Quotes by South African Authors - Page 28

Guilt and Regret always pulls one down.They have an impact like that of gravity.They heavy you like few tons of concrete,Therefore,Instead of growing, moving on and learning from your mistakes,You will wine and dine with Would Have's and Could Have's.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
You are my friend because I saw my ability to increase my knowledge around you.
Unarine Ramaru
Learning from others is primary to your success, even doctors seek advice from specialists.
Unarine Ramaru
If you love someone let them know, if you hate someone learn to love them.
Unarine Ramaru
One of the things I enjoy about being young is learning from my elders without them giving direct advise.
Unarine Ramaru
I hate coming out of conversations without learning anything.
Unarine Ramaru
Failure is not actually an event, it is more a reaction to an event and is an important part of learning.
Unarine Ramaru
I don't want to be like my mentor or inspiration, I can do better. Don't get me wrong, I need them to motivate and inspire me but my potential can never be like theirs.
Unarine Ramaru
Curiosity is always good if it is aimed at learning.
Unarine Ramaru
When you love something, you seek to learn its primitive form and also its concentrated form.
Unarine Ramaru
Every challenge presents a good chance for learning something new.
Gift Gugu Mona
Living is the right to exercise Freedom any time without any guilt or whatsoever. Deathis living without Freedom. Resurrection is living for the Dead. Eternity is victory overdeath and not many will taste of it." - Freddy Schofeild Mahhumane
Freddy Sipho Mahhumane
there are no great things in life, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to Meet.
Rodney Masemola
Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather many wounds; but cherish your scars for they are the proud emblems of a truly phenomenal life. The fearful, cautious, cynical and self-repressed do not live at all. And that is simply no way to be in this world.
Anthon St. Maarten
Life is the opportunity to Influence, Inspire, Motivate, Teach, Give and Love
Unarine Ramaru
Be the good, kind, lovable person you want to see in the world. Every action counts and the more people who behave and act with love and caring the more the world becomes a better place. We can do this!
Deon Potgieter
A man is not determined by how much he earns. You can still be the man of the house and earn less than your woman. Being a man is not what you have , it's who you are. Being more of a man doesn't mean your woman has to be less than you.
Trevor Noah
Muslim children should be raised with the understanding that once they hit puberty they are adults and Mukallaf (responsible for their actions). This understanding is crucial to assist them in passing the tests of youth.
Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar
If there is one thought with regard to the Church of Christ, which at times comes to me with overwhelming sorrow; if there is one thought in regard to my own life of which I am ashamed; if there is one thought of which I feel that the Church of Christ has not accepted it and not grasped it; if there is one thought which makes me pray to God: “Oh, teach us by Thy grace, new things”—it is the wonderful power that prayer is meant to have in the kingdom. [. . .] And that is the law of the kingdom—the King upon the throne, the servants upon the footstool.
Andrew Murray
God promises to hear and answer our prayers, but he doesn't always answer the way we want him to.
Shirley Corder
Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
All the seeming "coincidences" .... were actually God catching me in his arms.
Shirley Corder
When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
During the prayers of the day, there was one less “amen”.
Phindiwe Nkosi
Caring is going to the ends of the world for a stranger.
Bernard Levine
My prayer is to seek, find and serve God.
Gift Gugu Mona
GOD will never disregard or turn away sincere prayers from those who diligently seek Him and humbly call upon His Name.
Errol Anthony Smythe
Those who recite prayers do not pray from their heart but are heard to say the words of the prayers that someone wrote down some time ago.
Errol Anthony Smythe
Pray for others because others are selflessly praying for you as well.
Gift Gugu Mona
The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His Name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works. The disciple who lives only for Jesus' work and Kingdom, for His will and honor, will be given the power to appropriate the promise. Anyone grasping the promise only when he wants something very special for himself will be disappointed, because he is making Jesus the servant of his own comfort. But whoever wants to pray the effective prayer of faith because he needs it for the work of the Master will learn it, because he has made himself the servant of his Lord's interests.
Andrew Murray
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
Andrew Murray
The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.
Andrew Murray
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!
Andrew Murray
Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.
Andrew Murray
Being depressed is one thing when your life can be seen by outsiders as justifiably hard, but it is a whole different shameful story when you have everything and still feel like you can't bear to get out of bed in the morning. People can't really be sympathetic to you when they can begin to fathom what you could be so upset about.
Boyd Varty
Cos every breath is unbearably painful
Nomzamo Nhlumayo
There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.
Anthon St. Maarten
You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.
Antony Sher
Faeces by any other name would smell as gross
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.
Unarine Ramaru
In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never let anything be a set back in your life, not even your thoughts, words nor actions.
Gugu Mona
There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.
Christina Engela
Subtle voices’ are those positive or negative words that are subtly spoken into our lives. These ‘subtle voices’, although subtle, are too powerful because they tend to shape our thoughts and inform our actions. That is why it is essential that we be selective of what we allow into our thoughts.
D.S Mashego
There is a huge difference between those who follow Christ by words only and those who do so by action. The latter will always let you experience the steadfast love of God whenever you come into contact with them.
Gift Gugu Mona
Negative words have a way of permeating our system and making themselves comfortable in our sub-conscious.
D.S Mashego
Words are powerful, so use every word wisely to create a better world.
Gift Gugu Mona
Words have an immeasurable impact, they can either build or destroy so be careful of your words.
Gift Gugu Mona
My wandering imagination never gives up on me and always finds ways to explore what my emotions entail.
Chimnese Davids
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person—flawed, complex, striving—you’ve reached beyond stereotype.
Hazel Rochman
Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing … with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I hate reading poems—school made me hate them. I’d spend hours interpreting one, just to read the memorandum and realize I’d be fucked during exams. I remember making a little asterisk next to every question I struggled with, and at the end of the paper, I’d realize I was looking at the fucking Milky Way.
Danielle Esplin
You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you.
J.M. Coetzee
We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature...Literature is a compass;
Thabo Jijana
I see the process of reaching out, sharing yourself, communicating, establishing contact between two people as similar to, if not the same as, the interaction between two people entering a relationship in literature – that is, as reader and writer. Both seem to have the same astounding possibilities and the same terrible pitfalls. But if you battle through and souls touch, magic happens. Love. We feel more human, more alive, more understood, naked and yet protected from the cold of isolation and indifference. Our loneliness is, temporarily, held at bay.
Karina Szczurek