Quotable Quotes

Be like a postage stamp – stick to one thing until you get there. ~Josh Billings Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground – not a flying carpet to set you free from probability. ~Robertson Davies, The Manticore Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. ~Corrie [...]

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

For John Vlachoulis: Absence makes the heart grow fonder, as the popular cliché goes. I have firsthand experience to attest this claim. This long distance thing is, without a doubt, painful, but my adoration for you just continues to blossom. Our love for each other is so amazing that I, myself, could hardly believe that [...]

Watch or Read “Message in a Bottle” by Nicholas Sparks

Message in a Bottle is one of the most incredible and finest novels written by Nicholas Sparks. The story starts when a woman, named Theresa Osborne, who is a newspaper columnist, goes to Cape Cod on her break from work, and finds a bottle washed ashore. Inside the bottle is a letter that unfolds an [...]

A Simple Lesson from a Simple Story

“Once you are real, you cannot be ugly, except for those people who do not understand you.” ~ Skin Horse (from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams)

Eleven Minutes by Paolo Coelho

The title “Eleven Minutes” (a novel written by Paolo Coelho) refers to what the author’s main character Maria finds out about the sexual act: it takes only eleven minutes on average to finish but people are just so obsessed with it. This is a book seemingly about sex, and all the good and bad associated [...]

Thoughts of a Blood Donor

(This is a poem I read in a pamphlet about blood donation… I’ve thought of sharing this with you.) I gave my blood, Christ gave His. I gave a pint. He gave all. The needle is small and sharp. the nails were large and dull. The cot is soft and restful. The cross, rough and [...]

The Self-Esteem Issues

It seems like no matter what I do I’m never happy with myself no matter what. *Why am I not as pretty and appealing as the other girls? *Why am I too thin? *Why don’t I have big breasts and butt? *Why can’t I look like that? *Why can’t I speak as good as them? [...]

I Wish

I wish I could step back in time, I wish I could return to a place in the long life line, I wish I could really say sorry but it’s too late Given that I’ve already muddled up… And I wish I could just accept who I was from the very start. I wanted to [...]

The Concept of Loss

I’ve been trying to write a good poem, but the words won’t come out. It’s like grief lodges this huge obstruction into the opening in which my creativity escapes through. Long before, I used to write poems easily especially for my dad, or out of hatred and frustration, but now, it’s been too difficult. I [...]

Discover Yourself

Everyone around me seems to be completely oblivious to their own being.   Everyone around me seems to rely on everyone else to decide who they are, what they like, and what their existence means.  And it’s these very people who irritate me beyond anything else.  The current theory is that the human mind is a [...]