G Swiss

There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.

C. JoyBell C.

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The people are like an audience watching a drama. They have characters whose sides they chose even before the start of the show, but they know little or nothing about the people behind the stage―the manipulators.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...We find our greatest peace when we embrace something that gives meaning to our lives. Often, it is love for somebody or something we can give up our lives for, or somebody or something that we are sure will never betray us. That love could be for a partner, for our offspring, for a country or for a belief...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The Romans construed Jesus Chris’s crucifixion as a defeat, but what do we have today? Christianity triumphed. Jesus Christ never betrayed himself, he never betrayed his mission and he never corrupted the ideas that God wants us to live by. The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humaneness. There is no reason to try to kill it because it will triumph ultimately.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Sons, any man who is considered a success in life owes a lot to society. We have been very blessed, my dear sons. We have to show our appreciation to our society for making that possible. A time will come when you will meet other Kamerunians who share the same vision for this land. I am advising you to make them partners in our common goals when that time comes. We shouldn’t shy away from playing a formidable role in financing that political force that shall emerge. We must use our influence to ensure that it succeeds.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Most of our brains are out, but it is good what they did for themselves by leaving this country. They are Cameroon’s reserve for development, for the day that this country shall be free. Your late father was an intelligent man. He was even more than that. He was a sage. He once said to me that the intelligent Bamilekés are those who have sought a better future for themselves and for their families in British Cameroons. He was right. They have not been brainwashed as much as their francophone brothers have. If he were alive today, I am sure he would have judged that the intelligent Cameroonians are those who have sought refuge out of Cameroon.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

…what else do we have to ensure our sanity except our love for something beyond ourselves―our love for our families, our love for our fatherland?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test their talents. These latent talents will only help to produce the next cycle of dropouts...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people’s destiny is charted...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

At what point is normal natural?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The people’s hero does not only have to be someone in possession of the scepter of power. It can be anyone capable of giving unity, prosperity, security, peace and a sense of worthiness to his people. Such a figure gets elevated to the status of a revered hero with the human touch if he imparts a sense of oneness on a multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-religious group; especially a diverse people who have been fighting one another for years and centuries...

Janvier Chando

My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul.

Janvier Chando

a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

Janvier Chando

The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.

Janvier Chando

It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...

Janvier Chando

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him up and help him be in sync with the non-artistic part of his soul.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their personal feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters they have weaved. And in a curious way, without them really knowing it, writers are the sum total of the characters they created in their heads or in their writings. Yes, My Dear Tania; writers are capable of reflecting their characters, even though most of them are determined to be just like your ordinary guy next door.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

When somebody you love dies, a phase of life’s innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

…a writer, like most artists, needs a partner who can act as the fuel to his artistic mind and soul, yet has the great ability to sober him up and help him be in sync with the non-artistic part of his soul.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

In today’s world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Life is full of intriguing souls that you cannot penetrate… An uncomfortable percentage of those anguished and impregnable souls also have suffering hearts that are further tormented by a deluded mind. They will hurt out of an impulse, and then live their lives after that without the slightest remorse.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Avoid people who hurt from an impulse. I mean people who have this tendency to relish their capacity to hurt the good souls of this world, and who after hurting, wake up the next day without a trace of despondent brooding, and then move on with life never thinking that they should show some remorse or try to repent.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

In your selflessness pursuit of things higher than yourself, you appear selfish or inconsiderate to those who truly love you and who have cared deeply about you from the first day you came into their lives.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A man can’t talk of true happiness if he has never known true love—the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The true leaders of our time, the legends of this world or the movers of the movers are the towering figures that are blessed with beautiful minds, receptive ears and directing voices. They are the ones we should emulate in life.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Previous 1 … 54 55 56 57 58 Next

Family Quotes - Page 56

Related Topics