Quotes by South African Authors - Page 24

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.
Anthon St. Maarten
Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I will once again keep my eyes open to the changes so that I won't miss even a single spec of chance. Life is possible, believe it, LIFE'S POSSIBLE!
Mphezulu Xetho Dainamyk
As I see, 90%+ (and not less than that) of people go about their lives living 90%+ (and not less) of a lie. choose a different way and live the least truth you might be.
Mphezulu Xetho Dainamyk
Every single man who is too stupid enough to realize how beautiful is God's creation through WOMEN and continuously lay his hand on them, he is not man enough to be classified with the rest of us.
Unarine Ramaru
If you seek happiness through someone else's perspective, you might as well get comfortable in sorrow.
Unarine Ramaru
What qualifies your worthiness is your self-regard.
Unarine Ramaru
Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.
Unarine Ramaru
We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Expand!You are not small. Your Foremothers did not do what they did so you could occupy small!
Malebo Sephodi
Thinking little of yourself is not humility.
Nicky Verd
A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Overrated is order.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
As humans we need each other to give meaning to the word happy!
Unarine Ramaru
Apology is not about saying I'm sorry, but it is about the meaning you put behind the apology and admitting that you are the wrong part.
Unarine Ramaru
The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert talk about the two "hungers". There is the Great Hunger and there is the Little Hunger. The Little Hunger wants food for the belly; but the Great Hunger, the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning...There is ultimately only one thing that makes human beings deeply and profoundly bitter, and that is to have thrust upon them a life without meaning.There is nothing wrong in searching for happiness. But of far more comfort to the soul is something greater than happiness or unhappiness, and that is meaning. Because meaning transfigures all. Once what you are doing has for you meaning, it is irrelevant whether you're happy or unhappy. You are content - you are not alone in your Spirit - you belong.
Laurens van der Post
How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY?
Christina Engela
You will not live the life of royalty, if you don't understand the meaning of loyalty.
Gift Gugu Mona
God will let you into the battlefield so you can understand the meaning of victory.
Gift Gugu Mona
There is a young abused girl whose recovery is dependent on your willingness to honour your calling as a pastor, social worker, psychologist, etc.
D.S Mashego
To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the exact location of a person: where to locate the self?
Nadine Gordimer
At times we convince ourselves, we have something to lose but in fact, who you are and your being remains intact.
Unarine Ramaru
Never forget why you should win or achieve your goals and dreams. Once you feel you are losing purpose in the process, remind yourself why you saw the need to begin in the first place, let that drive you.
Unarine Ramaru
Something that is set can be broken, so are society standards and limits.
Unarine Ramaru
If our lives are pleasing to Allah, and our goals are things which He approves then we can expect His Divine Assistance in accomplishing them, which includes Barakah in our time.
Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar
Growing up is childish.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
With the right MINDSET, you can Survive, Thrive & Grow... Even in the Midst of turbulence and change
Tony Dovale
The foundation of all long-term success lies in building a Resilient and Growth oriented MINDSET.
Tony Dovale
21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.
Tony Dovale
Even the best Mindset will become contaminated and eventually blunted in a toxic organisational culture.
Tony Dovale
Value those who give you constructive criticism, because without them doing so, you will never reach the peak of what you are do.
Unarine Ramaru
Choose criticism wisely, it might help you improve some elements of what you do.
Unarine Ramaru
The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.
Damon Galgut
Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.
J.M. Coetzee
I don't know. I got nothing. No house, no people, no place. Maybe that's troubles. Don't I say?
Alex La Guma
We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.
Anthon St. Maarten
For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A child who was born with a silver spoon is likely to not appreciate all he is provided with.And it is likely that a child who grew up from the dust to look down on others once the floods gate of success opens up for him.It is NOT where you come FROM that matters,But where you are GOING.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
You can have it all,Luxury and wealth,A lot of friends and a good health,And own everything on earth.However, if you have greed,Jealousy, bitter and want not to see anyone get ahead in life.A dumping site is better than you because not everything found on a dumping site has no value.Plastics can be recycled,And some goods are not too bad to be used again.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.
Nelson Mandela
Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No one should ever be allowed to make you feel unworthy of becoming wealthy. Your wealth lies mainly upon your understanding of your worth.
Gift Gugu Mona
People become wealthy when they become specific... when they know what that means to them, not only in terms of the objects and amounts involved - ... but also in terms of how they want this wealth to make them feel.
Kiki Theo
I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through and you will grow with them.
J.M. Coetzee
Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Fear is an abortion of good thoughts
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Your character is a reflection of your thoughts.
Unarine Ramaru
A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being in the world. A tourist simply hops from one tourist highpoint to another, skimming across the surface, cramming in quantity rather than quality, and comes away with his soul and imagination unchanged, untouched by the wonder of a life lived differently.
Roxanne Reid
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the pioneers of time travel, it’s one of the foundation stones of the Theory behind it. It’s something of a paradox – a mind-boggling annotation in the ever-puzzling and ever growing Anals of History. (Some readers may still be thinking that should be ‘Annals’ – however, the author of this work cannot be blamed for what you may think.)
Christina Engela
A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.
Damon Galgut
Mercy is to care, and care very deeply about one another. It is to care to the point where we are prepared to be involved with the sufferings and adversities of others. It implies that I am prepared to put myself in the other person's place. It means that I shall try to really understand why they behave as they do, even though it injures me. It is a willingness to walk a mile in the other man's moccasins before I criticize his conduct. It is the extension of good will, help, forgiveness, compassion and kindness to one who may not seem to deserve it.
W. Phillip Keller
Be kind to every person you meet because we don't know their battles.
Zelda la Grange
And it was then that I realized that families might be the ones who pick us up time and again but strangers also rescue us-even if they don't know they're doing so.
Martin Pistorius