Quotes by South African Authors - Page 34

Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?
Christina Engela
Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.
Damon Galgut
Don't be afraid," Elisha answered, "We have more on our side than they have on theirs." (2 Kings 6:15 GNT)
Shirley Corder
Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Great leaders think beyond yesterday, deal with the issues of today and focus on addressing the problems of tomorrow.
Gift Gugu Mona
Don't be a bully, don't be meanBe a hero, don't be afraid to be seen.
Christina Engela
Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important element in his spirituality: the ability to let go. In the Christian tradition this has been spoken of as “purity of heart” or as the process of becoming “poor in spirit.
Albert Nolan
When people reject you, don't be discouraged, because you can still fulfill your God given purpose without them. Remember that your destiny is not tied to any human being, but designed specially for you, by your Creator.
Gift Gugu Mona
How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY?
Christina Engela
GOD Forgave you and GOD forgave me so you and I need to always forgive those who offend us and curse us and speak and write lies about us.
Errol Anthony Smythe
Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally ‘lost the plot’. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.
Anthon St. Maarten
But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.
Dalene Matthee
Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.
Andrew Murray
A real woman's blood pressure will go up when another man touch her, in anger of me losing my dignity and not because she likes it.
Unarine Ramaru
I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I'm hurting. But isn't that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?
Tarryn Fisher
If you don't get any motivation from your team, there is nothing wrong with those you lead but your form of leadership.
Unarine Ramaru
The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.
Andrew Murray
To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Amari swung around in her seat to look back and there was indeed a small girl sitting on the boundary wall. She didn’t seem to be looking at the car that had just passed but up ahead. Amari turned around to see what she was looking at and she saw it, up ahead, the farm house that she could only assume was their new home.
Sian B. Claven
To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.
Elon Musk
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!
Andrew Murray
Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.
Anthon St. Maarten
The cerebral cortex, the outer ‘skin’ of the brain, contains as many as ten billion neurons. This complexity is daunting. Yet it is out of complex interactions between the billions of neurons that consciousness arises.
James David Lewis-Williams
Success shouldn't be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content.
Unarine Ramaru
Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never waste time holding grudges for people who have wronged you.Time waits for no one.Apologise when you are wrong,Express your love when you should,Forgive the ones who wronged you,And appreciate the one who makes efforts to see you smile.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
Alan Paton
In southern Africa, a great many figures are ithyphallic. This feature has generally – and rather vaguely – been taken to refer to ‘masculinity’, but the painted contexts of the figures seems to confirm that, as in North America, sexual arousal was a metaphor for altered states of consciousness.
James David Lewis-Williams
Lifeboats are decked out on the sides of a ship waiting for when disaster strikes, faith on the other hand is a part of you for whenever.
Unarine Ramaru
There are some lessons you can never find in a classroom, hence you need to learn from every person and every situation that you encounter.
Gift Gugu Mona
An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The media made the masses to find not-so-skinny women appear not-so-beautiful … in the eyes of the remote holder.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Lisa, love is magical,” Rema said. “Scientists give such simplified explanations for it, and they’re wrong, because love isn’t something that happens in your brain. Love happens in your soul.
Monique Snyman
We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Isn't it odd that some groups view being legally equal to other groups as 'oppression'?
Christina Engela
I see the process of reaching out, sharing yourself, communicating, establishing contact between two people as similar to, if not the same as, the interaction between two people entering a relationship in literature – that is, as reader and writer. Both seem to have the same astounding possibilities and the same terrible pitfalls. But if you battle through and souls touch, magic happens. Love. We feel more human, more alive, more understood, naked and yet protected from the cold of isolation and indifference. Our loneliness is, temporarily, held at bay.
Karina Szczurek
If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills.
Christina Engela
The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.
Lawrence Anthony
I love silent conversations accompanied by a soft caress on my skin and my head on your chest listening to your heart desires.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother. How we treat her will affect how she feels about herself as a mother and as a parent.Be gentle. Be kind. Listen.
Ruth Ehrhardt
Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.
Andrew Murray
Most people dont understand the process. They get frustrated by it. Dont Be. Focus
David Sikhosana
Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy of great talent.
Gift Gugu Mona
That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness.” (Your smile, p. 56)
Chimnese Davids
If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know there is many a bird will not break its wings against the bars, but would fly if the doors were open?
Olive Schreiner
Limitations and Disbelief are the Worst Rules That Create The Prison of The Mind. Be Limitless
David Sikhosana
Until Africa changes it's Mindset - It will forever be a "basket case" looking for international support, funding and charity.We need to Rethink Innovation
Tony Dovale
The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering but only prolongs life that treatment should be stopped.
Christian Barnard
South African history did not start in 1652.
Nick Wood
Nobody can take your faith away form you. Faith is something you have to lose for yourself.
Christina Engela
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up
Nelson Mandela