Quotes by Rwandan Authors - Page 4

Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Hell and heaven are within us
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The gap inside you needs someone who deserves you to feel it. Once you found him/her you will always feel the deep happiness that you never had before. Love will always be there watching.
Jean Nshimiyimana
Home is where you feel more welcome, more secure, have more rights, where you are loved. This place can be any place even away from what you would normally call home.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life has a positive and negative side. Happy people ignore the negative side
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The mind's health depends on what it feeds on. Avoid thoughts and conversations that kill your soul.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It does not matter what you have but who you are
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Endeavor to create heaven on earth and turn your heart into the new Jerusalem
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Humility Preceeds Glory
Paul Gitwaza
Don't think you are irreplaceable, or the world will end when you are gone
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Every book has its ancestors
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing is exposing yourself to strangers
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
One day I will write a book. An epitaph
Bangambiki Habyarimana
No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A good man? A man who successfully conceals his evil actions
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Woman must be financially independent to be free in love
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am not an atheist. I simply believe in a god different from yours
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Atheism is not against god, it is against the religious establishment who use god they have never seen or heard from to establish their influence over the minds of men.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you are a pastor there is no way you can lose faith without losing face, you are considered the devil incarnate by your former congregation
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We are not moved by reasons but by emotions
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Knock on the heart’s emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don’t fight with your enemy’s brains, fight with his heart
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor or president, for these worlds from the top can be a wind sock for what might happen next.
Paul Rusesabagina
You will see true character after a defeated ambition
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Love will be safe until the brain wakes up
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The greatest law is: love yourself first
Bangambiki Habyarimana
In love the brain is situated in the heart
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I don't know the beginnings and the end of all things? But apparently most people do.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Open your mind and let the universe speak to you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Asking for blessings,receiving blessings, becoming a blessing,becoming a source of blessings
Paul Gitwaza
The Bible is man in a nutshell. Good and evil live side by side in the same book. That's why it's cherished. The good find in it encouragement, the weak solace, the evil, justification.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I admire the way the Bible defies anybody who wants to nail it on a preferred meaning. There are so many ways to interpret the Bible as there are different opinions about what a certain passage or verse really means. So anybody can go there and read a meaning into (eigesis) whatever passage or verse he wants to suit his inclinations. Proof that the Bible is inspired? It caters for all sorts of people and views.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A full fridge is like an empty one: What am I going to eat?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths
Bangambiki Habyarimana
As old lies are laid to rest, new ones sprout from their ashes, as deadly as their ancestors
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Apply the lie detector to everything. You will be amazed at how many lies you will discover. Beware tough, you may discover that you are a lie.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The hard truth is that sometimes we need to lie to ourselves to continue to live
Bangambiki Habyarimana
People tell all kinds of lies to save their skins.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Honesty is a very choosy virtue
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Why do women use make-up? They know the world is a make-up
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Honestly speaking honesty can sometimes land you in hot waters
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what hat great achievement have they realized!
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You want to be great? Help others achieve their greatness
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing
Bangambiki Habyarimana
One man encompasses all of humanity. Harming one man is harming humanity
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's a sin only if it harms you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not
Bangambiki Habyarimana
They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves.
Bangambiki Habyarimana