Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes - Page 9

Doubt is the first ray of illumination

People don't only speak with their mouths. They speak with their whole being. Sometimes they mean what they don't say and say what they don't mean; so listen with your whole being also. Let your whole being connect to theirs. Do not only listen to their voice, but also to their body language and their emotions. Listen with your ears and your heart.

Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live accordingly to cope with it

There is hope for you when your opinions are in opposition to those of the majority. Your brain mighty be working as it was meant to.

Love is a sweet dream until the hand of reality wakes you up

We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.

If there is no reward, there is no reason to run

If you want a meaningful life for yourself don't ask "What can the world offer to me?" but "What can I offer to the world?

Success is across the roaring river, the brave shall cross it

Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name

Opportunity and risk come in pairs

I asked a man who took a death boat to Europe across the treachelous waters of the Mediterranean from Libya"Why are you taking this death boat". "I am already dead." He said. This is my coffin. If I succeed to get to the other side, I get a new life. If I fail, I loose nothing. I remain what I am now: Dead.

How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

In the modern city life, if you don't have money , you simply don't have life.

I came looking for life and I found you

Where love passes it leaves an indelible mark

We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together.

Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, it gives him pleasure

A man who wants to imitate the life of a woman will invariably do some mischief

We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life

The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it’s not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of robbery and live. These thieves are praised as national heroes and liberators or as successful entrepreneurs.

Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.

Some people are bringing the business tricks of scarcity mentality into God's mind. They will tell you that only a few will see God. Why? God's heart is infinitely huge, his arms infinitely large that all of us can have a place in him

There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it

In politics what you see is not what you get

Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men

Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics

When I look at the multitude of the gods of the past held in esteem by great civilisations now cast aside as pagan idols, I wonder wether tomorrow the gods we hold in high esteem won't suffer the same fate.

You create your future by what you do in the present

In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines

Never laugh at the fate of others, you are the next

A humble heart, a friendly look, a smile on the face is really what you need to break the ice, not a very big axe.

Trouble is the place where you find yourself when your judgment malfunction

I love theologians, they know god cannot speak so they spend their energy trying to explain to us what his silence means

No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins.

Hell and heaven are within us

Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds

Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her

It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were in error and begin again from square one until they discover the true theory. It's quite different with theologians, they build false theory upon false theory until they give you detailed descriptions of heaven and hell and construct dogmas to protect their errors and if you dare say they are in error they condemn you to eternal damnation they arrived at through false theories

Don't despise people because of their defects or because of their lack of talents and gifts. Imagine if people did it for you, how many friends would you be left with?

There are friendships that are greater than family bonds, but they are very rare

Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will sacrifice others himself to get it

Hell is nothing but a place we wish God has created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us

You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise

What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope.

Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them

If there are any ifs to salvation then no one is saved by grace. Everyone saves himself who can meet the requirements

Reason is the beheaded king, emotion the slave revolt

When you start doing the impossible, you make it possible

Writing is self-pleasure

What some politicians really mean when they saythis country: me, my party, my ethnic groupinternational justice is biased: they want to arrest meterrorists: oppositionillegal immigrants: refugeeselections: remaining in powerpeace: eliminating the oppositioninternational community: the rich countriesthe people: sympathisers of my party

Eternity is today

The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

The most successful men work smart, not hard

Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do so

Play with the emotions, play with the heart and the animal will surrender to yo

Keep calm and live

Some people sit at life’ banquet table while others serve them

You are what you believe

Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen