The One Minute Manager

By: Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D

Spencer Johnson,M.D.

"Effective managers, manage themselves and the people they work with so that both the organization and the people profit from their presence."

"People who feel good about themselves produce good results."

"Productivity is more than just the quantity of work done. It is also the quality."

"Quality is simply giving people the product or service they really want and need."

"Productivity is both quantity and quality."

" A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening."

"Help People reach their full potential. Catch them doing something right."

"The more consistently successful your people are, the higher you rise in the organization."

"The best minute i spend is the one i invest in people."

"If people get results, then it certainly makes good sense to invest in people."

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions"

"Everyone is a potential winner. Some people are disguised as losers, Don't let their appearances fool you."

"First you can hire winners. They are hard to find and they cost money. Or second if you can't find a winner, you can hire someone with the potential to be a winner. Then you systematically train that person to become a winner. If you are not willing to do either of the first two..., then  there is only the third choice left - prayer."

"Take a minute. Look at your goals. Look at your performance. See if your behavior matches your goals."

"People are more complicated. They are aware, they think for themselves and they certainly don't want to be manipulated by another person. Remember that and respect that. It is a key to good management."

"So the key to training someone to do a new task is, in the beginning, to catch them doing something approximately right until they can eventually learn to do it exactly right."

"With a winner you don't have to catch them doing things right very often, because good performers catch themselves doing things right and are able to be self reinforcing."

"Before giving a reprimand you have to see the behavior yourself - you can't depend on what someone else saw. You never give a reprimand based on hearsay."

"Telling people what they did wrong; telling people how you feel about it; and reminding people that they are valuable and worthwhile - lead to significant improvement's in people's behavior."

"People need to be in contact with people who care about them - to be accepted as valuable just because they are people."

"It is very important when you are managing people to remember that behavior and worth are not the same things. What is really worthwhile is the person managing their own behavior. This is as true of each of us managers as it is each of the people we are managing."

"We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior."

"Touch is very honest. People know immediately when you touch them whether you care about them, or whether you are just trying to find a new way to manipulate them."

"When you touch, don't take. Touch the people you manage only when you are giving them something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever."

"There are things that work, and things that don't work. Being honest with people eventually works. On the other hand, being dishonest eventually leads to failing with people."

"You have to care enough to be tough."

"Goal begin behaviors. Consequences maintain behaviors."

"Nobody ever really works for anybody else. I just help people work better and in the process they benefit our organization."

Let it Hurt

   By: Rascal Flatts

7:42 in the morning
8 seconds before it all sinks in
Put your best face on for the world
Fake another smile and just pretend
But you're just puttin' off the pain
Nothing's ever really gonna change

So let it hurt, let it bleed
Let it take you right down to your knees
Let it burn to the worst degree
May not be what you want, but it's what you need
Sometimes the only way around it
Is to let love do it's work
And let it hurt
Yeah, let it hurt

3:28 in the morning
Countin' up the spaces between the rain
You're gettin' used to the rocks at the bottom
Your heart goes numb, but the lonely stays the same
And that's the price you're bound to pay
And there's really nothing anyone can say
Oh, there's only just one way


So let it hurt, let it bleed
Let it take you right down to your knees
Let it burn to the worst degree
May not be what you want, but it's what you need
Sometimes the only way around it
Is to let love do it's work
So go on
Yeah, let it hurt

You might just find you're better for it
When you let go and you learn
To let it hurt, let it bleed
Let it take you right down to your knees
Oh...
Sometimes the only way around it
Is to let love do it's work
So go on
And let it hurt
Oh, let it hurt

7:42 in the morning
8 seconds before it all sinks in 

 

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The Longest Moment of Clarity

by: Adam Robinson


I already apologized and I know you forgive me, but there's something I failed to make clear. I don't think the sort of behavior I exhibited on the phone last night is "okay." I have always been fully aware of the status of our relations. I went into our arrangement with total knowledge and have continued to engage in it with that same knowledge.

In denial of this, I accused you of being in denial. I said you disappointed me because I was disappointed in myself. The love I was talking about on the phone is not love. It was an eruption of internal desperation. It had nothing to do with you. In my resolve to restructure my identity, a primary goal was to quell exactly that sort of behavior, to gain some self-control and emotional discernment. This only shows me that I have much father to go in my progress toward change. I didn't think. I lied to myself and thereby to you. If I could take it back everything I said last night, I would and instead, I would say this: 

I love you as a friend, first and only, and hope only for your happiness. My behavior was surely not consistent with this priority.

I would also have ended our "friends with benefits" in calm, rational manner (as I tried to do last week. My back-peddling was only a further show of weakness and lack of self-control.) It's nothing personal. I enjoyed what we had for what it was, and have always known what it was, despite how I sounded last night. One of my new goals in self-restructuring includes the fact that I will never be anyone's friend with benefits again. 

I know you never felt romantically toward me and I know why. You want someone with enough clarity of mind not to engage in unnecessarily hurtful and irrational behavior. Totally understandable. My own feelings of romance were predicated on a set of feelings I imagined you to have, though I knew, consciously, you never possessed them. I agree with you that we are too different, and that there has never, from day one, been any sort of future for you and I. I have always known this, and to tell you otherwise was to let my selfish desire do the talking. It has nothing to do with anything you did, and were you not around, I would have been unleashing it on someone else or myself. 

I've also come to agree with you, that there is no such thing as unrequited love. It's one-sided. So it's not love.


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The Story of a Doll

(New beginnings)

There was a doll. She was on one of the racks displayed at the toy section. She is very beautiful and pretty just like all the other dolls lined up beside her. But there is something very different to this doll; other than a prominent mark on her face, which might be the result of a scratch, her eyes twinkle like the stars and the smile on her lips is radiant, just like that of a woman in love.

Every day, this doll would wait and wait and wait endlessly, with a hope that one day someone would buy her so that there would be a person who would take care of her, play with her, make her happy and important. But most of all, she needed someone to love her.

 She waited day after day after day. Suddenly it came - someone took her from the display, bought her and then brought her home. Imagine the delight of the doll. Her wish had just been granted. She was no longer on the display shelf but in the house of her owner.

It was the start of a happy and beautiful life of the doll. She and her owner were inseparable for wherever one goes the other goes as well. She plays with the other toys and sometimes gets dirty with them. But at the end of each play time, her owner would always return her to that special spot at the cabinet reserved only for her. She knew then she was loved.

One fine day, while they were playing outside, her owner's friend came by with another doll. It was a very beautiful doll, fairer than any she had ever seen. However, she did not feel any jealousy towards it because she knows that she was deeply loved by her owner and that in itself was enough for her.

When the friend left and they in turn, went inside the house, she heard her owner say:  "Mom, I want a new doll! Exactly like that of my friend. That very same doll!"  The mom answered: "But you already have one. You play with her everyday and you said you love your doll more than all the other dolls in the world. Why do you want to have another one now?"

As her owner answered, the doll went flying into the air, landing on a heap of dust on the floor, "I don't like my doll anymore. She is not pretty. She is not beautiful. She smells awful. I want a new one!" The mother replied, "But I told you many times that I would wash her for you. Yet you said no because you love her just as she is!" The owner retorted, "I don't care! I want another doll."

From that day on, everything changed for the doll. Oh they would still continue playing with her owner outside the house, but when another beautiful doll passes by, the owner would squeeze the doll until there were obvious marks on it’s body.

 After playing, she was no longer returned to her special spot on the cabinet but was left on the floor beside the discarded clothes, gathering dust and dirt. Yet the doll continued loving her owner because she knew of no other way than that. She continued to hope that her owner would love her and take care of her again. She continued to hope that all the good things in the past would happen again. She kept hoping and hoping and hoping.

Until one day, her owner picked her up, looked at her with disgust, and then threw her at the trash bin. That was the last she saw of her owner.

The doll cried. She cried and cried and cried. She found it very hard to accept that the owner who had loved her so much was the one who actually threw her in the trash.

Inside the bin, the doll felt like she was the ugliest, dirtiest, and lowest doll ever created and that nobody else would accept and love her. But despite the pain, the doll never gave up. She continued to hope that someday, her owner would miss her, bring her back from the bin and play with her again.

But the garbage truck finally arrived and she knew that her owner isn’t going to come back for her. As she went tumbling down with the rest of the garbage, she saw at the corner of her eyes, the new doll her owner was playing. She knew then that her owner would no longer miss her, need her nor love her.

As she lay on top of the mountain of trash, she felt her world crumbling down. She knew that she will remain in that situation until she gets covered by another heap of garbage. She knew there was no longer that beautiful cabinet she would return to for rest.

While she was busy wallowing in pity and pain, to her surprise, someone picked her up and looked at her with eyes of delight – as if the person had just found a treasure.

The doll was brought to a very small house and was washed and dressed anew. At first, the doll did not enjoy or even appreciate it because she was still hurting very bad. She dreaded that one day this new owner would abandon her again and throw her in the garbage.

But the day went smoothly for the doll. Her new owner and friends played with her and kept praising her for her beauty. The new owner was very proud and happy to have such a doll and shows this by always hugging her tightly. She felt again that feeling which she thought she would never again feel - Love. She knew in her heart that her new owner loves her much more than the first one ever did. But after her experience of being hurt and abandoned, she couldn’t avoid having doubts and fears and so she wanted to find out first.

She waited for night time when they would all rest. She believed in herself that if this new owner loves her, then she would again have that special place at the cabinet reserved only for her. But there was no cabinet; instead, she lay on the bed, hugged beside her owner. And for the first time, before her owner went to sleep, she kissed her and whispered: “I love you and I am very glad someone threw you away so you could be mine.”

The doll slept blissfully with this thought in mind: that an old beaten bed beside the person who loves you is a far better place to rest than on a space of a beautiful cabinet alone. She was glad that someone found her and loved her despite her worn out condition. And she promised herself that she would love this new owner more deeply and strongly than she had loved the first.

I Believe in Love

by : Dixie Chicks

I made a promise to myself
Locked it away deep down inside
Told my heart we'd wait it out
Swore we'd never compromise
Oh I'd rather be alone
Like I am tonight
Than settle for the kind of love
That fades before the morning light

Silence stared me in the face
And I finally heard its voice
It seemed to softly say
That in love you have a choice
Today i got the answer
And there's a world of truth behind it
Love is out there waiting somewhere
You just have to go and find it

I believe in love, I believe in love
A love that's real, love that's strong
Love that lives on and on
Yes I believe in love
Yes I believe in love 

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Bio Data of My God

         (My Great God Experience)

Lover. Healer. Is the name I generally use for my God. I know I can call him Father, Teacher, Friend, etc., but Lover and Healer are the ones that struck me most. They are names of people I never had in my life.

I never had a lover who could make me cry and laugh at the same time. Someone who whispers 'I love you' in times when I needed to hear it most. Someone who tells me 'I also get jealous you know!' Someone who stays and loves me even if I have been pushing Him away. Someone who takes me back even if I have hurt him and had been unfaithful to Him numerous times. Someone whom you know and confident that would be there for you even if others have already turned their backs from you. A Great Loving God.

I have met a lot of Doctors but blessed as I am I have never been admitted to a hospital. I have never been needing physical help from a healer. But pain is far beyond the physical pain. Yes, I may have never been admitted to a hospital but the pain, scars and injuries I have gone and is going through in my life needs more than a plaster of band-aid. I don't even know if a surgery would heal it. They fail to see how sick I am and how much I am in need of a healer, so I ask God to not only be my lover but to also be my Healer.

Those two describes best my God. The ones I need most in my life. He is male and aging around 40ish and I deeply got to know Him during my high school days when I entered in a Christian community, though it was my parents who first introduced Him to me as Saviour.  He lives in my house,  so I can easily talk to him when I want to. But there are things I can't talk to Him at home, like sins. So I schedule a visit with Him at His office called the church  where I often attend mass. When I can't seem to hear him at home (usually those times are times when I get so full of sins and I stopped listening to his lectures and He stops talking, I guess), I also go there. I think God sees me as very unfaithful to him and when I go to His office, in times when I feel the gravity of all the sins I have committed, he takes me back again,  without me even needing to beg him. Very forgiving God.

We usually talk about matters in my Family. Like when our family problem is going to end, what he is trying to teach me with this problem, etc. I consider Him to be the Greatest Architect, my Idol, I get to have the best advices from Him for my profession,  He even promised me that He would be making wonders in my life beyond I could imagine but up to now, I have kept ignoring His advice and He still patiently waits for the time that He could make those wonders. And that is what frightens me with Him. And as he is my lover, love and love life is usually our favorite topic of discussion at home or at his office. He usually finds me crying many times when we get to this topic and because of that, He found my weakest spot that all I needed was someone to love me and never let me go. He just says He will surprise me one of these days. That, considering He has surprised me billion times already.

Presently, I usually do the talking so how I wish He could be more talkative to me like the way He used to be when He gave me prophetic tongues. The last time He told me was 'Let go and let Me' that was way back in June. When I talk to Him again, it is the same thing! He tells me over and over and over again, even up to now! I am really hard headed. So it took a while for me but now I get it, to Let Go and Let God.

Right now, as I am without a Healer and a Lover, I am just glad and always been reminded that I have a Great God to fill what I feel is lacking in me.

Great God! I like!

Wonderfully Made

by: Paulo K. Tirol

I've seen every tear that you've cried.
The fears and failures you struggle to hide.
The worthiness doubted beneath all that pride.
The visions and dreams left behind.

I know your remorse and regret.
The secrets and stories you ache to forget.
So many people you'd die to be yet

I choose you, I choose you
Do you know why I choose you?
I choose you.


Refrain:

If only you could see yourself the way that I do,

And know yourself the way I know you

Then you'd love yourself

As somebody who is wonderfully made.

Wonderfully made are you.

How faultless you are in my eyes.
So gentle and guiltless, so perfect and prized.
There's so much to love that you don't realize,
My child, My beloved, My pride.

A future with so much in store,
A gift those around you are so grateful for.
Nothing can alter that forevermore.

I'd choose you, I'd choose you.
Do you know why I'd choose you?
I'd choose you.

(Refrain)

Forever and ever I'd choose you.
Just as you are, I'd choose you.
Again and again, I would choose you.

(Refrain)

Wonderfully made,
Wonderfully made,
Wonderfully made are you.

You haven't seen the last of me

by Cher

Feeling broken
Barely holding on
But there's just something so strong
Somewhere inside me
And I am down but I'll get up again
Don't count me out just yet

I've been brought down to my knees
And I've been pushed way past the point of breaking
But I can take it
I'll be back
Back on my feet
This is far from over
You haven't seen the last of me
You haven't seen the last of me

They can say that
I won't stay around
But I'm gonna stand my ground
You're not gonna stop me
You don't know me
You don't know who I am
Don't count me out so fast

I've been brought down to my knees
And I've been pushed way past the point of breaking
But I can take it
I'll be back
Back on my feet
This is far from over
You haven't seen the last of me

There will be no fade out
This is not the end
I'm down now
But I'll be standing tall again
Times are hard but
I was built tough
I'm gonna show you all what I'm made of

I've been brought down to my knees
And I've been pushed right past the point of breaking
But I can take it
I'll be back
Back on my feet
This is far from over
I am far from over
You haven't seen the last of me

No no
I'm not going nowhere
I'm staying right here
Oh no
You won't see me fade out
I'm not taking my bow
Can't stop me
It's not the end
You haven't seen the last of me
Oh no
You haven't seen the last of me
You haven't seen the last of me

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Today my Life Begins

Bruno Mars

I've been working hard so long

seems like pain has been my only friend

my fragile heart's been done so wrong

I wondered if I'd ever heal again

Ohh just like all the seasons never stay the same

All around me I can feel a change (Ohh)

I will break these chains that bind me, happiness will find me

leave the past behind me, today my life begins,

a whole new world is waiting It's mine for the taking,

I know I can make it, today my life begins

Yesterday has come and gone

and I've learned how to leave it where it is

and I see that I was wrong

for ever doubting I could win

Ohh just like all the seasons never stay the same

All around me I can feel a change (ohh)

I will break these chains that bind me, happiness will find me,

leave the past behind me, today my life begins

a whole new world is waiting it's mine for the taking

I know I can make it, today my life begins

life's too short to have regrets

so iIm learning now to leave it in the past and try to forget

only have one life to live

so you better make the best of it

I will break these chains that bind me, happiness will find me

leave the past behind me, today my life begins,

a whole new world is waiting it's mine for the taking

I know I can make it, today my life begins

I will break these chains that bind me, happiness will find me,

leave the past behind me, today my life begins,

a whole new world is waiting it's mine for the taking

I know I can make it, today my life begins,

today my life begins...

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The Day I Fall in Love

by: James Ingram 
     Dolly Parton 


Just an ordinary day
Started out the same old way
Then I looked into your eyes and knew
Today would be a first for me
The day I fall in love

On the day I fall in love
Sky will be a perfect blue
And I'll give my heart forever more
To someone who is just like you
The day I fall in love

People all say love is wonderful
That the bells will ring
The birds will sing
The skies will open
I wonder where's that great big symphony
Roll over Beethoven
Won't you play with me

And I'll never promise to be true to anyone
Unless it's you
Unless it's you
The day I fall in love

Just an ordinary day
Started out the same old way
Then I looked into your eyes and knew
Today will be a first for me
A first for me
The day I fall in love
I know you'll be there
Ooh....I know...
The day I fall in love


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The Quest

For four years, I have been in a quest. A quest of finding something, that would give meaning and purpose to my life. A justification to my existence. A reason for living. So I set on the different experiences  greatly hoping  that I would find that very thing that is missing.

Profession. I set out and left my little city in the hopes of pursuing my profession in another place, would be the answer. Never dreaming of coming back and settling in a stagnant place such as what I have. I battled in that big city in trying to live a decent respected life. Sought for employment and once I find a good company to submit my papers, I end up asking myself, is this what I want for the rest of my life? Will this employment make me happy? No. So I ended that search by coming back to my hometown with a song in my heart "I'm coming home, to a place where I belong".  And so I went home, excited for I know that my happiness is just there waiting to be recognized by me.

Coming back home was a shattering and painful experience. I did not know that there would no longer be a home I could go back to. My already lost self just got lost deeper. I tried battling it. Tried to live an ordinary life. Found an employment, actively joined in my Christian community, went out and partied with friends, read books, found crushes, but then again at the end of the day, same questions rush through my mind. So, I gave up the pretence and followed what my heart is telling me to do.

Do nothing. For ten months, I made my world stop. I eat, sleep and watch tv. I lavished in what Italians call The sweetness of doing nothing. The only thing left that I do, is the service I give to my community. Another experience I embarked believing that in it I would be able to end my search because I know that in this, I am good, excellent. Through this experience, I met a lot of friends, listened to their problems, listened to mine. Found new adventures, found new learning.  Yet, none of those, took me closer to my search. None of them knew what it is I have been missing . They know me for sure, they know what other people know about me, and they know me for what I was willing to show them and what I was willing to share to them. None recognized the internal battle I was going through for the struggles had been successfully masked by what people easily recognize as a reason for happiness, the successes, the upbringing, the character, the friends, the status, the family. All of these had been effective facades.

Then came Someone. An experience of love which I embarked believing that maybe a relationship is what's missing. I loved this experience. The many first times, the rush of emotion, the smile it brings to my lips, the hugs and kisses that warms my heart. A new experience of being able to think and care for someone other than yourself.  An experience with the hopes that could lead me to the end of my search. I failed to realized at the beginning, that it is love that had brought me to this search. Failing to do that, I  failed to acknowledge that it is love that has brought me to loosing myself, a common characteristic of a person in love. So , instead of getting closer to the answer, the more I got lost. For one characteristic of love is loosing your balance. I got lost and this time I brought someone with me. We both got lost.

Everybody needs affection. It makes people do funny things. Everyone gets like that at beginning of a  relationship. Want too much happiness, too much pleasure. Until you make yourself sick. And we were truly like that in our relationship. At the time when we were sick, we were living in misery but we are so afraid to let go because of the emotions we felt and the closeness to finding and ending our quest. It was love that led me to this quest, only to find out that at the end, it would also love that would help me identify the road I should take on to find the answers to my quest.

As I watched Eat.Pray.Love of Julia Roberts, I finally found that road. It is not Profession, Family, Friends, Service nor Love. But all in one package. A Balanced Life. That is what I have been searching for. I never thought that only in a movie will I be able to put into words that of which took me years to identify.

Now I would truly be able to have one direction in this quest to find that balanced life of mine. And like Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) I would try to live in the Physics of the Quest that:

If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting

Which can be anything, from your house to old bitter resentments

And set out on a truth seeking journey either externally or internally

And if your are truly willing to regard everything

That happens to you on that journey as a clue

And if you accept everyone you meet along the way  as a teacher

And if you are prepared most of all

To face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself

Then the truth will not be withheld from you.

For now, I would continue on with my internal journey to finding the truth, the balance life, I so dream about. Hopeful that along this quest I will find many teachers to help me face the realities about life, and about myself.

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Longings of the Heart

How i long to see your name on my wall, liking, commenting

the way you do it with your friends

but that is next to impossible.

How i long to see your messages on my phone

the way you do with your text mates,

but that is wanting for a miracle.

How i long for you to spend time with me

the way you do with your drinking buddies

but that is like asking for the stars

how i long to put you out of my heart

the way you put me out of yours

but that is same as asking forever to end.

First Aid: Music

Maybe I truly am an emotional person. When I feel down, (oh com'on there are really those times that we feel really emotional) there is no other best remedy than listening to good ole' Music. So, I just view my list of heartbreak songs. Funny but it lightens the mood. It allows me to refresh from the ache. Oh well that is what first aid treatment should do. I am trying to fill in 100 achy breaky songs starting with:

1. Without You  by Karylle  click    
2. It's Over Now by Kayla  click
3. When The Last Tear Drops Fall by Blaque click
4. Tonight I wanna cry by Keith Urban click
5. You can't break a broken heart by Kate Voegle click
6. Take My Heart Back by Jennifer Love Hewitt click
7. Have You Ever by Brandy click
8. From the Bottom of my broken heart by Britney Spears click
9. Someone's Always Saying Goodbye by Toni Gonzaga click
10. I Don't Want You to Go by Kyla click
11. Only a Woman's Heart by Isabelle Boulay click
12. I Miss You by Beverly Craven click
13. I've Cried Enough by Lara Fabian click
14. I Will Be Right Here Waiting For You by Richard Marx click
15. Eyes on Me by Faye Wong click
16. My Skin by Natalie Merchant click
17. I Miss You by Simple Plan click
18. I Don't Wanna Miss A thing by Aerosmith click
19. Everything I do (I do it for you) by Bryan Adams click
20. My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion click
21. Everytime we Touch by Cascada click
22. Art of Letting Go by Mikaela click
23. How do You heal a broken heart by Chris Walker click
24. Even Now by Nina click
25. Di Lang Ikaw by Juris Fernandez click
26. One Last Cry by Brian Mcknight click
27. Don't Say Goodbye by Rachelle Ann Go click
28. Please Don't Ask Me by John Farnham click
29. Calling Your Name Again by Richard Carpenter click
30. The Past by Ray Parker Jr. click
31. Half Crazy by Freestyle click
32. He's Out of my Life by Nina click
33. Can't Find the Words to Say Goodbye by David Gates click
34. Hard Habit to Break by Chicago click
35. Hiding Inside Myself by Kenny Rankin click
36. Too Much Love Will Kill You by Queen click
37. Just Once by James Ingram click
38. If ever you're in my arms again by Peabo Bryson click
39. Love Will Lead You Back by Mariah Carey click
40. I Miss you Like Crazy by Natalie Cole click
41. Why Can't It Be by 3rd Avenue click
42. Parting Time by Rockstar click
43. When I'm Gone by Albert Hammond click
44. It's Over Now by Joey Albert click
45. I'm Sorry by Jaime Rivera click
46. Million Miles Away by Nikki Gil click
47. I'm Missing You by Bea Alonzo click
48. Don't Say Goodbye by Rachelle Ann Go click
49. I Love You Goodbye by Celine Dion click
50. What Hurts the Most by Rascal Flatts click
51. What if by Kate Winslet click
52. I Never Told You by Colbie Caillat click
53. I'm Movin On by Rascall Flats click
54. Here Comes Goodbye by Rascal Flats click
55. To Love Again by Dingdong Avanzado click
56. I wouldn't be here if i didn't love you by Belinda Carlisle click
57. Di Na Ako Aasa Pa by Introvoys click
58. Kung ako na lang sana by Sharon Cuneta click
59. Kailangan Kita by Gary Valenciano click
60. Ipagpatawad Mo by Janno Gibbs click
61. Bakit Nga Ba Mahal Kita by Roselle Nava click
62. Paminsan Minsan by Richard Reynoso click
63. Umaasa Lang Sa 'yo by Six Part Invention click
64. Till My Heartaches End by Carol Banawa click
65. Nights Are Forever Without you by England Dan click
66. Listen to your heart by D.H.T. click

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First Aid: Quotes

First aid is done to heal or at least remedy instant pain. These are things or ways we use to alleviate the minor pains, or emergency responses before we under go surgery. We commonly see them as medicine kits so we fail to recognize them in our life's daily battles, where emotional scars, wounds and pains could never undergo surgery, hence, the only medicine we are left with is our emotional first aid kit, which we fondly call coping mechanisms.

Funny how much i observe that on the lowest points of my life, Quotes help me cope. This is one content of  my first aid kit. For it expresses what my heart fails to say. And here are some of those:

“And she will fool everyone with her fake smile and pretend laugh.”

“Dear heart, today I met a boy — prepare to shatter.”

“Don’t tell me you love me if you don’t really mean it, 

because I might do something crazy,like believe it.”

“She completely fell for him, but he didn’t even stumble.”

“I wish that I was as invisible as you make me feel.”

“It’s funny how someone can break your heart, 

but you still love them with all the little pieces."

“Sometimes we have to let go, 

just to be sure that there is something out there worth holding on to.”

“Just like Barbie, always smiling, even if she doesn’t want to.”

“Sometimes, when I say ‘Oh, I’m fine.’ 

— I want you to look into my eyes and say ‘Tell the truth.’”

“I guess what scares me is knowing that at any moment 

you could rip my heart out and step on it…

and I would just pick it up and hand it right back to you.”

“No matter what I do, I always forget to forget you.”

“I never stopped loving you, I just stopped showing it.”

“When you weren’t mine, I couldn’t get you. 

When I finally got you, I couldn’t keep you. 

When I couldn’t keep you, I got over you. 

When I got over you, you wanted me.”

“If it’s a broken part, replace it. 

If it’s a broken arm then brace it. 

If it’s a broken heart, then face it.”

“Sometimes, two people have to fall apart 

to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

“There isn’t a moment of my day 

that isn’t spent wondering where you are, 

what you’re doing, how you’re feeling. 

Even in the quiet of the night, 

when everything is still

 and I am nearly asleep, 

there’s a part of me that is still wondering.”

“If they don’t chase you when you walk away, keep walking.”

“It’s hard to decide when you’re too tired to hold on. 

Yet, you’re too in love to let go.”

“If a girl understands your bulls**t, sticks through your mistakes, 

and smiles even when you’ve done nothing for her 

— it’s obvious she’s a keeper. 

But it’s also obvious you don’t deserve her.”

“Your first mistake was leaving me. 

Your second mistake was giving me the chance 

to realize I could live without you.”

 “I miss you when something good happens, because your the one I want to share it with. I miss you when something is troubling me, because your the one that understands me so well. I miss you when I laugh and cry, because I know that you are the one that makes my laughter grow and my tears disappear. I miss you all the time, but I miss you the most when I lay awake at night, and think of all the wonderful times that we spent with each other for those were some of the best and most memorable times of my life.”

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I Wanna Grow Old With You

by Westlife

Another day

Without your smile
Another day just passes by
But now I know
How much it means
For you to stay
Right here with me

The time we spent apart will make our love grow stronger
But it hurt so bad I can't take it any longer

I wanna grow old with you
I wanna die lying in your arms
I wanna grow old with you
I wanna be looking in your eyes
I wanna be there for you
Sharing in everything you do
I wanna grow old with you

A thousand miles between us now (sigh)
It causes me to wonder how
Our love tonight remains so strong
It makes our risk right all along
The time we spent apart will make our love grow stronger
But it hurt so bad I can't take it any longer

I wanna grow old with you
I wanna die lying in your arms
I wanna grow old with you
I wanna be looking in your eyes
I wanna be there for you
Sharing in everything you do
I wanna grow old with you

Things can come and go I know but
Baby I believe
Something's burning strong between us
Makes it clear to me

I wanna grow old with you
I wanna die lying in your arms
I wanna grow old with you
I wanna be looking in your eyes
I wanna be there for you
Sharing in everything you do
I wanna grow old with you