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.
He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.
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.
It is not something we often find out, but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.
...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.
...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?
When you are wise, peace shall follow.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Mom often said to me, I know if you look good, you get special treatment. And then she went a step further: I don't care what the world says or does. You have to remember that every person is valuable.
~ Ashley Graham
But I stayed up thinking about how I've been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep ritual. And I lied to him again just as we were growing more intimate than ever and he asked me about my scar.
~ Zack Love
He clearly suffers from some past traumas too, so hopefully he'll understand why I was untruthful to him about mine.
Adding to my emotional dizziness on Sunday, I spoke with my sister, who kept noting how amazing Michael is, and what a brave and selfless man he is for having helped as he did.
Living beings have this in common, the breath of life.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If you reflect on death, you find the vanity of life.
Karma says what you give is what you get, so why do the loyal person end up being betrayed
~ Treyco From Waco
When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.
~ O. S. Hickman
Wasting time is when seconds, minutes and hours are passing without being converted
~ Sunday Adelaja
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
...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
...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...
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.
...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...
...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...
...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life...
ON LIVING LIFE WISELY - To make the right choices, you have to be at peace with yourself.
~ Tara Estacaan
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.
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.
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
When one door closes, a window opens and then zombies pile in and bite you in the ass.
~ Unknown
My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.
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.
A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.
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.
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
Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious.
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.
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.
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.
