Day 13: your favorite quote
Quotes. Marami po e. It's hard to choose just one.
1. "Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be." (Memoirs of a Geisha)
~May pinaghuhugutan, nakooo. Nung nakita ko nga ulit yan, akala ko para sa akin sinulat.
I liked this quote because I have seen only too well how true it is. Obstacles aren't bad things. Minsan, they happen to make us stronger. At other times, they do to test our faith and principles. Pero kahit ano pa man ang dahilan kung bakit tayo nakararanas ng pagsubok, nakikita natin kung ano ang tunay at ano ang hindi. We see who will leave and who will stay. Who our true comrades are. Who we really are. Kaya.
2. "The coming of challenges depends not on whether we are ready for them, but on whether they are ready for us." (My English teacher, Sir Paul Anthony Mendoza)
~Sabi ko last time, we shouldn't go with the flow, diba? I'm not taking that back. But I'm saying I believe in this quote because I know that, though some events result from our own actions, some things cannot be prevented. We cannot prepare ourselves fully, but we could always try and decide wisely for ourselves in the face of challenges.
3. "What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, Nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet..." (Juliet, Romeo and Juliet)
~Ever since my II - Narra days, memorized ko yan. (Kahit yung "Oh Romeo, Romeo...") Nirerecite ko pa yan sa mga kawawa kong kaklase dati, at syempre naweweirdohan sila sakin. Pero, kahit na. Though I can see now that Romeo and Juliet is only a tale of young love gone wrong, I still like the prospect of loving the way they did. 'Yung kahit na kaaway ng buong angkan mo kahit bago ka pa ipanganak, okay lang, kasi mahal mo eh. 'Yung handa mong itakwil ang pagkatao mo (yikes.) para lang dun sa labiduds mo. Shiiiii. Haha, ayoko na. Hopeless romantic na kung hopeless romantic. It's just nice to believe that such a beautiful thing could exist in an irrational, corrupted world.
~Phew!~
