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Miriam Defensor Santiago Quotes

Philippine - Academic, Author, Judge, Lawyer, Scholar, Stateswoman (Served in all three branches of the Philippine government: judicial, executive, and legislative.) - June 15, 1945 - September 29, 2016

12 Quotes Of Miriam Defensor Santiago

Await occasions and never hurry.


Life is a consequence of our moral choices.


Hindi lahat ng sweet ay loyal sa’yo. Tandaan, sweet nga ang candy, pero nakabalot naman sa plastic.


In a corrupt country, if you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience under control.


A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman.


It is wrong to think that happiness is a series of unrelated experiences. On the contrary, happiness is an ordered whole characterizing an entire life.


What is the meaning of life? This meaning is not for you to find, but for you to define. The meaning of life is found in the purposes that we pursue as we grow older.


I have no illusions about myself, about my life, about leaving a legacy, or making a mark in people's lives. We are so insignificant. We are only here for a blink.


Dare beyond your strength, hazard beyond your judgment, and in extremities, proceed in excellent hope. Bare the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.


In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader.


Before I formulate an opinion, I try as a scholar and as an academician to read entire libraries on the topic and to listen to as many people as possible, regardless of whether they are savants or plain fools. However, once I have formed an opinion, I no longer want to change it. Only experience can tell me whether I'm right or I'm wrong. If I'm right, I will gloat a little bit about it. If I'm wrong, then I will excoriate myself, I will apologize publicly.


In my approaching old age, I am now supposed to share with you what life has taught me, and in the end to encapsulate for you what is the meaning of life. From where I am now, I find that these conundrums are easily answered. First, life teaches us that, whether we perceive it as predestined or as random, it is beyond any person's control. Second, there is no template for the meaning of life. Instead, the meaning of life is what you choose to make it mean. In making your choice, when you reach my age, your journey becomes an affirmation of the warning that life is a consequence of our moral choices.

Miriam Defensor Santiago Choices

In my approaching old age,

I am now supposed to share

with you what life has taught me,

and in the end to encapsulate

for you what is the meaning of life.

From where I am now,

I find that these conundrums

are easily answered.

First, life teaches us that,

whether we perceive it as predestined or as random,

it is beyond any person's control.

Second, there is no template for the meaning of life.

Instead, the meaning of life

is what you choose to make it mean.

In making your choice, when you reach my age,

your journey becomes an affirmation

of the warning

that life is a consequence of our moral choices.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

Miriam Defensor Santiago Circumstances

Dare beyond your strength,

hazard beyond your judgment,

and in extremities,

proceed in excellent hope.

Bare the accidents of life

with dignity and grace,

making the best of circumstances.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

Miriam Defensor Santiago What Is Life?

What is the meaning of life?

This meaning is not for you to find,

but for you to define.

The meaning of life is

found in the purposes

that we pursue as we grow older.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

Miriam Defensor Santiago Happiness

It is wrong to think

that happiness is a series of

unrelated experiences.

On the contrary,

happiness is an ordered

whole characterizing an entire life.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

Miriam Defensor Santiago Corrupt Country

In a corrupt country,

if you want to succeed in politics,

you must keep your conscience under control.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

Cesare Pavese Quotes

Italian - Poet - September 9, 1908 - August 27, 1950
  
5 Quotes Of Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.


We do not remember days, we remember moments.


No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.


If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.


Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Cesare Pavese Life And Math

Living is like working out a long addition sum,

and if you make a mistake

in the first two totals

you will never find the right answer.

It means involving oneself

in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese How To Travel Light

If you wish to travel far and fast,

travel light.

Take off all your envies,

jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese One Thing

One must look for

one thing only,

to find many.

Cesare Pavese

Quotes From Ancient Chinese Proverbs

Ancient Chinese Proverbs

2 Quotes From Ancient Chinese Proverbs


An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle. But it will never break.


When sleeping women wake, mountains move.

Ancient Chinese Proverb Sleeping Women

When sleeping women

wake,

mountains move.

Ancient Chinese Proverb

Imran Khan Muslims And Islam

I felt like the Islamic scholar

Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905),

who said on his return from

a trip to Europe to his homeland Egypt

'I saw no Muslims in Europe

but I saw a lot of Islam,'

and of his homeland

'There are a lot of Muslims here but no Islam.'

Imran Khan

Imran Khan Allama Iqbal Justice Freedom

Iqbal not only conceived

of a self-governing Muslim state,

his passionate voice awakened

and activated Indian Muslims,

motivating them not only

to strive to free themselves

from the bondage of

imperialism and colonialism,

but also to challenge

other forms of totalitarian control.

Believing fervently in human equality

and the right of human beings to dignity,

justice and freedom,

Iqbal empowered the dis-empowered

to stand up and be counted.

Imran Khan

Imran Khan Never Give Up

Never give up,

no matter how hard life gets

no matter how much pain you feel.

Pain will eventually subside,

nothing remains forever,

so keep going and don't give up.

Imran Khan

Imran Khan Responsibility

A leader should always

be ready

to take responsibility

for his decisions.

Imran Khan

Imran Khan Asked Pakistanis Of Four Things

Imran Khan asked Pakistanis of four things at the historic Lahore gathering.

1. We shall never lie and always speak the truth.

2. Leave our ego’s behind and only think of this Nation,
there are 11 crore Pakistanis living beneath poverty line.

3. We shall be brave and break the shackles of fear.

4. We have to bring Justice to this society,
even if our friends and relatives do injustice,
we shall be fair and bring them to Justice.

Imran Khan

Imran Khan True Leader And Courage

A leader must have

the courage

to take bold decisions

and stand by them.

Imran Khan

Imran Khan Poor Man Vs Rich Man

A condemned poor man,

if steals to feed his starving kid,

is slammed into prison.

Contrast this to a rich man's crime.

Imran Khan

A.R. Lucas Quotes

A.R. Lucas is a writer and a dreamer. Born: ??? (I am still searching for real A.R. Lucas and more info on this creative mind)

8 Quotes Of A.R. Lucas


Maybe I'm just doomed to love you, and I find the irony in that to be exceptionally beautiful.


You say I'm the kind of boy that sad girls run away with, but this time I'm not running, because you're the kind of girl that wild boys settle down for.


It's a wicked sort of madness, isn't it? To live this life searching for who you are in a world where people are told who they should to be.


Don't ever think yourself bigger than another life, little human. Time makes us all prey eventually.


You were there when I was at my worst. A time in my life when I truly believed that the world hated me as much as I hated myself. Yet even then you let me into your heart like it was nothing more than a door. For the first time in my life I feel as though I have found a human who'll stay until the end, and for that I'll never be grateful enough. Thank you for holding this fragmented heart together. Sad boys like me desperately need love like this from a girl like you. Thank You.


Keep your clothes on tonight, my darling. let your skin rest. there are other ways of loving.


We've been infected with this idea that love is an emotion only felt between two people. But love is universal. an energy. a contagious force. a gift. To offer money to a homeless man is to love. To save a worm from the sun is to love. To smile at a stranger is love. To be grateful, to be hopeful, to be brave, to be forgiving, to be proud, is to love.


I'm attracted to intelligence. Don't get me wrong, a perfectly crafted body will certainly get my attention, but I'll get bored with it. I always do. I need you to outsmart me. Make me feel like I could learn from you, grow with you. Do that and you have me forever.
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