Stupid is Forever by Sen. Miriam Santiago

I haven't finished this short read of a book ever since I bought it a couple weeks back but let me just say that I'm enjoying every minute reading it...

here's one quote I had to post...

When asking for something, ask yourself "what for?"

It's very seldom that I post about things I've learned at church esp during homilies but this I just wanted to reflect on...

The priest said and I'm just paraphrasing...
When praying for something have you thought... "What for?"... It's like thinking what the Lord may have been thinking before granting your wish/prayer... Maybe instead of just merely asking for a lot of things from Him, also reflect on the purpose of things... When He grants this... When you get well and then what?... So like when you ask "not to fail in the exam"... What for?... Quite simple yet difficult to answer esp me when I was going through my usual "list of prayers" because I can't come up with reasons aside from superficial and selfish ones...

Made me reflect really...

The priest ended his homily by saying (paraphrasing again)... Perhaps next time whenever we pray not just to know our life's purpose but to know what God's purpose for our life is...


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Pope Francis Speeches and Homilies During His Philippine Visit

There were a lot and I mean a lot of memorable quotes from the whole state and pastoral visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines. I still watch the replays of the events whenever I catch them on TV... And am wishing for a DVD of it should one of these TV networks come up with one 😉

And to further reflect on Pope Francis' messages it was a good thing that Rappler compiled all his speeches and homilies - both impromptu and prepared ones (link found at the end of the blog)

And I really do have lots of quotes that made an impact on me but this in particular is very... Honestly surprising to hear 😉

"Real love is about loving and letting yourself be loved. It's harder to let yourself be loved than to love. That is why it is so difficult to come to the perfect love of God. We can love Him but we must let ourselves be loved by Him. Real love is being open to the love that comes to you. The love that surprises us. If you only have information you are not surprised. Love surprises because it opens a dialogue of loving and being loved. God is a God of surprise because He loved us first. God awaits us to surprise us. Let us allow ourselves to be surprised by God. Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge of love. God reveals himself through surprises."

- Pope Francis impromptu speech during the meeting with young people in UST

Pope Francis' Speeches and Homilies click here

What's your quotable quote?

How has/will Pope Francis impacted/influence your life esp after his visit?

As Cardinal Tagle said... Let's reflect and do...

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The Fault in our Stars by John Green

Nope! This is not a book review... Shedding a few tears which is a sure sign that I loved a book - which I did after reading this one - is enough to let you know that this book is another good one by John Green...

I'm just going to list down some quotes that I bookmarked in my Kindle.  These lines/quotes might be a little SPOILERISH so consider yourself warned! haha

"I fear oblivion," he said without a moment's pause. 

 "I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark." 

*****

"Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said

Isaac shot me a look.  "Right of course.  But you keep the promise anyway.  

That's what love is.  Love is keeping the promise anyway."

*****

"That's the thing about pain," Augustus said... 

"It demands to be felt."

*****

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/But in ourselves" 

Easy enough to say when you're a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!) 

but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.

*****

"The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.  

The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint"

*****

"You realize that trying to keep your distance from me 

will not lessen my affection for you."

*****

"Do you know, what Dom Perignon said after inventing champagne?...

He called out to his fellow monks, 

'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars'"

"Of course," said our waiter.  

"We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friends."

*****

"People always get used to beauty, though."

"I haven't gotten used to you just yet."

(BOOM! hahaha -not part of the quote!)

*****

"Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace.  

It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."

*****

"You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, 

"of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives.  

You are a failed experiment in mutation."

*****

"You know what I believe?  I remember in college I was taking this math class, 

this really great math class taught by this tiny old woman.  

She was talking about fast Fourier transforms 

and she stopped midsentence and said, 

'Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed'"

*****

"How are the eyes?"

"Oh, excellent...  

I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem."

"Awesome, yeah...Not to one-up you or anything 

but my body is made out of cancer."

*****

"Ma'am, your daughter's car has just been deservedly egged by a blind man.  

Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police."

*****

"What's that?"

"That laundry basket?"

"No.  Next to it."

"I don't see anything next to it."

"It's my last shred of dignity.  It's very small."

*****

"some infinities are bigger than other infinities...

There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set.

I want more numbers than I'm likely to get..."

*****

"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, 

because there was no longer anyone to remember with. 

It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself..."

*****

"You are going to live a good and long life filled 

with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!"

*****

"There's a great quote in Gus' house, 

one that both he and I found very comforting: 

Without pain, we couldn't know joy"

*****

"But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?

Gives you an idea how I feel about you."

*****

"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; 

the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention."

*****

"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, 

but you do have some say in who hurts you."

(Gosh! I got teary-eyed a bit rereading a few of those favorite lines again!)

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