Winning the high jump requires one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot.

Talent for talent’s sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to a new power as a benefactor. – Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You’ve got to keep working that talent.” – Irving Berlin

“No matter the size of the bottle, the cream always rises to the top.” – Novelist Charles Wilson

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” -Stephen King

Talent is a God-given gift that should be celebrated. When we observe talented people:

1. We Should Marvel at Their Giftedness
2. We Should Recognize Their Contribution to Society
3. We Should Separate What They Can Do from Who They Are

JOHN MAXWELL’S BELIEFS

1. Everyone Has Talent
2. Develop the Talent You Have, Not the One You Want
3. Anyone Can Make Choices That Will Add Value to Talent

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

I’ve discovered thirteen key choices that can be made to maximize any person’s talent:

• Belief lifts your talent.
• Passion energizes your talent.
• Initiative activates your talent.
• Focus directs your talent.
• Preparation positions your talent.
• Practice sharpens your talent.
• Perseverance sustains your talent.
• Courage tests your talent.
• Teachability expands your talent.
• Character protects your talent.
• Relationships influence your talent.
• Responsibility strengthens your talent.
• Teamwork multiplies your talent.

Make these choices, and you can become a talent-plus person. If you have talent, you stand alone. If you have talent plus, you stand out.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

Disclaimer: I’ve taken these lines from John Maxwell’s book, Talent Is Never Enough. I posted them in my blog to share it with others and may they learn from these. If you haven’t read it, I suggest you do so. It’s one of the books really worth reading.

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

2. “Huwag mong bitawan ang bagay na hindi mo kayang makitang hawak ng iba.”

3. “Huwag mong hawakan kung alam mong bibitawan mo lang.”

4. “Huwag na huwag ka hahawak kapag alam mong may hawak ka na.”

5. “Parang elevator lang yan eh, bakit mo pagsisiksikan ung sarili mo kung walang pwesto para sayo. Eh meron naman hagdan, ayaw mo lang pansinin.”

6. “Kung maghihintay ka nang lalandi sayo, walang mangyayari sa buhay mo.. Dapat lumandi ka din.”

7. “Pag may mahal ka at ayaw sayo, hayaan mo. Malay mo sa mga susunod na araw ayaw mo na din sa kanya, naunahan ka lang.”

8. “Hiwalayan na kung di ka na masaya. Walang gamot sa tanga kundi pagkukusa.”

9. “Pag hindi ka mahal ng mahal mo wag ka magreklamo. Kasi may mga tao rin na di mo mahal pero mahal ka.. Kaya quits lang.”

10. “Kung dalawa ang mahal mo, piliin mo yung pangalawa. Kasi hindi ka naman magmamahal ng iba kung mahal mo talaga yung una.”

11. “Hindi porke’t madalas mong ka-chat, kausap sa telepono, kasama sa mga lakad o ka-text ng wantusawa eh may gusto sayo at magkakatuluyan kayo. Meron lang talagang mga taong sadyang friendly, sweet, flirt, malandi, pa-fall o paasa.”

12. “Huwag magmadali sa babae o lalaki. Tatlo, lima, sampung taon, mag-iiba ang pamantayan mo at maiisip mong hindi pala tamang pumili ng kapareha dahil lang maganda o gwapoo. Totoong mas mahalaga ang kalooban ng tao higit sa anuman. Sa paglipas ng panahon, maging ang mga crush ng bayan nagmumukha ding pandesal, maniwala ka.”

13. “Minsan kahit ikaw ang nakaschedule, kailangan mo pa rin maghintay, kasi hindi ikaw ang priority.”

14. “Mahirap pumapel sa buhay ng tao. Lalo na kung hindi ikaw yung bida sa script na pinili nya.”

15. “Alam mo ba kung gaano kalayo ang pagitan ng dalawang tao pag nagtalikuran na sila? Kailangan mong libutin ang buong mundo para lang makaharap ulit ang taong tinalikuran mo.”

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

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

18. “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!”

19. “Ang pag-ibig parang imburnal…nakakatakot mahulog…at kapag nahulog ka, it’s either by accident or talagang tanga ka..”

I logged on to my Facebook, just now after days of not doing so. ?? This is what greeted me in my Profile.

The last three characters from the question is my Korean name(WordPress can’t recognize them and they’d end up as “???” if I type it. ) and the girl who answered the question said that I’m like chocolates because her daughter is sweet. :P Awww. She is my classmate and blockmate before she shifted courses, and she treats me like a daughter, while I treat her like a mom. We all are like family at school, and my role always ended up being a daughter. :haha And yeah, we are close friends. Haha. It’s kinda funny when I think about it, and it always had been. I miss her. I miss those moments. *sniffs*

“I hate how coofee turns into an addiction & how it keeps you up all night, how it burns & makes your heart beat fast, especially how it makes you crave for its rich & sweet promises of grains, milk & sugar. Moments later, it puts you into a melancholic mood of coldness before you realize, it has consumed you before you should have consumed it.

Empty. Hollow. Bitter.

Then again.. You crave for another cup.

Just like love.”

“Feelings are made to be expressed, it is not meant to be helpless nor kept.. Don’t be a loser without fighting, never make regrets for yourself to suffer, because you know what? SILENCE hurts more.”

“True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist..
Nor can it be hidden where it truly does…”

“Love is how you live even where you are dead” -Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)

” We can’t have everything in life… At times we end up losing the ones we love in ways we never imagine… We have to accept things and learn to live with the pain for the rest of our life….”

“Why do I love you so much?
It’s so easy I just can’t answer.”

“Distance is just a test to see how far love can travel.” -Anonymous

“Perfect LOVE comes when two imperfect persons joined together asone; Living each day with their imperfections.”

“When you love, you thought it would never end, but sometimes you need to be tired to realize that love too can end, especially if it wasn’t meant..”

“Immature love says “I love you because i need you”. Mature love says “I need you because I love you”"

“When you love just be honest! Remember that it is better to tell the truth to make someone cry than to make someone heppy by telling a lie.”

“You’ll know that a guy loves you if he wouldn’t hurt you no matter how much you hurt him… And you’ll know how much you love him if you don’t hurt him even if you know you can…”

“In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.”

“I don’t pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

“Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would like better than to hold on to him forever. But I know it’s not for the best. So no matter how much my heart is going to break, I’ve got to let him go so he can know just how much I love him. Maybe if I’m lucky, he’ll come back, but if not, I can make it through this.”

“It’s so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it’s not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it…. In our hands.”

“It’s hard to assume your position on somebody’s life. You might be expecting too much. Something far from reality. So learn to weigh the situation, know your stand and keep things in balance. Because the hardest to deal with is failure, and the hardest to endure is pain.”

“There is no “not meant for each other” Only time did not let it happen… There is no perfect match, there is no perfect love, there is no perfect girl, there is no perfect gay, there is no perfect guy.. only imperfect people doing extraordary love. To love is gamble. Love is a matter of choice not destiny. Love is Love.”

“Sometimes, we’re so focused on finding our happy ending. We don’t learn how to read the signs, how to tell from the ones who want us and the ones who don’t, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. And maybe a happy ending doesn’t include a guy. Maybe it’s you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is just moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this; after all the unreturned phone calls, broken hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment, you never gave up hope.”

“Some say love is blind… But actually, it’s not… It makes a person see something that an ordinary person cannot see…”

“Love comes to those who still hope even though they’ve been disappointed, to those who believe even though they’ve been betrayed, to those who still love even though they’ve hurt before. Love is for the battle-scarred survivors of life.”

“Bakit pag may gusto tayo kelangan iwanan natin yung iba para lang makuha yun? Pero pag andyan na, saka mo lng malalaman na yung taong iniwan mo ay minsan na ring iniwan ang lahat-lahat sa buhay para lang sayo…”

“They say when love knocks on your door,open it. But do you know that sometimes love enters through the backdoor and before you begin to notice it, its on its way out.”

“The truth hurts for awhile but lies hurt forever.”

“Love knows no reasons, love knows no lies. Love defies all reasons, love has no eyes. But love is not blind,
love sees but doesn’t mind.”

“Pag wala siya, sa akin ka tatawag. Pag wala siya, sa akin ka pupunta. Pag wala siya, sa akin ka iiyak. Pero alam mo, malungkot pa rin ako… Kasi, alam ko, kahit wala siya… Pangalawa pa rin ako…”

1. Always remember that when we lose someone we love, there will be pain in our hearts. But when there is pain, there will be strength and courage, and with that, there will always be the hope of finding someone who will love us and someone we can love even more.

2. Sometimes we just have to control our feelings for someone. Truth is, our feelings doesn’t know what’s right or wrong. That’s why our minds reason with us so there can be balance. Otherwise, we would always trip as we aimlessly follow what our hearts dictate.

3. A relationship will always need trust and faith. Trust, so you could keep a relationship strong, and faith, so you can build a strong foundation of love that could weather all storms to make it last for as long as you wish to.

4. A relationship is a two way street. It’s never all your fault, nor is it all the fault of your partner. Both of you have to work together to make it work. And, remember, the best relationship is one in which your LOVE exceeds your NEEDS for reach other.

5. Letting go of someone you love is hard, but holding on to someone who doesn’t even feel the same is much harder. Remember that giving up doesn’t mean you are weak. It only means that you are strong eonugh to let go of something that was never really yours in the first place.

6. Live not on what your heart dictates but on what is right and sensible. There is still time to turn away from what is wrong. Remember, the true joy of living is not only in loving ourselves but in loving w/o hurting other people.

7. Even with all the pain that comes with loving, we should never let our hearts wallow in anger. When love comes into our lives, be thankful. But when it leaves us, even if it’s against our will, we should only be sorry or a while. There should be no room for our hatred to grow in our hearts.

8. As it has always been said, we should embrace love when it comes knocking on our doors and willingly let go of it when it says goodbye. We shouldn’t regret that we’ve lost it. Be thankful that for once in our lives it has dwelled in our hearts and made us happy.

9. If we pass on love today, there may never be a next day to show it and even if there’s still a next day, there may never be someone to show it to. Love is never afraid. It should not hold you from showing someone how you feel. If it does, then it is not love.

10. Loving someone with all our hearts isn’t all that it takes to make a relationship last. Sometimes, even if we prove our worth in many ways, seen and unseen, we still cannot guarantee of permanence and loyalty in our relationships.

11. Sometimes, loving someone means giving him/her the freedom to choose who and where he/she wants to be. This may be painful, but still be thankful, because the heartaches, the tears, the gloomy days and even the fruitless years helped you grow into a strong and wonderful person, not a bitter one.

12. Remember that love will only find its way back when we start giving others the chance to share a little of themselves with us. We may be miserable for a while but there will always be someone out there who will break us free from the pain that keeps us rom taking the chance to love again.

13. GOD always has a reason for letting things happen. When HE takes away something from us, it doesn’t mean that HE wants to deprive us. It just means that HE wants to give us something much better.

14. The best way to keep a reationship is not in magnifying its faults and flaws but in looking at the good it has done and strengthening it with love, tust and respect.

15. When you have exhausted everything in your capacity to love, then that is the time to forgive yourself and rest on the fact that it was better to have lost love fighting for it than to have given up on it because you were afraid to get hurt.

16. Let us always remember that no matter how regretful the outcome of loving someone might have been, its still better than not having loved at all. We become better persons when we learn from our mistakes.

17. Sometimes its’s good that we let the pain we feel remain for a time. Let it be the medium for the healing of our hearts. Forgive and the pain will go away, accept and have a new turn in life and love again until we find the person who can share forever with us.

18. Those who are not afraid to take the risk of loving are the only ones who are liberated from their fears. Let us always remember that true love knows no fears. True love is brave enough to take the risk. True love is strong enought to speak up.

19. Sometimes letting a person know how much he/she means to us is the best favor that we can give ourselves. If that person accepts us then we’re free to explore all possibilities. But if that person turns away and avoids us then it just means that our love is meant or someone else.

20. Ailing relationships can only be saved by love. If love is gone then there is no point in living a lie. Search your heart and feel for it. If it isn’t there anymore then you just have to be honest about it. Otherwise you’ll be livig in a world full of pretentions.

21. Love is not ruined by a single failure or won by a single touch. It is lifetime endeavor in which we are always learning, discovering and growing.

22. Real love isn’t measured by the satisaction that a person gets from a relationship. Relationships are built solely on the fulfillment of one’s personal desires don’t last. Those that do are built on the foundation of love, understanding, acceptance, and most importantly, respect.

23. When people walk away from you. let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anybody who leaves you. And it doesn’t mean that their are bad persons. It just means that their part in your story is over.. ( i guess, it would be easier to accept if we always bear this in mind after a heartbreak…)

Will I be there to make you strong and to lean on?
When this world has turned so cold
Will I be the one that’s there to hold?

/* Some quotes just to help get through stuff: break ups, confusion, friends, and life in general */

I’m a liar because I wont tell you everything
I’m stupid because sometimes im wrong
I’m ugly because my face isn’t perfect
I’m a pushover because I like making people happy
I’m a loser because I’m a not friend with your group
I’m fake because I’m too nice
I’m weird because I’m not like you
I’m fat because I eat when I’m hungry.
I’m clingy because I don’t like to be alone
I’m insecure because I care about what people think of me.
I’m no fun because I’m not always hyper
Don’t try to tell me who I am
Because
I already know.

LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST
Love the people who care about you
Forget about the ones that don’t
Take chances & realize that nothing
In life ever comes easily

Sometimes, you just have to stop caring
You have to turn off all emotion & feeling
To protect yourself from getting hurt,
You Have to stop [[caring]] about what other people
Think of you & be yourself: sometimes,
You have to hide it all — not let anyone
Know how you feel or what you think
You have to put a s m i l e on your face
& Pretend everything is fine . Even when, it’s not…
sometimes that’s the only way to
Save yourself from —x–>> a b r o k e n heart.

Trying to forget someone that you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.

& if you’re not getting answers,
ask better questions — cartel

& it turns out, you can’t save
people from themselves – Scrubs

“Love is when he is mean to you and you still want him, it’s when he ignores you and you still love him, it’s when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I’m happy for you, when all you really want to do is cry.”

“A wise girl asks but doesn’t believe
kisses but doesn’t fall in love
& leaves before she gets left” – Marilyn Monroe

& at the end of the day, you either focus
on what’s tearing you apart or what’s
h o l d i n g y o u t o g e t h e r

“But most of all, I hate
the way i don’t hate you at all”
–10 things I hate about you

But then there’s that one person. You let them in & you trust them & you think maybe, just maybe, everything you’ve ever gone through is worth it cause you found someone on this messed up planet who knows you.

Do you want to know what my problem is?
I will tell you what my problem is… I love you. I love your name, I love the way you look at me, I love your gorgeous smile, I love the way you walk, I love your beautiful eyes, I love the sound of your laugh, i love the way you get mad, i love the way i dont understand you at all. I love the way I can be having the worst day of my life and seeing you completely changes my mood. I love how when you touch me I get weak,
thats my problem.

happiness is the secret to
all beauty … there is no
beauty that is attractive
without happiness

Have you ever really thought about it?
You’ve got this girl, head over heels in love with you. She’d do anything for you. But for some reason, you don’t want to see that. You know it’s there, but you just wont accept it so you try to make her go away. — maybe this girl is perfect for you.
And that really scares the hell outta you, doesn’t it?

He’ll pick on you to see you smile but wont say a thing to make you cry. He’ll brush the hair out of your eyes. He’ll stare at you during the movies, even though he paid $8 to see it. He’ll call to say goodnight or just cause he is thinking of you. He’ll look in your eyes and tell you, you’re beautiful, and for the first time in your life, you’ll believe it.

i like to pretend everything’s alright
because when everyone thinks you’refine
sometimes you forget for a while
t h a t y o u ‘ r e n o t

I keep thinking of how much I love talking to you.
How good you look when you smile.
How much I love your laugh.
I day-dream about you off and on,
replaying pieces of our conversation;
laughing at funny things that you said or did.
I’ve memorized your face &&
the way that you look at me.
I catch myself smiling again at what I imagine.
I wonder what will happen the next time we are together
& even though nothing will come out of this,
I know one thing for sure, for once, I dont care,
I cherish every moment I have with you.

I suppose I’m a little bit scared. You might not like it that I felt so much for him. But that was then. You are here now.
You make me and define me. It’s over after all but he’s still a part of me. And I want you to know all about it, so there are no secrets.

If you can’t solve it, it isn’t a problem - it’s reality.
And sometimes reality is the hardest thing to understand and the thing that takes the longest to realize. But once it hits you in the face you’ll never forget it. It will always be there in your memories and sometimes that is the best way to look at it.

In this weird twisted way, I know you miss me liking you, not because I want to believe it’s true, but because you’ll never find a girl that can put up with you like I did; you’ll never find a girl who will care as much as I did, because no one will waste all their love on someone like you, like I did.

In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are the few you wish you never had to think about again.
But you do.

never settle for average –
it’s just as close to the bottom
as it is to the top
it’s [ better ] to cross a line
& suffer the consequences
than to just stare at the line
for the rest of your l i f e

It’s YOU. You mean everything to me… you are the first thought in my head in the morning when I wake up; my last thought before I go to bed. You smile at me in my dreams… when you are sad, I feel sad, and when I see your true smile, I feel incredible, like there is no other thing around and all I can see is you.

knowing is better than wondering
waking is better than sleeping
& even the biggest failure
beats the hell
out of never trying

Life is for having fun. Don’t be stupid and waste it on someone who is gonna act like they hate you tomorrow. Never waste it on some one who doesn’t want their friends to know they’re in love with you. Don’t give that person the rest of you tears or a month or a year of your life when they treats you badly and doesn’t mind making you cry. Every person deserves some one who wants to brag about them. Babe, dont fool yourself. You deserve so much better than that.

Love hurts. I say that because I know. Love is… or was amazing. It’s an
incredible feeling to know what he’s going to say. It’s more incredible the way he has me on the edge of my seat because he’s so completely random, I never know what’s coming next. It’s hard to explain, but he filled some void in me, and now, without him, I’m missing something again. I wonder if it will ever truly, whole heartedly be filled again. I just don’t want to know what it’s like to hurt any more…

NEVER apologize for saying what you feel
because [[ that's ]] like saying
” s o r r y f o r b e i n g r e a l “

Love? We think about it, sing about it, dream about it, lose sleep worrying about it. When we don’t have it, we search for it; when we discover it, we don’t know what to do with it; when we have it, we fear losing it. It is the constant source of pleasure and pain. Be we can’t predict which it will be from one moment to the next. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define, impossible to live without.]]> http://rawrbie.com/for-everything-you-do/feed/ 0