Holidays and Long Weekends Plan

Have you planned your summer vacation and holidays already?

If not, then mark your calendars now! Check the list of Philippine Holidays for 2016 so you'll know when to schedule your work leave days.

Regular Holidays:

January 1, 2016, Friday – New Year’s Day
March 24, 2016 – Maundy Thursday
March 25, 2016 – Good Friday
April 9, 2016, Saturday – Araw ng Kagitingan
May 1, 2016, Sunday – Labor Day
June 12, 2016, Sunday – Independence Day
August 29, 2016, Monday – National Heroes Day
November 30, 2016, Wednesday – Bonifacio Day
December 25, 2016, Sunday – Christmas Day
December 30, 2016, Friday – Rizal Day

Special Holidays:

February 8, 2016, Monday – Chinese New Year
February 25, 2016 – EDSA People Power Revolution (by virtue of Proclamation No. 1071, s. 2015)
March 26, 2016 – Black Saturday
August 21, 2016, Sunday – Ninoy Aquino Day
November 1, 2016, Tuesday – All Saints Day

Additional Non-Working Days:

January 2, 2016, Saturday
October 31, 2016, Monday
December 24, 2016, Saturday
December 31, 2016, Saturday

(Source: Proclamation No. 1105 regular holidays and special non-working days for 2016)

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My blog had been on a holiday so I just decided to post this holiday list. :)
How I wish I could have and take a holiday too!
... and this is why I am letting my blog go on a holiday.

Maya Angelou's Powerful Quotes to live by

Maya Angelou - acclaimed American poet, award-wining author, civil rights activist and phenomenal woman - gifted the world with her voice, words, heart and strength. Her poignant last social media tweet "Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God," says it all.

Like a parting gift, those words led the world in quiet reflection.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
— Maya Angelou (@DrMayaAngelou) May 23, 2014

Her works and her life was full of inspiration and strength that inspired millions around the world. For me these are just some of her best and powerful quotes about love, life, work, etc.

15 Best Quotes of Maya Angelou

1. Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
2. All great achievements require time.
3. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
4. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
5. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
6. If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
7. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean..
8. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
9. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
10. You may not control all events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them
11. Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
12. My mother was really telling me to go ahead and love life, to engage in it, give it all you've got. To love it with a passion.
13. It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
14. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.
15. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

The world might lost a great woman, but her legacy of wisdom and knowledge will continue to make millions of people to live life to its fullest. Her words will forever lift our spirits.

Photo Source: The Washington Post

Dr. Maya Angelou passed away at age 86 with a full legacy behind her.  Rest peacefully #MayaAngelou.

15 Best Quotes from The Fault in Our Stars

Photo Source: Amazon

After reading the book The Fault in Our Stars, I've listed my favorite quotes.

#favoritemoviequotes

"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once."

"That’s the good thing about pain. It demands to be felt."

"The marks humans leave are too often scars."

"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."

"You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet."

"My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations."

"I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should."

"I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you."

"It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."

"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with."

"You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful."

"Like we'd had this brief but still infinite forever."

"I never quite caught his scent again."

"Maybe ‘okay’ will be our ‘always’."

"I love you present tense."

- The Fault in Our Stars, #1 New York Times bestseller by John Green.

Soon the film will be shown, so watch out for it too!

Most Inspiring Quotes and Wisdom from Nelson Mandela

Farewell to the great Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), former president of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize winner.

"Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity." - documentary interview, 1994

Mankind lost a mandkind lost a great son who inspired countless individuals. An amazing anti-apartheid leader, peacemaker, and a revolutionary global icon.

Here are some of his uplifiting and inspirational words:

• What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others.
• Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested. but I would not and could not give myself up to despair.
• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
• It always seems impossible until it's done.
• Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
• We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
• I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
• Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.
• Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
• I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
• Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find ways in which you yourself have altered. - A Long Walk To Freedom, 1994.
• A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Long Walk to Freedom, 1994