Life Quotes - Page 542

...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness that has an almost religious underlining to it.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Men have the blood of their fathers and the passions of their mothers, in the same sense that women have the blood of their mothers and the passions of their fathers. We often find ourselves trapped in life when we fail to balance the two. The most unusual of men are those who are haunted by the warped blood of their fathers and the untamed passions of their mothers. They become either the legends of the legends that mankind remembers for generations or they end up as the fools of their time,

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

Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious.

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

Wisdom solves almost anything

Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules

In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above all, I had to see her again and find out what, if anything, would happen between her and me.

Zack Love

But I did feel the vertigo of death’s invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my wavering soul. I came to realize, just in time, that suicide was far too easy – and obscenely cowardly – after someone I knew, not even half my age, had been through so much worse and still marched gloriously on.

Zack Love

She was somehow this damaged creature I had fortuitously encountered along my path and now cared about as a result. Granted, I didn't cause her harm, as I did with Icarus, but I somehow began to feel responsible for her welfare.

Zack Love

Do not forget you will never live forever.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When one door closes, a window opens and then zombies pile in and bite you in the ass.

Unknown

Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely

Every year as you grow older it is your duty to add more years of wisdom. This wisdom may come in many ways. Use it to the best of your abilities

Jochebed Gwamna

My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.

Zack Love

But then, as I looked in the mirror, I became fixated on some hairs near my carotid artery that were still there. I pushed the blade deep against my neck to shave them off, and then blood squirted out.

Zack Love

A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.

Zack Love

The lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the whole thing for many reasons.

Zack Love

Instead of complaining, discover ways, tactics and tricks on how to reach out to people

Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young.

Daphne du Maurier

Don’t always deprive yourself trying to please others

Money is created from time

Money is a compensation for time spent

Everything is derived from time

Joblessness gives you unlimited access to wealth

Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any goal he set himself, however rarified and dazzling, even if it were folly for anyone else to even consider it.

Alexandre Dumas

...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

ON LIVING LIFE WISELY - To make the right choices, you have to be at peace with yourself.

Grades are still important, but they are not the most important things. As clichéd as it is, the things you learn outside class is more important than the textbooks you blindly memorize in time for exams.

Marcella Purnama

And I still don’t know what I would do next. I still don’t know how to become an adult. But I know for sure that my parents would be proud of me, proud of their three daughters, no matter what path we choose. And it doesn’t matter if we get lost or choose the wrong path, because what matters is choosing to get back up once again.

Marcella Purnama

The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift

Occupy the earth with the multiplication of yourself

Use time to convert yourself

Add value to yourself by exchanging your time with knowledge

Use your time to gain knowledge

Convert your time into useful assets

Convert your time into value

Use your time to create yourself

Invest in yourself by discovering your gift

Time is taken to derive wisdom

Wisdom is the result of time well spent

You can only gain the benefit of something when you invest and spend time

Use time to discover who you are

Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you

Always convert your time into wisdom

Nothing exists that is more valuable than time

You can create any product from time

Our Peter Pan generation is unhappy. All our lives, we want to grow up—to be treated like adults, to have freedom to choose. Then we get here and it turns out being an adult sucks. We pay the bills and taxes, watching others succeed while we are forever waiting for our turn. We believe we are special, but nothing special has come our way.

Marcella Purnama

Time is a rare resource and must be invested wisely

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