Wisdom Quotes - Page 169

There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A revolutionary who is out to defeat his enemies could use their weapons, but not their rules.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.

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

...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes make them stronger.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality,

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

I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

There's nothing you can do about the past." "You're wrong. I can learn from it..." Tariq dug his heels into his stallion's flanks, and the horse shot forward, painting a dark smudge across the sand. "And I can make sure it never happens again!

One of the first lessons I learned in working life was that you don't need to like every one of your colleagues, and they don't need to like you either. You just have to respect them, and getting their respect in return.

Marcella Purnama

Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them.

TemitOpe Ibrahim

The grass is greener on the other side, but often this is just an illusion. Most probably, everyone is as unhappy as you.

Marcella Purnama

Your inner voice is your signboard, follow it

The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.

The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offers. --Anissa's Redemption

Zack Love

The Sun, the Stars, the Seas with all other things were made by the Divine Being, God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah, said, "Money matters is only a matter of fancy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

A man’s true world should be the space and people that enrich his soul,

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

Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A woman’s love is all a man should expect from his wife. That love could be translated into so many positive things, especially if it is reciprocated.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Life is a rare fantasy that can be made a reality by being objective.

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

...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

The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humanism.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The good shall prevail in the end, the truth shall be the rule and the Cameroonian soul shall be free,” Hans said in an emotion-choked voice, “However, we should never lose our heads; we should always be prepared to forgive all the repentant souls.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your life…By wisdom a house is built, by understanding it is established; And by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

Wisdom solves almost anything

Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will drive the world to the brink of failure and catastrophe and beyond into the abyss with arrogance and anger because wisdom is often too polite to fight. Wisdom doesn’t like to impose its will, but that is all ignorance understands—force over free will and choice. Sooner or later the world comes to its senses, but oh the damage that has been done.

Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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

…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

Ignorance is the master key of all evils.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz

A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.

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

There is madness in the heart of a man.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Evil is of the devil.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Unknown

I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.

Bertrand Russell

Here is the test of wisdom, Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

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

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