The Best And The Rest 182

Just for today, we’ll skip the usual chronology of the Top Ten and I’ll go straight to today’s topic since given our dire situation, it seems timely to do so.  As I write this, we’re expecting Typhoon Pepeng (Parma) to hit land in a couple of hours.  We haven’t even recovered from Ondoy, and already a new typhoon threatens to batter us anew.  Of course we’re still praying that the typhoon won’t be as devastating as we’re all expecting it to be.  Who knows, we still might be spared the brunt of the storm’s power.  So in the light of the situation, I make the exception and bring to you the topic we used this morning.  We changed it from”Victims Of Ondoy” to “Survivors Of Ondoy” thanks to an entry by Abernathy.

October 2, 2009 → The Top Ten Quotes Of Hope For The Survivors Of Ondoy

1. Abernathy – “Instead of saying ‘I’m a victim of Ondoy’, say ‘I survived Ondoy’.”
2. Wnadering Eneri – Bob Ong: “Hindi ka bayani dahil sa kaya mong gawin. Bayani ka dahil sa ginawa mo.”
3. Mr. Perk – “If what’s ahead scares you and what’s behind hurts you, just look up.”
4. Mameski – Bishop Fulton Sheen: “Look into the mirror and you shall see the person most responsible for your happiness today.”
5. Wandering Eneri – “The rain doesn’t fall on one roof alone.”
6. Simply Jewel – When I asked a friend, whose house was flooded, if she needed anything, she answered: “Yes, a 2nd floor.”
7. Marioh_Caryo – Mother Teresa: “To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
8. Marioh_Caryo/Cutiechie/Hannah_bananahh/Johnlang – Christopher Reeve: “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”
9. Angel17raine – “We shouldn’t count what we lost but what is left.”
10. Wandering Eneri – “Broken mirrors make beautiful mosaics.”
11. Astroboy – “It is a comforting thought that when you help someone up a steep hill, you get closer to the top yourself!”
12. Kidlat Isidro – “When the world brings you to your knees, you might as well pray.”
13. Cats – “We don’t know what the future holds, but we know WHO holds the future.”
14. Lynx – “Life is not waiting for the storm to pass; it is learning how to dance in the rain.”
15. No name – “In tough times, stay motivated by looking at how far you’ve come, rather than how far you still have to go.”
16. Ana Herrera – “I survived, I’m alive, and I will thrive.”
17. Mirage34 – “When it comes to moving on, just find a starting point.”
18. Capt’n – “If you’ve lost a lot, maybe it’s God telling you to make space for something better.”
19. Tito41 – “If all good things come to an end, all bad things will eventually end too.
20. No name – “A broken spirit is worse than a broken body.”
21. Louise – “Leave the misery, bring the lesson.”
22. Cutiechie – Eleonor Roosevelt: “He who loses money, loses much. He who loses a friend, loses more. He who loses faith, loses all.”
23. Hannah_bananahh – Albert Camus: “In the midst of winter, I found within me, an invincible summer.”
24. Anjiedy – “The first step towards getting somewhere, is deciding that you are not going to stay where you are.”
25. Dynajane – “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can.”
26. No name – Mahatma Gandhi: “You can be the change you want to see in this world.”
27. Ninka – Lyndon B. Johnson: “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
28. No name – “Sometimes, the answer is given when we stop questioning.”
29. Cutiechie – “No storm can ever be stronger than the power of the human spirit.”
30. Dru – “We have a surplus of POLITICIANS, but a shortage of PUBLIC SERVANTS.”
31. No name – Jamie Sullivan, mandy moore’s character in “A Walk to Remember”: “Maybe God has a better plan than I have for myself.”
32. Astroboy – “Being defeated is temporary; giving up is permanent.”
33. Gracia/Infrared – “Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.”
34. Dark Chocolate Boi – “Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.”
35. Abernathy – “Someday, we’ll just look back at Ondoy as just another trial we survived.”
36. Randy Jackstone – Rudy Giuliani: “When you confront a problem, you begin to solve it.”
37. Astroboy – “Most of us are praying for mountains to be removed, when what we really need to pray for is the strength to climb them.”
38. No name – “Instead of seeing life as a series of endings, see it as a series of new beginnings.”
39. No name – “Doing your best at this moment puts you in the best position to handle the next.”
40. Polar Bear – “Prayer is the bridge between panic and peace.”
41. Polar Bear – “Trust God to move mountains, but in the meantime, keep climbing.”
42. TwistdSaint – “There’s no education quite like adversity.”
43. TwistdSaint – “God decides what we go through, we decide how we get through it.”
44. Anjiedy – “The windshield is larger than the rearview mirror because the PAST is not as important as the FUTURE.”
45. Sashapurse – Charles L. Allen: “When you say that a situation is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.”
46. Kalsjr – When my mom died, a priest told me: “God doesn’t give you courage; He gives you a chance to display what you already have.”
47. Blitzkrieg – No matter how dark the situation, let hope light your way.”
48. Dei – “The impossible is often the undone.”
49. Markalap – “When the world says: ‘Give up’, hope whispers: ‘Try it one more time’.”
50. Derickcreme – The Dalai Lama: “If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.”
51. Jao423/Uhija – The Dalai Lama: “Kindness is my TRUE religion.”
52. Bobok083184- “It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
53. Jhack_arceno – “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice that urges you on.”
54. Capriciosah – Albert Einstein: “Learn from yesterday, live for today , hope for tomorrow.”
55. Sashapurse – “Those who wish to sing always find a song.”
56. Reinh24 – “The will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you.”
57. Swindoll – “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
58. KimyKimyMore – “Don’t ask GOD, ‘Why me?’ Instead, ask Him, ‘What do you want me to learn?’”
59. KimyKimyMore – “If you have a reason to live, you will never have a reason to quit.”
60. Dynajane – “Never lose faith during times you need it the most.”
61. “Maximo – “Wag matakot sa Pepeng malaki.”