Inspirational Quotes - Page 506

Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Regalia. You see, I was tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Everyday when I wake I tell myself it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it."Gregor thought this was the single saddest thing anyone had ever said to him. He couldn't answer."And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?
Suzanne Collins
We seek excellence before we seek understanding, wisdom before we gain knowledge, success before we understand hardwork; for this reason we need great teachers and leaders.
Wayne Chirisa
Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.
Abhijit Naskar
Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.
Abhijit Naskar
Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.
Abhijit Naskar
Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.
Abhijit Naskar
When you are wise, peace shall follow.
Abhijit Naskar
Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.
Abhijit Naskar
We must cultivate our heads. But nurture our hearts.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.
Abhijit Naskar
Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.
Abhijit Naskar
A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.
Abhijit Naskar
Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.
Abhijit Naskar
Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.
Abhijit Naskar
At what point is normal natural?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The wise shall learn.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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
Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
When faced with difficulties, a humble, understanding, appreciative and selfless person finds it easy to win a friend. On the other hand, a temperamental, egoistic, condensing, self-absorbed, self-conceited and narrow-minded person who lacks the basic sense of humility easily loses friends when in distress.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
There are people who bring joy to our lives, but who fail to make us happy. They are the people for the moment. Never rely on their love because it is not sustainable. Their love is alike a comet that illuminates the sky, but then fades away because it lacks the sustainable energy of the sun.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
We need the wisdom to accept the fact that this world abounds with issues we cannot solve; and we need to part ways with those people, ideas and things that are a vexation to the soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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