"Forgo if rejected,
Forgive if unloved,.
For God if disrespected. Ipa sa Diyos."
(Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish Priest)
"It is when you go over a thought over and over, often with regret or guilt. You can give yourself a compassionate self-talk and/or go into distraction activity that is cognitively absorbing, outside your regular wheelhouse and productive." (Psychology Today)
That's Sara Duterte, according to her spokesperson, Christina Frasco. Sure had furious hands on that sheriff a few years back!
Navotas Mayor Toby Tiangco quipped how apt to jab prisoners belonging to the Sputnik gang with the vaccine from Russia.
"As my friend Maud once said, 'There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the other person, but because if you don't speak, they have changed you.'"
At the entrance gate of a university in South Africa is this message:
"Destroying any nation doesn't require the use of atomic bombs or long-range missiles. It only requires lowering the quality of education and allowing cheating in the examinations of the students.
Patients die at the hands of such doctors.
Buildings collapse at the hands of such engineers.
Money is lost at the hands of such economists and accountants.
Humanity dies at the hands of such religious scholars.
Justice is lost at the hands of such judges.
The collapse of education is the collapse of the nation."
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
"Get married (before 30- when you are ready).
Retire with ($5M- loads of memories).
Become an (entrepreneur- influencer).
Fall in love with someone who (is beautiful- has inner beauty).
Make your parents proud of how (much you earned- happy you are).
Make (many- real) friends.
Find happiness in (luxury- the ordinary).
Find someone you (can live with- cannot live without).
Forgive everyone (who apologizes- even without an apology).
Spend more time (working- in nature).
Keep a daily to (do- be) list.
Stick to a (strict diet- healthy lifestyle)."
Power of Positivity
"To an Obliger- prone to burn-out, ask to go off early...
To a Questioner- limit communication to email, allow to choose, just give deadline
To an Upholder- just give direction, lessen rigidity
To a Rebel- get in touch with self, state consequence/s." Gretchen Rubin, Happy Guru
