{"author":"Psyche Roxas-Mendoza","author_id":"Psyche+Roxas-Mendoza","total_quotes":40,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Psyche Roxas-Mendoza","tags":["began","beginning","begotten","circle","father","future","great","keepers","son"],"id":19843,"author_id":"Psyche+Roxas-Mendoza"},{"text":"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 minisculefor the universe to keep forever.So just do good to others; be good, allbecause it makes you happy,happy beyond fame, power, andeternity.","author":"Psyche Roxas-Mendoza","tags":["change","fleeting","incidental","inspirational","life","universe"],"id":43313,"author_id":"Psyche+Roxas-Mendoza"},{"text":"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.","author":"Psyche Roxas-Mendoza","tags":["god","pray","wish-inspirational"],"id":55416,"author_id":"Psyche+Roxas-Mendoza"},{"text":"Think about it: If you have saved just enough to have your own house, your own car, a modicum of income to pay for food, clothes, and a few conveniences, and your everyday responsibilities start and end only with yourself… You can afford not to do anything outside of breathing, eating, and sleeping.Time would be an endless, white blanket. Without folds and pleats or sudden rips. Monday would look like Sunday, going sans adrenaline, slow, so slow and so unnoticed. Flowing, flowing, time is flowing in phrases, in sentences, in talk exchanges of people that come as pictures and videos, appearing, disappearing, in the safe, distant walls of Facebook.Dial fast food for a pizza, pasta, a burger or a salad. Cooking is for those with entire families to feed. The sala is well appointed. A day-maid comes to clean. Quietly, quietly she dusts a glass figurine here, the flat TV there. No words, just a ho-hum and then she leaves as silently as she came. Press the shower knob and water comes as rain. A TV remote conjures news and movies and soaps. And always, always, there’s the internet for uncomplaining company.Outside, little boys and girls trudge along barefoot. Their tinny, whiny voices climb up your windowsill asking for food. You see them. They don’t see you. The same way the vote-hungry politicians, the power-mad rich, the hey-did-you-know people from newsrooms, and the perpetually angry activists don’t see you. Safely ensconced in your tower of concrete, you retreat. Uncaring and old./HOW EASY IT IS NOT TO CARE.","author":"Psyche Roxas-Mendoza","tags":["activists","old-inspirational","politicians","poor","retreat","rich","time-inspirational","uncaring"],"id":89109,"author_id":"Psyche+Roxas-Mendoza"},{"text":"A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.","author":"Psyche Roxas-Mendoza","tags":["elections","lie","profit","profitable","truth"],"id":102426,"author_id":"Psyche+Roxas-Mendoza"},{"text":"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.","author":"Psyche Roxas-Mendoza","tags":["back","bad","choice","crossroads","faith","feet","folk","god","hurt","life","long","road","rumble","safety-net","simple","travel","tumble","winding","world"],"id":103888,"author_id":"Psyche+Roxas-Mendoza"},{"text":"Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.","author":"Psyche Roxas-Mendoza","tags":["consciousness","faith-inspirational","marriage-inspirational"],"id":108186,"author_id":"Psyche+Roxas-Mendoza"},{"text":"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.","author":"Psyche Roxas-Mendoza","tags":["grief","memory","places","sadness"],"id":109405,"author_id":"Psyche+Roxas-Mendoza"},{"text":"The time we were together, we were the best we can be for each other.","author":"Psyche Roxas-Mendoza","tags":["best","each","other","time","together"],"id":111412,"author_id":"Psyche+Roxas-Mendoza"},{"text":"It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.","author":"Psyche Roxas-Mendoza","tags":["beautiful","beyond","kernel","standards","story","truth","writing"],"id":120656,"author_id":"Psyche+Roxas-Mendoza"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}