Selected Quotations

Sometimes, reading some quotation could ease the pain inside of you and may change your mood. It could make you smile and think ‘yeah, this is true’ especially if the quote seems related to what you’re feeling right now. Below are selected quotations which I have compiled way back in college. Some of them are inspirational, about friendship, love and a silly one yet true.

captured near Luneta Park.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

If you rape a hooker shouldn't it be considered shop-lifting?

Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.

While I was walking I stopped for a while and thought of the things I don’t have in my life, but I suddenly realized I have you and I feel complete.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Trust is like an ice cube,...once it melts away you may never get it back.

The greatest regrets in our lives are the risks we did not take. If you think something will make you happy, go for it. Remember that you pass this way only once.

When you feel down because you didn't get what you wanted, just sit tight and be happy because God’s thinking of something better for you.

Yesterday is gone, forget it...tomorrow has not yet come, don’t worry. Today is here, use it.

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.

Guys are like Stars, there are many out there, but only one who can make your wishes come true.

We are all both good and evil, and if you think you have no evil in you, you aren't looking hard enough.

If people don't have smiles, give them one of yours.

Work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody's watching, and love like you've never been hurt.

Don't expect others to live up to your expectations.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. 

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

I'd rather be disliked for who I am than liked for who I'm not.

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Truth hurts...not the searching after, the running from.

Don't be sad because it's over, be happy because it happened.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Beauty is not an appearance; it's a state of mind and being.

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, And finds in your presence that life is worthwhile, So when you are lonely, remember it's true: Somebody, somewhere is thinking of you.

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, shallow minds discuss people, which are you?

Cherish your yesterdays, Dream your tomorrows, Live your today(s).

Knowledge is gained by learning, trust by doubt, skill by practice, and love by love.

The only cure for boredom is curiosity; there is no cure for curiosity.

Don't pray for an easy life. Pray to be a strong person.

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be as much as we can be, we must dream of being more.

Everyone has a dream. It's building the foundation for that dream that makes it a reality.

If you can imagine it, you can accomplish it. If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul. 

What's outside is not what's important; it's what is inside that is.

Sometimes, when you're mad, you have the right to be mad, but you don't have the right to be cruel.

If you put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, it feels like an hour. If you talk with a beautiful man for an hour, it feels like a minute. That's relativity. 

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?“ unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.

What's a smile? A smile is when someone special leaks into your mind and through your heart and into your mouth.

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. 

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become a way of life. Watch your way of life, it becomes destiny.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

People can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

10% of life is what happens to you, and the other 90% is how you react to it.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: Some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, all are different colors; but they all have to learn to live in the same box.