Quotes by South African Authors - Page 25

What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.
Damon Galgut
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
J.M. Coetzee
There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.
J.M. Coetzee
I live by three simple words: compassion, love and gratitude. We need to act on these three words daily. Doing so will irrevocably change your world.
Julian Pencilliah
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
Nadine Gordimer
The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when taken to extremes, a human being can have great concern for other human beings and absolutely no concern for themselves.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Jesus...remains in control of my circumstances, no matter the size of the waves.
Shirley Corder
The luxury of relaxation ... is part of the healing process.
Shirley Corder
Only Jesus can complete.
Phindiwe Nkosi
Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important element in his spirituality: the ability to let go. In the Christian tradition this has been spoken of as “purity of heart” or as the process of becoming “poor in spirit.
Albert Nolan
You Might Not Be A Wife Material,Neither Might You Be Worth MotheringAnyone's Child, According To PEOPLE.You Are However ENOUGH To Make God Leave His Throne And Come Down To Earth To Change Your Situation.You Are ENOUGH To Make Mary Virgin Again For Your Worth To Be Seen Not By The Naked Eye.You Are ENOUGH To Reverse The Curse Of Adam And Eve For God To Redeem You.You Are ENOUGH, My Sister,For Jesus To Be Crucified Again,Just For God To Refill Your Cup.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Like my girlfriend Denisha is always saying (she’s an Episcopalian), some of Jesus’ best friends were sex workers.
Sarah Lotz
What would Jesus do? One thins is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do - is to behave like his followers.
Christina Engela
It is for a specific reason that you were born from that specific place. Never wish that away because it's not where you were born that matters, but who you were born to be. Jesus was born on the kraal and He became a King of Kings.
Gugu Mona
What would Jesus do? One thing is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do - is to behave like his followers.
Christina Engela
We must acknowledge that all we have are, at times very differing, interpretations of what Jesus was all about-and these interpretations, as they are collected in the New Testament, have been written in particular situations by men, none of whom questioned the existing patriarchal structure of their societies or of their communities. While some Christ-believing women did challenge certain male-dominated aspects of their church gatherings (see 1 Cor 14:33b-36) it is quite unlikely that they questioned the patriarchal structure of their society, community, and church on a fundamental level. ~ Werner Kahl in Reading Other-Wise, p. 151
Gerald O. West
Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can’t see.”- Lady Lalaigne
Jeanine Henning
Lisa, love is magical,” Rema said. “Scientists give such simplified explanations for it, and they’re wrong, because love isn’t something that happens in your brain. Love happens in your soul.
Monique Snyman
I believe that there is luminosity hiding in the shadow of the mundane. And things that hover at the periphery of our vision. If that’s magic, then I believe in it.
Natasha Mostert
Write it down. Not just to remember it, but to forget it in the right way. My notebook are a kind of materialized subconscious, a hard-copy memory and its invisible substrata, following their own rules. More than once I have been surprised to discover that an idea I thought was new and original, something I set down in a notebook yesterday, is already contained in another note from years before. Sometimes the second version repeats the first, almost word for word, across the space of a decade. The earlier version, once brought with clarity to the surface, has been covered over again by layers of yellowing paper.
Ivan Vladislavić
Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting
Lauren Beukes
88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Memories rob us of the present.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Life demands more thinking than remembering.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.
Damon Galgut
Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You can map out a whole city according to the weight of memory, like pins on the homicide board tracking the killer's movements. But the connections get thicker and denser and more complicated all the time.
Lauren Beukes
My best memory of school was probably leaving school. Because I hated that fucking place.
Troye Sivan
It feels like I was made to fit here, in the space beneath his heart.
Caroline Greyling
Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit.""We did say it was still only a dream.""And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.
Athol Fugard
Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer’s dream.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An 'Employee of the Month' is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream—in that particular month.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
*Employee* is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else’s nightmare.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To put a dreamer in their place isn’t dreaming.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you got a dream, you are good to go. The only extra luggage you will need is self-belief and perseverance.
Unarine Ramaru
Rest is luxury when you chasing your dreams, don't get used to it and don't prolong it when you get a chance at it.
Unarine Ramaru
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
Wolfgang Riebe
I Lie and that's the Truth
Lebogang Lynx Bopape
Always believe in yourself because you never know,your time could be now.
Charmaine Theron
If you are silent at wrong things happening on your life time, you are destroying your children's future to the next fourth generation to come.
Michael Mnyameni
The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Success is a place in time, Don't be late
Julian Pencilliah
If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn't wear suits.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The atmosphere you create influence the reception the other person will give you.
Unarine Ramaru
Everyone is born with an instinct of success, and ability to make it, but only the ones who think out of the box succeed.
Unarine Ramaru
No matter what the odds say, be even with who you truly are.
Unarine Ramaru
Being a solution and not a problem proves progression.
Unarine Ramaru
The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right.
Unarine Ramaru
I believe a leader is inspired by his/her team to lead them.
Unarine Ramaru
If you don't get any motivation from your team, there is nothing wrong with those you lead but your form of leadership.
Unarine Ramaru
So rich a client having suffered such a messy death was an unsettling embarrassment to Captain Harald Biscay. It was bad for business. He had the murder hushed up immediately, his security staff investigating the matter covertly but thoroughly. Five and a half thousand souls onboard. Five and a half thousand suspects. Three days. So far, nothing. Now it would be taken further by the planetary authorities on the colony world below. A forensic team (cunningly disguised as a cleaning crew) was now rummaging through Smiffs apartment, examining every single particle. He had a feeling -- a strong feeling, about what they were going to find. Somehow, Biscay was of the opinion that this was going to be another contender for the Unsolved Murders show.
Christina Engela