Famous Quotes

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

Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can’t directly influence things.

~ 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

At what point is normal natural?

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The wise shall learn.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

~ Fredrik Backman

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

We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves, but most people prefer to identify with an entity for the sake of belonging, thereby subjecting themselves to the spirit of collective selfishness that is only found in groups.

~ Janvier 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

I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I should succeed in disproving the oracle and pointing out to my divine authority 'You said that I was the wisest of men, but here is a man who is wiser than I am.' Well, I gave a thorough examination to this person... and in conversation with him I formed the impression that although in many people's opinion, and especially in his own, he appeared to be wise, in fact he was not. Then when I began to try to show him that he only thought he was wise and was not really so, my efforts were resented both by him and by many of the other people present. However, I reflected as I walked away: 'Well, I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know... [A]s I pursued my investigation at the god's command,... my honest impression was... that the people with the greatest reputations were almost entirely deficient, while others who were supposed to be their inferiors were much better qualified in practical intelligence.

~ Socrates

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

It is not something we often find out, but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.

~ 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

Motivation gets you started, and inspiration keeps you going.

~ Brandon Garic Notch

One day at a time, one round at a time, one step at time.

~ Brandon Garic Notch

Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.

~ Jacqueline Winspear

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

Faith is focus.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it.

~ Ian Gregoire

Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

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.

~ Zack Love