Quotes by South African Authors - Page 27

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.
Phindiwe Nkosi
Fear manifested itself as a physical presence that seemed to dominate the public sphere. Time almost stopped. Even without confirmation I could sense that something had gone terribly wrong.
Phindiwe Nkosi
Dear Jesus! you are so precious to me. I thank God that even if I went through so much loss in life, I still have you.
Gugu Mona
Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.
Gugu Mona
There’s a correlation between the number of digits on a man’s bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this instinct - it should be your first reaction. NOT violence, anger and hatred! That is something we are taught, it's a Choice You Make.
Michelle Horst
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela
Never waste time holding grudges for people who have wronged you.Time waits for no one.Apologise when you are wrong,Express your love when you should,Forgive the ones who wronged you,And appreciate the one who makes efforts to see you smile.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy.
Unarine Ramaru
Practice mercy and forgiveness throughout as a lesson that symbolizes the love shown through his crucifixion.
Unarine Ramaru
Sometimes all you need is to forgive yourself.
Unarine Ramaru
Forgiveness is the way we return what has been taken from us and restore the love and kindness and trust that has been lost. With each act of forgiveness, whether small or great, we move toward wholeness. Forgiveness is nothing less than how we bring peace to ourselves and our world.
Desmond Tutu
When you set out to change the world, the job seems insurmountable, but each of us can do his or her small part to effect change. We change the world when we choose to create a world of forgiveness in our own hearts and minds.
Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is the best way to disempower an enemy.
Gugu Mona
A strong person forgives even the most unforgivable.
Gugu Mona
You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is self remedy.
Gugu Mona
Forgiving is not forgetting. It is actually remembering - remembering and not using your right to hit back
Archbishop Desmont Tutu
GOD Forgave you and GOD forgave me so you and I need to always forgive those who offend us and curse us and speak and write lies about us.
Errol Anthony Smythe
Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and to be free from the past. Without forgiveness, we remain tethered to the person who harmed us. We are bound to the chains of bitterness, tied together, trapped. Until we can forgive the person who harmed us, that person will hold the keys to our happiness, that person will be our jailor. When we forgive, we take back control of our own fate and our feelings. We become our own liberator.
Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is the best way to disempower the enemy.
Gift Gugu Mona
You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is a remedy to self.
Gift Gugu Mona
There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton
There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
Nelson Mandela
Association brings impartation
Dorothy Nthako
when you don't see anything Good about your Life know that , the best is in your because the good is not in you
siphesihle manzini
when things are not happening the way you expect them to be know that something is happening the way God plan it for you
siphesihle manzini
Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet under.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Meeting, for the first time in person, someone that you’ve ‘known’ for sometime online = Taking the relationship to the ‘previous’ level.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is a correlation between one’s estimation of the odds of finding a new lover who is, at the least, of the same standard as they one they’re currently in a dead relationship with, and, their attempting to revive a dead relationship.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I want to commune with Christ and live in His fullness or I don't want anything to do with Christianity. I want all God has to offer.
Alan de Jager
Never let the little things, disrupt the biggest things you cherish in life. The smallest mistake, can cause the biggest regret and hurt to your closest companion.
Unarine Ramaru
In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people’s opinions and/or expectations.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If we praise God when things are tough, we show our trust in Him.
Shirley Corder
The first lie of life is to say that there is such a thing as trust. Can you truly say you even trust yourself?
Michelle Horst
At times,trust is bound to be broken,promises are bound not to be kept,hearts are bound to be hurt,mistakes are bound to be make.You are also bound to meet a person at their worst in order for you to confirm that you want to be part of their lives.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
I saw the figure of 178 Billion wasted/stolen from the people of a country by its corrupt and inept government. Such a figure could truly transform the entire country; education, health, roads, schooling, entrepreneurial environment... of millions of people, rather than be secreted away as a few more 0000's in global bank accounts for the greeders.We need to Rethink Public Service, Values, Ethics and Leadership.
Tony Dovale
The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will?
Alan de Jager
Sometimes it's better to pretend as if you know nothing. The vast majority of people can't be trusted, but in God I trust.
S.Z.J. Mtshali
Even when told to trust no one, the truth is, no one feels comfortable around people they cannot trust.
Gift Gugu Mona
Remember that whatsoever you desire, God is the most dependable provider.
Gift Gugu Mona
Our route toward spiritual evolution is radiantly clear. We all have our own unique individual journey to walk toward enlightenment. Living on the brink of evolutionary change means that new ground is being broken and new consciousness is being raised. Truth is of the essence – we have no dogma, no set formula, no prescribed rules, no false standards to follow. All we have is the truth within our souls. I believe most of us want to follow the light, the path of healing and not destroying our earth, but we don't have the courage, the lion heart, to follow our individual truth toward enlightenment. Giving in to our fears, we bury our “gold” beneath the false value systems of our societies, and we attempt to comfort ourselves with the notion that we have no power or responsibility for what is happening to our world. The reality is that, potentially, we all have the power of light – the White Lion – within us. The very first step is to overcome our fears. Thereafter, our hearts will lead the way.
Linda Tucker
Ever since her diagnosis, she’s been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.
Danielle Esplin
Let your star shine so bright such that those still in darkness can finally see the light.
Gugu Mona
The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so much a final frontier as an ultimate frontier; the ultimate frontier – as wide as it is deep. Stars shine coldly in the unimaginable blackness. Out of the darkness, a tiny speck caught the distant light of stars – a tiny gray speck that, as it moved, seemed to grow larger, catching the light just so until it revealed itself to be a ship.
Christina Engela
You know you walk in the light when the enemy keeps reminding you of your past mistakes, because the enemy's role is to derail into darkness.
Gift Gugu Mona
Large Squares, 1965 -Last BeetleThe body is much the same as the previous model, aside from increase in window size all round. Door handles and lock mechanisms also changed as well as seat and dashboard designs. Chrome beading became thinner, mounting holes for these also smaller. Chrome was later replaced by black anodizing or plastic to try and modernize the Bug. Tail light clusters changed from the oval shape to the ‘headstone’ and then the ‘elephant’s foot’ jumbo units the bug saw its last days with. In 1965 new larger windows all round. 1966 saw the last 6v bug, and also the first 1300cc motor. Those horrible little air vents behind the rear side windows came out in 1971 that caused lots of rusty bugs. Sloping headlights looked much nicer but went out in 1967.
Christina Engela
The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Rethink Your Success Mindset: At the end of your life, the only things that really matter... are matters of your heart.
Tony Dovale
Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset
Tony Dovale
Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)
Tony Dovale
ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.
Tony Dovale
Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.
J.M. Coetzee
He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying to her 'I don't know how you do it,' in order not to have to hear her say in return, 'Someone has to do it.
J.M. Coetzee