life

"I had a second friend come over to my house, and do you know what I called her? A refill. If relationships aren’t drinkable, why do we thirst for them so much?"

"So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break"

"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."

"In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense."

"Nalaman kong habang lumalaki ka, maraming beses kang madadapa. Bumangon ka man ulit o hindi, magpapatuloy ang buhay, iikot ang mundo, at mauubos ang oras."

"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale."

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."

"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."

"This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever."

"There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time."

"But if I don’t think about love, I will be nothing."

"We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one."

"I bleed ink for her, because her name is written on my heart. She’s the author of all the love I have to give."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

"I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

"The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time."

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

"The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die."