.”

“You can't control how people will change but it is your choice to love them for whatever they become.”

“The criminal is not the person who steals for food. The criminal is the person who kills another man in the name of a misguided sense of patriotism and corrupted opinion of justice.”

“These people, who raise their hands in the sign of the devil, wear excessive make up, sell their souls for rock and roll and whatever they can sell it for. Going around with a silly pentagram and tattooing the number of the beast on their forehead as if it makes them look tougher. These aren't Satanists; these are just some poor stupid fools thinking the devil gives a damn about whether they dress up as a practitioner of black magic or a chicken suit. The real Satanists are the people who use the name of god, faith and country to further expand their power and multiply their riches while other people starve in the streets. A good example is that black b__d whose heart is blacker than his skin.”