Quotes by Rwandan Authors - Page 3

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.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The mind's health depends on what it feeds on. Avoid thoughts and conversations that kill your soul.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life is a war. Guerrilla warfare, the strategy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't ignore your dreams, in them your soul is awake and you are your true self.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You should never consider finished a war you did not win
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Consider your goal like a war to win and use whatever strategies you know to win
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When a man marries, it's proof he can't govern his life. He needs a governess
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you are doing something good, never do it free
Nelson Nshekanabo
When you look down on yourself, you set an example on how others should treat you.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
They only let us live in millions for the sake of the economy. I don't know what will happen by the time they figure out how to run the economy without the people
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A bad friend is nothing but a spy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It’s natural for people to feel superior to those under them. It requires a conscious effort to value those less fortunate than you are.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
At the end of the day you are your own lawmaker
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Planning is worrying based on facts
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Everything is possible to god, even your success
Bangambiki Habyarimana
After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Learn how they failed and succeeded, then fail on and succeed
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Our problems sometimes show the degree of our relationship with God.
Paul Gitwaza
There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end of you for most people there can’t afford medical care.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Love is the politics of sex
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When you are not full of the Holy Spirit, you easily cower in fear and lack a stand on truth
Paul Gitwaza
Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Society says "Don't talk about sex, just do it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicide
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That's life
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing is magic happening on paper
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Never advise a man against his wife or a wife against his husband. When they come together again you will be the archenemy. When they separate, the fault will all be yours
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Do not despise the water droplets that you receive, soon it will be a river.
Bruce Mbanzabugabo
If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Religion is pure hypnosis
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, he will use your weakness against you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Every life is a unique random business
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Apply the lie detector to everything. You will be amazed at how many lies you will discover. Beware tough, you may discover that you are a lie.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don’t curse the gods you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don't limit yourself to your own means
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.
Bangambiki Habyarimana