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."

Quotations on Life, Love, Wealth and Education

Guest Post by: LESTER TAGA CAPAS 

“To those who have the means to smile even without money, the world can be a paradise. But to those who can't smile even with all the luxuries of money, the world is colder than ice.”

“Rejection teaches us that it is better to be resilient and hope to find a door that will open for us; rather than standing in place and waiting for a door that will never open.”

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“The world is already full of brilliant people. Sadly it is also full of smart people, who use their intellect to conjure methods by which they can cheat and be above others; treating life as a competition, more than anything else, and straying from their maker. What the world really needs are kindhearted people, who know better than to worship money, vices and all that the devil uses in this world; kindhearted people who know the value of love and charity.”

“Love on command is impossible even if you forced someone to love other people - they can't. Love can only be suggested, you can teach people about how to love other people but in the end, learning how to love is still dependent on the willingness of their heart. In my opinion love is a mix of joy and sacrifice. It is not something I can give because society demands that I do so. Love is the one thing we can never wholly understand but in our heart we know how to do and value. You can trample my pride or drive me through mud I will forgive you. But the moment you betray my love I can only learn to forget you.”

“You never really know who is worthy of your love until you've given it. Any plan you make beforehand has as good a chance at working as it has of blowing up in your face. Sometimes you succeed sometimes you don't. Not giving up is just as valuable as knowing when to quit. To waste your life fighting for a love you cannot have is a waste of your breath, to give up on a love that could have been worth it is nothing but regret. The only true regret is never knowing what could have been if you decide it is impossible even before you try.”

“Sometimes love is like a bar of black chocolate. Bittersweet, makes you crave more with every taste but you know when to stop. Expensive but worth it, you will keep wanting it. Sharing it with someone else doesn't mean they will share it with you when they have and you don't. If you give it all away and leave none for yourself you will suffer until you save up for more. Having too much has consequences, bad for your health. Getting too little doesn't mean you will die. It's a good remedy when you're feeling blue. So always be thankful for the people, who - without strings or words - simply give it to you.”

“My dear I beg you, please be silent, just give it a rest. Don't tell me that love and forgiveness is what's best. You speak as if it was easy to love those who I detest. Because it wasn't you, who was stabbed in the chest.”

“Sometimes hatred is more justifiable and reasonable than love. You love even when you get hurt and refuse to let go even when you should. You love even when it is unrequited because love has driven you mad. Hatred on the other hand is simpler, you hate because someone hurt you deeply. And that pain has left a mark.”

“What is the point of speaking in riddles and making things sound complicated when you can easily simplify it and make yourself understood? Sometimes in trying to make yourself look deep and wise you end up being misunderstood. Speak plainly and you will be understood correctly.”

“Unrequited love breaks the heart. To be rejected dampens the spirit. To be wronged by someone else can shatter the body and mind. To be denied forgiveness wounds the soul.”

“A madman has little to no control over his actions; he is a prisoner of his own mind. A psychopath is free from his mind, humanly logic and reason. He does what pleases him simply because it, to him, is right. Lots of madmen and psychopaths in this world, most of them don't even know it.”

“Sometimes, with the worst situations come the best opportunities. Only those who tirelessly sift through the straw find the golden needle in a haystack.”

“For love to be effective it has to go in both directions, to and from. No matter how much love you pour into someone, if it is unrequited, it will only end in heartbreak. And there are no words that can justify the pain and tears of a broken heart, not even "sorry.”

Love Quotations for a Beloved Abroad.

These are love quotations for your beloved abroad. Feel free to use them.

“The distance is not enough to keep the love overflowing from one heart to another.”

“Your absence has made the longest distance shortest, and the loneliest nights saddest.”

“I want to touch your face as you smile but my hands touch the cold screen.

I want to feel your warmth next to my body, but the heat comes from the mouse atop my table.

You are near, yet so far, because I can see your radiant smile and sparkling eyes.

But alas! They are part of the digital images in my laptop.”