are you some kind of a religious person?









because i could be you answered prayer :)

i am an ASSIGNMENT..





wanna take me home? :)

here's the truth about truth:

it simply hurts..







so we lie..

when your special someone leaves you, don't hope and wait for that person to come back. instead, feel good about yourself and say, "thanks for giving me the chance to find someone better than you."

do you know what would be the best in life?

..it's when your family becomes your friends and your friends becomes your family.ü


your family understands you as a friend..

and your friends supports you as your family :)

understand how faithfully God has added one more day in your life.. not because you need it.. but because some people needs YOU :)

you know it's love when you've been saying goodbye for the last half hour but still you are not ready to leave them..

it's really hard to wait for the right person in your life especially when the wrong ones are so freakinly damn HOT :)

as i woke up this morning..

i realized that i should not regret any day of my life..

good days give me happiness..

bad days give me experiences..

both are essential to life.

..i should keep going..


happiness keeps me sweet.

trials makes me strong.

sorrows keeps me human.

failures makes me humble.

success keeps me glowing..

and GOD keeps me going :)

Most people think that "I Love You" is the best thing one can hear from somebody but maybe "I Love You Too" has greater impact on the human heart. Anybody can receive an "I Love You" yet fewer people get back an "I Love You Too" :)

"Kung hindi mo naman kayang mahalin ang isang tao, wag ka nang magpakita ng motibo para mahalin ka niya."

-- Bob Ong

"Panu mo masasabing special ka sa isang tao kung ang bawat ginagawa niya sa'yo ay ginagawa nya din sa iba?"

-- Bob Ong

each of us represents a star in the sky..

sometimes, we shine with the rest.

sometimes, we twinkle alone.

and most often, we fall and make someone's dream to come true :)

Repeated experiences have one aim: to teach the things you refuse to learn :)

It's so funny how we set qualifications for the right person to love, while at the back of our minds we know that the person we truly love will always be an exception.

intermission. oops! my apologies..

hey there readers ツ

i do apologize for not being around lately.

just a lil busy with some school stuffs..

but i will surely be back in a matter of few days from now.

i swear ツ

alright?

see ya around fellas ツ

am missing blogspot and everybody :)

.. a lot :)

[♥♡♥ xOxO ® diozaliciouz18 ® xOxO ♥♡♥]

I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you've crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and I don't know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself.
- Grey's

Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.
- Grey's

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.
- Meredith Grey

You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.

- Meredith Grey

ANOTHER ONG!!

"madalas ang wrong sent ay hindi naman talaga wrong sent.. at ang blank text ay hindi napindot lang.. ganyan lang talaga magpapansin ang ayaw mag first move.."

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"hindi porket madalas mung ka-chat, kausap sa telepono, kasama sa mga lakad o ka-txt ng wantusawa e may gusto na sya sayo at magkakatuluyan kayo. may mga tao lang talaga na sadyang friendly, sweet, paasa, pa-fall o flirt."

~ words of wisdom by Becky Ong [baklang kapatid ni Bob Ong]

not all times, a joke is intended to make us laugh..

sometimes, it is intended to make us think..

deeply..

sometimes, when they ask us to stay, we feel so important.

but the at the back of our minds,we ask ourselves..

are we wanted?

or just needed?

never break 4 things in your life..

1. trust

2. promise

3. relationship

4. heart

coz when they break, they dont make noise.. but do hurts a lot..

people are given the opportunity to meet the love of their lives..

some unexpected,
some thru years of friendship,
some by chance,
some in instant.

only a few have the foresight to see beyond imperfections and take it wholeheartedly..

when love is present, it won't require how you look,
how you dress,
or on how you perceived..

but on what you become when the person is around..

learn to appreciate the people around you coz you might lose the person who cares for oyu the most..

one sad irony of self is that, we always know what's right for others..

while there are certain wrong things we pursue on our own..

mas madaling ngumiti ka kahit hundi ka masaya, kaysa sumimangot habang kinikiliti ka sa tenga..

--pampagulo lang to. haha

leaving someone behind means you only want the best for them.. even if it means swallowing the sad reality that..

"the best just isn't you.."

7 THINGS by Miley Cyrus
I probably shouldn't say this
But at times I get so scared
When I think about the previous
Relationship we shared
It was awesome but we lost it
It's not possible for me not to care

And now we're standing in the rain
But nothings ever gonna change
Until you hear, my dear

The 7 things I hate about you
The 7 things I hate about you, oh you

You're vain
Your games
You're insecure
You love me you like her
You made me laugh, you made me cry
I don't know which side to buy

Your friends they're jerks when you act like them
Just know it hurts
I want to be with the one I know
And the 7th thing I hate the most that you do
You make me love you

It's awkward and silent as I wait for you to say
What I need to hear now is your sincere apology
When you mean it I'll believe it
If you text it I'll delete it
Let's be clear
Oh I'm not coming back
Your taking seven steps here

The 7 things I hate about you
You're vain
Your games
You're insecure
You love me you like her
You made me laugh, you made me cry
I don't know which side to buy

Your friends they're jerks when you act like them
Just know it hurts
I want to be with the one I know
And the 7th thing I hate the most that you do
You make me love you

Compared to all the great things
That would take too long to write
I probably should mention the 7 that I like

The 7 things I like about you
Your hair
Your eyes
Your old Levi's
When we kiss I'm hypnotized

You make me laugh, you make me cry
But I guess that's both I'll have to buy
Your hands in mine when we're intertwined

never listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or pessimistic because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you and the ones you have in your heart. always think of the power that words have because everything you hear and read will affect your actions.

therefore, always be positive. and above all, be deaf when people tell you that you cannot fulfill your dreams..

no one should let themselves get used to anything.

give your heart a room for accepting that in this life, nothing really stays constant.

it's very hard to freeze your tears when everytime you turn around, there's another inescapable reason to cry..

"My heart is a red rose. When happy, it sparkles brillianly. When sad it bleeds and forms a dark puddle under it. When my heart dies, the soft fragile petals fall. So you might want to put your rose in a vase."

Claire Charmont
Love specialist

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Sir Thomas Malory
1430-1471, British Author

The couple that fights the most is the one most in love... it shows they care enough to notice the other one screwed up and care enough to mention it to the person so they can fix it. When you stop fighting it means you stopped caring.

Shawna Waltemyer
single divorced mother of 2

as quote from a well-respected psychotherapist:

"the harder you try to forget something the more you think about it unconsciously.."

don't resent the fact that i checked on you today..

because if you weren't worth anything..

i wouldn't bother.ü

ADVERTISING BOB ONG!!

pakawalan mo ung mga bagay na nakakasakit sa'yo, kahit na pinasasaya ka nito. wag mong hintayin yung araw na sakit na lang nararamdaman mo at iniwan ka na ng kasiyahan mo..

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parang elevator lang yan ee. bakit mo pagsisiksikan yung sarili mo kung wala ng pwesto para sayo? e meron namang hagdan, hindi mo lang napapansin..

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“Kung hindi mo mahal and isang tao, wag ka nang magpakita ng motibo para mahalin ka nya..”

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“Ayokong nasasanay sa mga bagay na pwede namang wala sa buhay ko.”

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“Hinahanap mo nga ba ako o ang kawalan ko?”

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“…mas marami pa s’yang alam kesa sa nakasulat sa Transcript of Records n’ya, mas marami pa s’yang kayang gawin kesa sa nakalista sa resume n’ya, at mas mataas ang halaga n’ya kesa sa presyong nakasulat sa payslip n’ya tuwing sweldo.”

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”…madaming teacher sa labas ng eskwelahan. desisyon mo kung kanino ka magpapaturo.”

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“Nalaman kong hindi final exam ang passing rate ng buhay. Hindi ito multiple choice, identification, true or false, enumeration or fill-in-the-blanks na sinasagutan kundi essay na isinusulat araw-araw. Huhusgahan ito hindi base sa kung tama o mali ang sagot, kundi base sa kung may kabuluhan ang mga isinulat o wala. Allowed ang erasures.”

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”Mag-aral maigi; Kung titigil ka sa pag-aaral, manghihinayang ka sa pagtanda mo dahil hindi mo naranasan ang kakaibang ligayang dulot ng mga araw na walang pasok o suspendido ang klase o absent ang teacher.”

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“…ayokong sabihing susubok naman ako ng iba. Walang “iba”. Wala akong iiwan, meron lang babalikan. Kung meron mang iba sa ginawa ko, yun ay ang Bobong Pinoy. Kung may magsasabi man sa hinaharap na: “Sana nagpatawa ka na lang!” Yun ay opinyong handa kong tanggapin. Marami ang kaya at pwedeng gumawa ng mga isinusulat ko ngayon para sa mga mambabasa, pero ang gusto kong isulat at gawin para sa sarili, walang pwedeng tumupad kundi ako. Inumpisahan ko ang dialogue sa ikatlong libro para ipakilala sa mambabasa ang fiction. Umatras pa ‘ko ng bahagya sa ikaapat para mas maging kumportable sila dito. Sa mga susunod pa, pwede na siguro ako magtangka ng maikling kwento o nobela. Tulad ng pagsusulat ko, ayoko rin kasi malimitahan ang pagbabasa ng mga tao sa iisang klase ng libro…”

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“iba ang informal gramar sa mali!!!”

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“Masama akong tao, tulad mo, sa parehong paraan na mabuti kang tao, tulad ko.”

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“Kung kabayo gagawa ng libro mahirap maging palaging politically correct para sa mga damo”

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“Kung ako ay isang walang kwentang manunulat, english ang isusulat ko, para kahit anu anu ang sabihin ko hindi na nila mahahalata.. Kaya nga ako nagsulat sa tagalog para maintindihan ng mambabasa ang lahat ng sinasabi ko”

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“Wag magmadali sa pag-aasawa. Tatlo, lima, sampung taon sa hinaharap, mag-iiba pa ang pamantayan mo at maiisip mong di pala tamang pumili ng kapareha dahil lang sa kaboses niya si Debbie Gibson o magaling mag-breakdance. Totoong mas importante ang kalooban ng tao higit anuman. Sa paglipas ng panahon, maging ang mga crush ng bayan sa eskwelahan e nagmumukha ring pandesal. Maniwala ka.”

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“Hikayatin mo lahat ng kakilala mo na magkaroon kahit isa man lang paboritong libro sa buong buhay nila..dahil wala ng mas nakakaawa pa sa mga taong literado pero hindi nagbabasa.”

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“Kung paniniwalaan namin kayo na hindi naglaro ng tubig kahit na basa ang damit n’yo, kayo ang niloloko namin; Hindi kayo ang nakapanloloko.”

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“Dalawang dekada ka lang mag-aaral. Kung ‘di mo pagtityagaan, limang dekada ng kahirapan ang kapalit. Sobrang lugi. Kung alam lang ‘yan ng mga kabataan, sa pananaw ko e walang gugustuhing umiwas sa eskwela.”

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“Para san ba ang cellphone na may camera? Kung kailangan sa buhay un, dapat matagal na kong patay.”

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“Iba ang walang ginagawa sa gumagawa ng wala”

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“Mas mabuting mabigo sa paggawa ng isang bagay kesa magtagumpay sa paggawa ng wala”

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“Titingnan mo ba ang basong kalahating bawas o kalahating puno?”

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“Hindi lahat ng kaya mong intindihin ay katotohan, at hindi lahat ng hindi mo kayang intindihin ay kasinungalingan”

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“Bakit ba ayaw matulog ng mga bata sa tanghali, alam ba nilang pag natuto silang umibig e hindi na sila makakatulog kahit gusto nila?”

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“Pare, isa kang totoong tao at walang halong kasinungalingan.”

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In English, FACT you, pare. Totoo ka. In English, FACT you!”

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” Kung nagmahal ka ng taong di dapat at nasaktan ka, wag mong sisihin ang puso mo. Tumitibok lng yan para mag-supply ng dugo sa katawan mo. Ngayon, kung magaling ka sa anatomy at ang sisisihin mo naman ay ang hypothalamus mo na kumokontrol ng emotions mo, mali ka pa rin! Bakit? Utang na loob! Wag mong isisi sa body organs mo ang mga sama ng loob mo sa buhay! Tandaan mo: Magiging masaya ka lang kung matututo kang tanggapin na hindi ang puso, utak, atay o bituka mo ang may kasalanan sa lahat ng nangyari sayo, kundi IKAW mismo! “

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” Mangarap ka at abutin mo. Wag mong sisihin ang sira mong pamilya, palpak mong syota, pilay mong tuta, o mga lumilipad na ipis. Kung may pagkukulang sa’yo mga magulang mo, pwde kang manisi at maging rebelde. Tumigil ka sa pag-aaral, mag-asawa ka, mag-drugs ka, magpakulay ka ng buhok sa kili-kili. Sa banding huli, ikaw din ang biktima. Rebeldeng walang napatunayan at bait sa sarili. “

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” Tuparin ang mga pangarap. Obligasyon mo yan sa sarili mo. Kung gusto mo mang kumain ng balde-baldeng lupa para malagay ka sa Guinness Book of World Records at maipagmalaki ng bansa natin, sige lang. Nosi balasi. Wag mong pansinin ang sasabihin ng mga taong susubok humarang sa’yo. Kung hindi nagsumikap ang mga scientist noon, hindi pa rin tayo dapat nakatira sa jupiter ngayon. Pero hindi pa rin naman talaga tayo nakatira sa jupiter dahil nga hindi nagsumikap ang mga scientist noon. Kita mo yung moral lesson? “

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” Sabi nila, sa kahit ano raw problema, isang tao lang ang makakatulong sa’yo – ang sarili mo. Tama sila. Isinuplong ako ng sarili ko. Kaya siguro namigay ng konsyensya ang Diyos, alam niyang hindi sa lahat ng oras e gumagana ang utak ng tao. “

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” Hikayatin mo lahat ng kakilala mo na magkaroon ng kahit isa man lang paboritong libro sa buhay nila. Dahil wala nang mas kawawa pa sa mga taong literado pero hindi nagbabasa. “

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“Kumain ka na ng siopao na may palamang pusa o maglakad sa bubog nang nakayapak, pero wag na wag kang susubok mag-drugs. Kung hindi mo kayang umiwas, humingi ka ng tulong sa mga magulang mo dahil alam nila kung saan ang mga murang supplier at hindi ka nila iisahan.”

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“Obligasyon kong maglayag, karapatan kong pumunta sa kung saan ko gusto, responsibilidad ko ang buhay ko.”

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“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.”

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“Masama akong tao, tulad mo, sa parehong paraan na mabuti kang tao, tulad ko.”

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“Hindi lungkot o takot ang mahirap sa pag-iisa kundi ang pagtanggap na sa bilyon-bilyong tao sa mundo, wala man lang nakipaglaban upang makasama ka.”

Bob Ong

don't wish for someone who would offer you the moon and the stars.

someone who would watch it with you is already enough.ü

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Curtis Judalet

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go..

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love -- love someone else..

Some of the greater things in life are unseen thats why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream...

"When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams."

Dr Seuss

The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

the only way you'll know how important something is in your life when it gets taken awayfrom you by someone who can take good care of you..

being drunk is real.

the most honest individual are those who drink to drown, coz they lose their social mask, no deceptions, no limits, no lies and that isn't weakness.

what people can't see is that because of intoxication, they become pure.ü

[i heard my friend says: "mabuhay ang mga lasenggo!" adik yun. haha]

"The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life."

--Sir Hugh Walpole

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

--Josiah G. Holland

..From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.

~ sana kami na talaga ng hubby ko :)

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

- Captain Corelli's Mandolin6. "Love is the beauty of the soul."
--St. Augustine

someday, we'll all be looking back to those days we learned to love, get hurt, cry and fight.

maybe, when that time comes, we'll be laughing at our old dumb selves, realizing how stupid we were to stand up for things we knew were not really meant for us.

but i guess, learning takes time and mistakes make one's journey fun.

life is what we make it.

love makes the world go round.

so let's live, love, and take whatever pain they brings..

Love is strange and quite unreliable.. you can be totally inlove with a guy/girl today and tomorrow, you can be completely confused. take things slow. it's best to just be friends.. that's how you can keep him in your life. you must have heard this about a million times, but i'll say it again..

TRUE LOVE WAITS.

...there's no need to rush anything. it would be a good idea to keep yourself open to opportunities and not to be tied down soon.

Remember: your first love may not be your last..

[i'm just so glad that i've found my one true love. mahal kita hubby ko!!]
[and i'm all yours.ü]

sa life, maraming pagpipilian..

pwedeng piliin kita..

pwedeng sila..

pwede rin kahit sino..

pero anung ikinaiba mo? [hubbykoh]

ewan ko..

basta ako,

mahal kita.

pinili kita.

paki nila! :D

good things are not meant to last forever..

but memories are what counts in life..

when there's nothing else left, it will be the memories that mean everything :)

the ironic thing is that..


the more you center your life on someone..




the more unattractive you become to that person..

WATER :P

hindi naman ako tubig..
































pero bakit kaya..






























andaming uhaw sa akin?! ahehehe xD

MEREDITH GREY talking about Love

"Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate... So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. Eventually feels a lot better than actually."

~ Ellen Pompeo as Dr. Meredit Grey
Grey's Anatomy™

Intimacy is a four syllable word for, "Here's my heart and soul, please grind them into hamburger, and enjoy." It's both desired, and feared. Difficult to live with, and impossible to live without. Intimacy also comes attached to the three R's... relatives, romance, and roommates. There are some things you can't escape. And other things you just don't want to know.
- Grey's

At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

- Meredith Grey

At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines... that are way too dangerous to cross..
- Meredith Grey

FACE YOUR FEARS!

Have you ever denied your feelings for someone else just because your fear of rejection was hard to handle?

We tell lies when we are afraid. Afraid of what we know, what others will think, what will be found out about us…

But every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

Life is all about risks and it requires you to jump. Don’t just be a person who has to look back and wonder what they would have, or could have had because they did not took the risk.

Think about it. Taking risks means you’re tough enough to handle things on your own.

PAGMAMAHAL. . .

tunay na pagmamahal?

kalimitan lang ang byahe niyan..

kaya dapat, bilisan mo sa pagsakay. kasi baka hindi mo na alam kung kailan ulit siya babalik. at kung bumalik man, huli na ang lahat para sumama ka pa sa byahe.

kaya dapat, habang nadidinig mo pa ang busina niya, huwag ka nang magdadalawang isip pa.. para hindi dumating ang panahon na pagsisisihan mo kung bakit mo pinalampas ang pinakamahalagang byahe sa buhay mo.ü

LOVE is..

LOVE is just a word. until someone came into your life and give it a proper meaning.ü

Love represents a range of emotions and experiences related to the senses of affection and sexual attraction. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. This diversity of meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.

As an abstract concept love usually refers to a strong, ineffable feeling towards another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

The English word love can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts. Often, other languages use multiple words to express some of the different concepts which English relies mainly on love to encapsulate; one example is the plurality of Greek words for "love". Cultural differences in conceptualizing love thus make it doubly difficult to establish any universal definition. American psychologist Zick Rubin try to define love by the psychometrics. His work states that three factors constitute love: attachment, caring and intimacy.

Although the nature or essence of love is a subject of frequent debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't "love". As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more emotionally intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is commonly contrasted with friendship, though other definitions of the word love may be applied to close friendships in certain contexts. When discussed in the abstract, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself.

In addition to cross-cultural differences in understanding love, ideas about love have also changed greatly over time. Some historians date modern conceptions of romantic love to courtly Europe during or after the Middle Ages, though the prior existence of romantic attachments is attested by ancient love poetry. Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to The Beatles' "All you need is love". Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value", as opposed to relative value. Theologian Thomas Jay Oord said that to love is to "act intentionally, in sympathetic response to others, to promote overall well-being".

A person can be said to love a country, principle, or goal if they value it greatly and are deeply committed to it. Similarly, compassionate outreach and volunteer workers' "love" of their cause may sometimes be borne not of interpersonal love, but impersonal love coupled with altruism and strong political convictions. People can also "love" material objects, animals, or activities if they invest themselves in bonding or otherwise identifying with that item. If sexual passion is also involved, this condition is called paraphilia.

~ Love indeed comes from a variety of meaning. and thru this blog, i`m gonna spread its meaning, preferences, experiences, and other related topics [as to quotable quotes] about LOVE. and as what the bible says [for believers and non believers]:

There are three great things that will endure -- faith, hope and love -- and the greatest of these is LOVE.

1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT