Beautiful Tagalog Words
- walanghiya - liveliness and eagerness
- charot - a reason for being
- putok - natural scent of a person
- pokpok - awareness that nothing is ever permanent
- abnoy - things that remind you of yourself
- chaka - something added to embellish and make something perfect
- kupal - the feeling of great achievement due to putting more effort
- anyare - a profound insight
- gago - powerfully persuasive
- echos - being mindful of small details
- jejemon - verbosity
- bwisit - purpose in life
- tanga - something everyone seems to be except for you
- weh - things left unsaid
- bokya - reaching the zenith
- ulol - picturing things in your head
- supot - something that didn’t happen because of waiting for too long
- baliw - ephemeral beauty
- hinayupak - overflowing with fervor
- ansabe - wanting someone to repeat what they said that made you happy
- punyeta - finding beauty in things despite their imperfections
- tarantado - a convivial person
(via silahis)
“I will be ashes, but meaningful ashes. I will be dust, but dust in love.”— Severo Sarduy, tr. by Suzanne Jill Levine, from “Cuba with a Song,” c. 1972
“Develop a sense of self. A solidness that can’t be attacked.”— Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals,”
when nina simone said “anger has its place. anger has fire. and fire moves things.”
“I don’t know what to do with my heart.”— Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Lavinia Dickinson written c. March 1862