To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Miracles' rely on their observer’s ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer’s failure to notice the observed’s defects.
We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.
It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.
To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.
Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds, it also kills all the healed.
Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.
Not every poor or unemployed person who has one wears a political party’s t-shirt to reveal their political affiliation, some use it merely to conceal their nipples.
Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.
Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.
Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.
Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.
Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.
There’s a very fine line between being broke and being humble.
Juice is a poor man’s dessert.
Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade.
Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.
Every artist takes their final work to the grave.
When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.
Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.
A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.
A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.
A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.
There are more writers who read than readers who write.
To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.
When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*
A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.
Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.
Everybody is talking about the Law of Attraction. Nobody is talking about the Law of Action.
In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.
Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience.
Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly, without first having to lose one’s life.
A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.
Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.
To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites.
You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.
Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.
Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.
We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.
Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.
