Quotes by "Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol"

Don’t change the world—it will change by itself; nor any man—he changes by himself. By the same token, have others changed you? For what I know, you change by yourself too.

Happiness is having a good night rest. Happiness is eating food you liked best. Happiness is having good company. Happiness is hearing something funny. Happiness is having tea or coffee. Happiness is watching a good movie. Oh, the spring of happiness so boundless you’d wonder why there still the sad faces!

Happiness is discovering yourself. Happiness is developing yourself. Happiness is going after your goal. Happiness is having peace in your soul. Happiness is doing what you like best. Happiness is passing every day’s test. Happiness is seeing loved ones secure. Happiness is knowing all mess has cure.

You’re trapped in a mine, no possible way; then you heard rescuers are on the way. Test reveals that your cancer is stage three; then you learned of a cure to set you free. When problems come that seem never-ending, “HOPE” stands as the best reason for living. We all live in hopes of a better life: “Take out hope and life ceases to be life.

Man’s free will is so inviolable, he has the full freedom to choose just all, like the life to lead, places to ramble, even the God he wants to rule his soul. God could have so chosen to program man— “To only think and move at His command.” Yet God did not—He’s a Lord with feelings: “For man sans free will is like bird sans wings.

Why when we feel good, the world seems so bright; but when we feel bad, nothing round seems right. It’s as if for the world to deem alright, the way is to adjust ourselves aright.

A lie is yet a lie, though bought worldwide; soon it shall fade with coming of new tide. Truth remains truth, though stepped on like a dime; soon it shall reign with the passing of time. A lie lasts as long as there's suppression, for lies were but of man's fabrication. Truth lasts as long as there's constellation, for truths were but of Nature's formation.

Have you been caring to all your children? Will they take you than be at old folks' den? Will they feel honored pushing your wheelchair? Will hearts break when your breath runs out of spare?

Why long for heaven up there we don't see, When there's heaven down here that's so lovely. Why mind the hell up there we can't fathom, When there's hell down here that's worse than Sodom.

Man is not victim of environment that due to world's evil, life is torment. It's man who victimized environment that due to man's evil, world is lament.

If you don't like my face, you go to God; before my own mirror, nothing seems odd. If you don't like my guts, you come to me, so I can fix myself as well as thank thee.

Nobody must question your right to smoke, but I've right, too, not to inhale your smoke. First of all, health abuse is not a right; use of right ought to lead to life, not blight. You have right to party with unchecked noise, but I've right, too, not be pained by your noise. In short, a right can't be claimed as a right, if it violates other people's right.

Dictatorship is the best form of rule: decisions are quick, good results are full. If God were to come down to lead the word, wouldn't He act like an absolute Lord? Yet, most would rather choose democracy, they just could not stomach autocracy. It's because if godless be the ruler, dictatorship spells hell of disaster.

Hope lies not in the light at tunnel's end; it's in the fact our life doesn't yet end. Till we can talk, walk, see, and comprehend, hope goes on for all things we want happen.

There's no succession without successor. There's no oppression without oppressor. There's no narration without narrator. There's no creation without Creator.

Don't live each day as if it were your last, for you might break your back and breathe your last. Rather, live as if a hundred days left; oh, not so pressured, of tension bereft. We do work to live, not do live to work; always rushing is not fun but a joke. Live each day not so stressed nor so relaxed; it's in balanced way where joy's at the max.

The brain is just an action-processor; the attitude is the brain’s dictator. If the attitude dictates “I am strong,” the brain works to show attitude’s not wrong.

Thinking it’ll be tough, one forwent the test; while other took it but studied hardest. Thinking it might rain, one canceled his trip; while other pushed through, with raincoat equipped. Thoughts of hindrance make you not negative, it’s in the kind of reaction you’ll give. If the negative’s way is just to quit, the positive’s style is find ways round it.

Though crime rate down, economy growing, till millions are found deprived and starving, the nation’s leaders are but misaligned— no ifs and buts, but they all must resign! How much more if there is no improvement, the poor pushed to even greater torment. Time to change how leaders are measured out— “Either they free all, or they all ship out!

You need strength of built to fight a lion. You need strength of will to fight obstruction. You need strength of heart to fight frustration. You need strength of soul to fight temptation.