"I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough."

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Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.144, Macmillan

Miguel Syjuco

#Home Quotes #Long Quotes #Champion Quotes

“Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering through my sheer joy in all that is beautiful, a sense of its creator . . . Only man can be truly ugly, because he has the free will to estrange himself from this song of praise. It often seems that he'll manage to drown out this hymn with his cannon thunder, curses and blasphemy. But during this past spring it has dawned upon me that he won't be able to do this. And so I want to try and throw myself on the side of the victor.”
“When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.”
“Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.”
“Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.”
“After learning to love God (worship), learning to love others is the second purpose of your life.”
“This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.”

Source : Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]
“The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.”
“That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.”

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