Jocelyn O. Bacala

In the digital age of relentless self-promotion, my only true identity rests in this: I am radically loved by God.

We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect. –Haruki Murakami

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth— and truth rewarded me. –Simone de Beauvoir

What a privilege to be tired from the work you once begged the universe for. What a privilege to feel overwhelmed by growth you use to dream about. What a privilege to be challenged by a life you created on purpose. -Miles Adcox

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. –Henry Dummond

Your pursuits are in vain if you are not first pursuing God. — Ranal Currie

Public service is not a privilege—it is a responsibility. Live simply. Serve honestly. Lead by example. –Judge Carmela Rosario Pasquin

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. —Carl G. Jung

One does not join government to make money; one joins government to serve. –Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo

Every sunrise carries a reminder: Life begins again. Each day arrives painted with a poetry of colors, filled with the opportunity of new experiences, and offering us the gift of a fresh start. -Steve Maraboli

Each sunrise brings with it a whisper of fresh hope, silently promising that today holds new chances to breathe easier. –Priyanshi Ranawat

People’s willingness to find God in their own struggle with life—and let it change them—is their deepest and truest obedience to God’s eternal will. —Richard Rohr

Only those who have tried to breathe under water know how important breathing really is, and will never take it for granted again. —Richard Rohr

If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering. —Katerina Stoykova Klemer

There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow. —Aaron Lauritsen

Far and away, the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. — Theodore Roosevelt

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made. —Walter Brueggemann

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope. —Walter Brueggemann

Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps. We catch the ways and tone of those we live and talk with, and unhappily get harm far more easily than good. Disease is infectious, but health is not. -J.C. Ryle

For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. —Carl Sagan