One Tree Hill quote

Most of our lives is a series of images.
They pass us like towns in a highway, but sometimes the moment stuns us as it happens.
We know that this instance is more than just a fleeting image.
We know that this moment, every part of it will live on forever.

Some of us live our lives in a rush...
We go through our busy routines, spend our free time indulging in our passion, and just do anything to pleasure us. We meet strangers, shake hands with superiors, embrace old acquaintances, go to parties, enjoy the beach, delight ourselves with out-of-town adventures.
Some memories were just fleeting images in our minds, some were stored to be remembered.

But, have you experienced a moment where you seemed to want to remember each detail in it?
...to try to memorize all that happened, not allowing a speck of event to be overseen?
...to relish over and over that instance until you'd virtually play that role again?
It would find you dazed for such a moment to be happening...that you'd wish it would not end,
However, even if it really would end...you'd know,
you'll always be reliving that moment for the rest of time.

One Tree Hill quote

Charles Bukowski once wrote:

"There will always be something to ruin our lives. It all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken."

We all have problems on our own. Sometimes, we will think that ours are greater and more complicated than others, but then, others may think the same way too. Regardless on how heavy our burdens may be, they are there to challenge us, strengthen us, test our faith. Whatever yoke comes first, the only thing that can prepare us to face it is to believe in ourselves that we can overcome it, for God wouldn't provide us with a challenge in which we cannot handle ourselves. If it seems to be too much, then, our trust in God has been challenged. When we have come to believe in ourselves, then we should also learn to believe in God, for He is always there to help us, not forsake us. By then, when something heavy strikes us at the time when we are very much vulnerable, then we worry not anymore...for we have someone to whom we can lean on when we get caught up in a much stronger storm.

One Tree Hill quote

Kahlil Gibran once wrote:

"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and sails of your seafaring soul . If either be broken, you can but toss and drift or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining...and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction."

it's like your purpose and the enthusiasm of fulfilling that purpose...without the other, you'd be like a man without a cause. what's the use of finding out your reason when you don't have the passion to achieve it? and yet, what can you benefit with your overflowing passion when you don't have the direction to sail with it? worse is the man without both, and blessed is the one who possessed them.


at some points in our lives, we are driven by eagerness to do something, to achieve something, to gain something, to own something...and make that as our goal. by all means, we are utilizing all our efforts, time and money to fulfill what we aimed for, making sacrifices and dealing with the challenges. when we focus our eyes on just the goal, the prize at the end of the journey, of the thing that we very much desire to gain and somehow forgot to enjoy the journey itself, then our reason is suffocating, stifling and insipid.

some of us may think that traversing life should be enjoyable, having much fun and be with the flow...for life just passes once, so, why waste it worrying about anything or making hard decisions? why not experience all the amusing things life could offer us...and just pay the price later? indeed, it would seem very exciting and thrilling to think for such, but then those good things wouldn't last for long...and we may be delivered to our own doom later on as we realize that these tangent things are just actually the wrapper of a much heavier gift, the attractive cover of a meaningful book, the wallpaper of a much complicated system.

as we sail through life, we need to have both our reason and our passion to go through the waves. we need to have our vision to be focused far ahead with our hearts set out to sail beyond and aim for our specific destination in life. only then can we truly appreciate the journey we are in right now.

One Tree Hill quote

"secret...for getting back?
no secret...start shooting one day and deal with the pain.
somewhere along the way, it gets easier."

-Lucas Scott

only then can we truly heal if we are ready enough to face the pain and deal with it. there is actually no secret on how to get over it. no one can teach you when and where you should start moving on, how to do it and the like. the answers are all in you, all depends on you. and yeah, at some point along the way of getting back, you'll find it easier to deal with...and you'll just be surprised.

One Tree Hill quote

"Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past...
Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
-JFK, quoted by Brooke Davis

true, we shouldn't be taking the blame for what happened in our past, not to look grudgingly back, rather to set our eyes up front and take what steps are needed for us to succeed. let the past be the past, we can set to change our future if we will it. for the bad memories of our past, dust it off and try again..for the good memories, treasure them and cherish them...for the future is held hanging on what we decide to do now, and only then can we take the right steps forward if it dawned unto us how to take the responsibility of shaping our own future.