Quotes by Rwandan Authors - Page 8

. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A writer is never alone, he is always with himself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am what I have ever read
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Destiny is not what you become but what you do with it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Whatever we do and are, we are given the means thereof
Bangambiki Habyarimana
How bitter they cry in need, those who refuse to help others in trouble!
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with none having done absolutely nothing to suffer the furies or merit the graces.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Condition A must be in place for action B to take place
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Never get angry against fate, she is looking for someone to crush, why put a spotlight on yourself?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We are the products of fate, from beginning to end
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Those who think fate is against them have already crucified themselves. They have already decided what fate should do with them
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Nothing in nature happens voluntarily. Everything is forced to happen. There is a hidden hand that forces things to move.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You are received the way you present yourself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.
Paul Gitwaza
Words can make or break, use your words carefully
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Even if you are not evil, pretend to be. It will put off some abuse
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The greatest wisdom is to be happy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero
Bangambiki Habyarimana
True understanding lies beyond the desert
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You are what you believe
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If there is no reward, there is no reason to run
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Know the laws before you break them
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Please others and you please yourself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Calm is the best revenge
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married couples to have sex
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard
Bangambiki Habyarimana
True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you think you can't, you're wrong and right
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.
Paul Gitwaza
People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Sex is an open secret parents try to hide to their children
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you want to know about sex don't ask your parents. They don't have any and know nothing about it. Find out yourself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Society says "Don't talk about sex, just do it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Sex is too sweet to speak about, you must only do it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I believe in fatalism, the positive one.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don't limit yourself to your own means
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If success is a miracle then you must be the miracle worker
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Stop searching for god in the farthest corners of the universe. He is in you. You are it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When you start doing the impossible, you make it possible
Bangambiki Habyarimana