Quotes by South African Authors - Page 31

To be loved, is to be immortal.
Lynette Ferreira
The marriage between potential and inspiration is pronounced by willingness. If one isn't there, then you will chase inspiration instead of it finding you.
Unarine Ramaru
You can only be twice someone’s age once.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Failure for one is a source of creativity, build on it and a different story will puzzle itself.
Unarine Ramaru
I am not moved by riches and fame, but selflessness and a passion for humanity.
Gugu Mona
Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
Olive Schreiner
Don't be discouraged when people leave your life because you can still fulfill your God given purpose without them. Remember that your destiny is not tied to any human being, but in line with God's purpose.
Gugu Mona
Good words alone does not make a person good, but good deeds makes a person great.
Gugu Mona
I am not perfect,my roots are not watered with perfection.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies.
Christina Engela
The panic crawled throughout his limbs like a million tiny newborn spiders.
Calvin Demmer
I know there will be spring as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.
Olive Schreiner
Validate yourself and know that you can achieve great things.
Gift Gugu Mona
The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.
Unarine Ramaru
The most rewarding times are those spent in changing lives for the sake of humanity.
Gift Gugu Mona
Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.
Andrew Murray
When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't.
Desmond Tutu
Some women would not have contracted an STD or STDs had they not been on the pill.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love is being able to carry each others circumstances and making it your own, even though you didn't play a role in its foundation.
Unarine Ramaru
Hope is the heartbeat of the soul~
Michelle Horst
Maybe the Truth of the Meaning of Life, Ancient and Arcane Knowledge of the Great Unknowable Universe is handed down only to persons presenting with the correct brand-name footwear. If you turn up wearing Shoe City knock-offs, you don't get to pass Go and collect Infinite Enlightenment.
Tracy Engelbrecht
I believe most people are good, even deep down, even if you have to dig a little - although some people can tempt one to pick up a shovel and actually put that to the test.
Christina Engela
Evil's when you push your agenda over someone else's. When you assert your beliefs over somebody's contrary beliefs. That's evil.
David Kitson
Never stop dreaming, wake up and chase your dreams.
Gift Gugu Mona
I am not used to hating. Hate sits heavy on my heart. It reeks. I can smell it rotting my insides and I taste it on my tongue.
Kopano Matlwa
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
The Hammer was a hard man, a smart man too, and he took pride in always having a plan ‘b’. For those troubling occasions when plan ‘b’ didn’t work, he would strive to also have a plan ‘c’ in place. In short, he was the kind of man who always had something up his sleeve besides his funny bone. The pilot, his trusted second man gave him a worried look. “What do we do now?
Christina Engela
Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another’s sex life.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
One would think after all the disappointment life offers us unfortunate few we would give up the trifles connected with hope, feeling, belief and optimism in our fellow souls.
Daleen Van Tonder
Do your beliefs create your goals or are your beliefs a result of achieving your goals?
Julian Pencilliah
I love my family because they are always there for me even during my fragile moments.
Gugu Mona
People should avoid hatred at all costs, because not only does it affect the haters health; it also prevents them from enjoying the goodness of love.
Gugu Mona
No, Zahra, dear, no! Gentleness isn’t weakness.’ Her hand, suspended in midair, trembled with emptiness and fell to her side. ‘How easy it is to be bitter or angry; that’s when you’re at your weakest! But when you choose to be kind, to forget your hurt, that’s when you find within the greatest strength of all.’ She smiled, oh, a smile of such ancient wisdom, her face shone with love. She waited, but when I wouldn’t smile back, she walked past me.
Judy Croome
One bright sunny day at a successful Literary Agency…Literary Agent: “So, Tina – we asked you to try and write a children’s story…”Tina: “Uh-huh.
Christina Engela
Be the consequence of finding inspiration not rent-a-storage for one.
Unarine Ramaru
Compared with lesbians, gays seem to be more unapologetic about their sexual orientation. The former must not have balls.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We mine our greatest value through the process of proactive thinking
Julian Pencilliah
There’s something about her, I remember thinking, a little mysterious. I tried to absorb the feeling for as long as I could before I went back to work. I tried not to think about it. Feelings throw everything off.
Danila Botha
She was home, the passage walls, memorabilia of Ben's life, past and present, welcomed her like a doting grandmother.
Mala Naidoo
Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always prefer to learn from others.
Gugu Mona
The feminism of equality, of toughness, of anti-discrimination, has been overwhelmed by one of victimhood and demands for special treatment....At a certain point, when we demand an equal ratio of men to women in certain fields, what we’re criticizing is not “the system,” but the choices that women themselves are making.....let’s keep our eye on the question of equal opportunity and stop obsessing about equal outcomes, lest we find ourselves trying to cure society, not of sexism, but of free choice.
Elizabeth Wasserman
Humanity is when the society is able to care, protect and value one another.
Gift Gugu Mona
People who have practiced occult religions for many years are being told that they don't know the first thing about their own religion and its beliefs and practices - and that a bunch of zealots from another religion posing as 'experts' (in a religion they despise/ fear/ oppose and who peddle slander and misinformation about occult religions), are more credible than they are.Non Seqitur. This does not follow.
Christina Engela
We got to see a Corsair ship up close – all matt black, no markings, no lights – and practically invisible out here in the dark! What a sight to behold! Most people don’t get to see those bastards up close. That is, for very long! Anyways, the ship was just floating there, no sign of life. Our hails weren’t being answered, and so we assumed the ship was dead in space. Captain Mulligan, gods-rest-his-soul, told me to form a boarding party of security and medics from the sickbay and that we were going over there. We weren’t a military ship, and we’re not Star Marines, so we were lightly armed and quite nervous. I mean, this wasn’t just some of my security section being called out to break up a fight at one of the bars on the promenade, this was serious life-and-death shit! So I said ‘okay’, and told my assistant supervisor, Lisa Garfner, to get them all together. Seven of us shifted over to the other ship with the transmatter (you still use those things, I take it?) not knowing what to expect. It could’ve been anything… and it was. It was crazy.
Christina Engela
Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.
Alan Paton
Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
God has forgiven and still forgives us when we repent from our sins, an indication that we are not called to sin, but to live in accordance with His will.
Gugu Mona
When coming to making kids: Size doesn’t count, it’s sperm count that counts.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We are wired to be caring for the other and generous to one another. We shrivel when we are not able to interact. I mean that is part of the reason why solitary confinement is such a horrendous punishment. We depend on the other in order for us to be fully who we are. (...) The concept of Ubuntu says: A person is a person through other persons.
Desmond Tutu
Pray more often and read and obey The Holy Scriptures in The Holy Bible.
Errol Anthony Smythe
Those who object to human rights protection laws typically do so because they want to be above those laws.
Christina Engela
There are two bonds formed – belonging together and suffering together.Which bond will withstand the true test of Darkness?
Michelle Horst
I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one’s bones.
J.M. Coetzee
When something hurts them, they weep.By night, they rest, they sleep
Christina Engela
To a misogynist: To err is woman.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Praise is the most efficient tool to win many battles at once. It is through praise that the walls of Jericho collapsed, the same way Paul and Silas praised their way out of jail.
Gugu Mona
Real life starts when you are doing something you love out of passion.
Unarine Ramaru
When God created you, He already had a plan for your life. Before he brought you into this world, He had already put together a blue print for your life. Your responsibility is to figure out what that blue-print is and run with it.
D.S Mashego
You know you are wealthy when you lose count of the people whose lives you changed for the better.
Gugu Mona