Best Roxas Quotes & Sayings

The time we were together, we were the best we can be for each other. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

No story is complete until it is written. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Jesus never wrote a book; never went outside his country. His only legacy was to never compromise the good. And it was more than enough for the world. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

You grieve at first. And then slowly, with the yawning of the years, the disappeared gets scraped from your memory, the way your flesh can be peeled from your limbs. It's very harsh and extremely painful. But it gets done, square inch-by-square inch. Until, the skin that is your memory gets completely scarred and numbed. You live. The disappeared is detached from the dermis of remembering. And that is what is known as moving on. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Hate is a very strong, pure emotion to be wasted on people you don't care about. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

There are places I cannot visit. Places of unbearable sadness, grief, mourning. They say places are made by people. I say places are defined by the memories they conjure - the lunge of a curse, a shared and shattered history, a loved one drowned and lost in the ocean of forgetting. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried in grief if that is what it takes to restore the imbalance you have wrought unto the world. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Kindness is fate's currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Fathers are the future's keepers, as it was in the beginning when the only begotten Son became Father to Man and the Great Circle of Father to Son; Son to Father began. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Do you feel it? It's a heightening of the senses, the kind that immobilizes a cat crossing the street, transfixed by the blinding headlights of a speeding car. You know you have to head for cover, run as far and as fast as your legs can carry you. But you can't. You just have to know what's coming - even if it kills you. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Memory is all that matters in the end — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

I've always wondered why women are expected to deny their true age. Why? To be a woman of 50 and up is a badge of triumph - a hard-earned certificate that says you survived the shallowness, the violence, the meanness, and the caprice of a male-dominated society without losing your mind! — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

YOU CAN TRUST YOUR LOVE ONE, BUT NOT EVERYONE AROUND THEM. — Marlon Roxas

One of the most enduring lessons I learned in my youth: Activists do not save the masses. The masses save themselves. Activists, like politicians, are just there to take credit for it. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

27. So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in my generation. We were taught and reared and molded to keep that stiff upper lip and to never explain in public how deeply some people have hurt us. I cannot get away from that mold. I am comfortable in it. I derive my sanity from it. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Guess life is really a road marked by crossroads. It's not the long and winding stretches that will hurt you the most. It's the crossroads. You make a bad choice and it's a tumble and a rumble before you get back on your feet again. But you'll get back on your feet. You'll find yourself. And then you'll be off to your next adventure (crossroads, I mean). In my case, I always had a safety net - my faith in God. But then, I'm more like the millions of simple folk who travel this world. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough to speak the truth; that it is bravery enough. Every mountain leveled to the ground, every forest burned, every man, woman, and child who lost their shanties to arsonist fires were defended to the heavens - with words. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

You can change your life or not change it.
It really doesn't matter in the end.
Life as humans live it is too fleeting,
too incidental, too miniscule
for the universe to keep forever.
So just do good to others; be good, all
because it makes you happy,
happy beyond fame, power, and
eternity. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Writers, when they're good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they leave the earth, like having the windows shut for good. Where will the world be without good writers? — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

There is my truth. There is your truth. And there is their truth. The absolute truth is with God. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

It is in the little moments that we live the longest. Everything else is existence. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The most difficult lesson is not being bitter - that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just taking, never giving. So the universe gives a boon to a few lucky souls: Who they love will love them back - all their lives. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

I firmly believe that if you pray long enough, if you wish hard enough, God will grant you at least one wish in your lifetime. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

They say you start weaving clearer, sharper memories after you've been to a place at least twice. Because then the reflection is more of validation. Let the rush come to you and let your senses be flushed the first time. There will be time for reflection after you've had your fill. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza