Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes - Page 2

You will always find all the time you need in the world to do what you love. If you can’t find the time, it’s not important for you

All of the wars in the world are fueled by power struggles either at individual, national or international levels

You are not required to perform like them, you are required to perform like you.

There are no laws set in stones, follow your basic instincts, they contain the laws that guide you existence.

You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison

Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold like death

You are not a real thinker if your thoughts haven't landed you in trouble yet

By your behavior you send signals on how people should treat you

There is no difference between ancient and modern paganism. Christianity has five gods: three that band together against one who apparently has managed to stand his ground for millennia, and a mother of god who is worshiped at the same level as the other members of the quadrinity

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.

Men are handicapped in love, either in giving or in receiving. They consider love as a sign of weakness

What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority.

In love the brain is situated in the heart

Before marriage man prays that god give him a wife, after marriage he prays that god save him from her.

If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken

The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it.

False belief is more emotional than true belief

Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone’s dream

Gatekeepers will always try to stop you getting in. But as a true hero, you have to snatch victory from death's jaws.

If you want to be extremely important in people's lives, give them extremely good services they can't find anywhere else

A woman is a poem, a man is a report

Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down

A god without wrath, without intimidation, without punishment, without hell? It would be a paper tiger, a teddy bear!

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

Every book has its ancestors

Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason

Death is the great equalizer

Self-fulfilling prophecy always come to pass

From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are calling you to their club of no god and no hope (which offers nothing in return. Join the club only if you are a strong minded individual capable of handling your life alone without the help of gods. )

It's unfortunate to be bitten by political ambition. The deadly disease causes a man to want to access power by all means either by sacrificing others to its altar or by sacrificing himself when he fails.

Life is so sweet. A man will even kiss the a** of his enemy to have his head spared

Life has a positive and negative side. Happy people ignore the negative side

A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill

Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top

There are many languages in the world but the most widely spoken and understood by everyone are power, love and money.

When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators

The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.

Pain is the University of Life

As long as there will be something to conquer, world peace will be a pipe dream

In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me".

Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be

Politicians look for interests not people

It's true not because it's beyond doubt, but because we believe it to be true. We make it true. We are safe as long as no one can disprove us

We are gods but we are afraid of the ensuing responsibility; that's why we prefer to remain slaves. Only if we dared to rise up to the challenge and assume our divinity, we could perform most of the miracles we pray for.

The mind's health depends on what it feeds on. Avoid thoughts and conversations that kill your soul.

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry

Life is a war. Guerrilla warfare, the strategy

If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction.

Don't ignore your dreams, in them your soul is awake and you are your true self.

If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs

You should never consider finished a war you did not win

Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival

Consider your goal like a war to win and use whatever strategies you know to win

Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot

Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives

When a man marries, it's proof he can't govern his life. He needs a governess