Quotes by South African Authors - Page 41

Forgiveness is the best way to disempower the enemy.
Gift Gugu Mona
Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Rejecting people for who and what they are will not make you a better, more 'righteous' or more 'moral' person - than the other person, or even in your own right - in fact, if that's why you're doing it, it is far more likely to do the opposite.
Christina Engela
In altered states of consciousness, the nervous system itself becomes a ‘sixth sense’ that produces a variety of images including entoptic phenomena.
James David Lewis-Williams
If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy for great talent.
Gugu Mona
Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is a young abused girl whose recovery is dependent on your willingness to honour your calling as a pastor, social worker, psychologist, etc.
D.S Mashego
Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with.
Irma Joubert
Denying the facts is what enables people to hate and to persecute marginalized and threatened minority groups. Labeling the advocacy, educational and informational initiatives of these persecuted minority groups dismissively as 'propaganda for the gay agenda' undermines, belittles and trivializes the cause of those whose right to exist is under threat.
Christina Engela
No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.
Damon Galgut
Be ashamed not of being single, or, unemployed. That comes standard.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Giving has no relation or companionship
Unarine Ramaru
Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What you allow inside of you will settle there unless you find an effective way to work it out.
Malebo Sephodi
San religion is built around belief in a tiered universe. As do other shamanistic peoples throughout the world, the San believe in a realm above and another below the surface of the world on which they live.
James David Lewis-Williams
Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere
Peter Abrahams
Hands burn for a stone, a bomb, to shiver down the glass. Nothing's changed.
Tatamkhulu Afrika
Inspiration does not linger in one place over time, therefore human effort shouldn't be scaled on earlier attempt.
Unarine Ramaru
You need to be able to think Independently.
David Sikhosana
Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been believes.
J.M. Coetzee
..we all have to do things in this life that we don't like..
Marlene Van Niekerk
Looking at what 'foreplay' is, 'sexual intercourse' is a game.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What good is praying in public if you as an individual do not follow The Teachings of GOD'S Prophets in The Holy Bible ? Repent !
Errol Anthony Smythe
Too often people mistake monsters for gods.
Monique Snyman
I am on the divorce detox diet. I only eat younger men
Erla-Mari Diedericks
We’re seastnan, we live to protect, sometimes we die and I can’t think of a better way to go than fighting for someone I love.
Caroline Greyling
We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Your mindset controls every result in your life... Mindset matters most if you are above the ground and breathing
Tony Dovale
It is no coincidence that Christian fundamentalist movements worldwide seek a return to Old Testament laws - because they fundamentally reject Christ as the New Covenant - which replaced all that.They are not Christians - they are Leviticans.
Christina Engela
You are strong, tempered like steel in the fire and by the blows of the hammer of life. Nothing will break you again, only make you stronger and more whole. Perfection is the pride of those who have not lived, who know not these things in their arrogance. They remain the same - raw and without form. The hammer never touches them, and they lie on the shelf, gathering dust, slowly tarnishing and fading and crumbling. the blows of the hammer in the fire refine us into bright shining glory for the roles we play in life - until we are one with the anvil, becoming immune to the hammer's little knocks, and smile at it.
Christina Engela
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.
Lauren Beukes
The portable animal statuettes were therefore far more than decorative trinkets: they were reified three-dimensional spirit animals with all their prophylactic and other powers.
James David Lewis-Williams
The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives fresh water, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the water out. It receives beautiful water from the rivers, and the water goes dank. I mean, it just goes bad. And that's why it is the Dead Sea. It receives and does not give. In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
Desmond Tutu
There are many different forms of family and there is in fact NO 'the' family.The basic building block of any close relationship - and thus any family - is LOVE.
Christina Engela
You won't lose anything admitting that you've failed or you are struggling just remember not to dwell on that reality.
Unarine Ramaru
For Love surely lies heartbroken at all the tears cried in its name, the curses flung at its efforts...there is nothing wrong with love; there is just something wrong with us.
Sinovuyo Nkonki
Until you eliminate your own fears, you will never know your capabilities.
Gugu Mona
Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I hate coming out of conversations without learning anything.
Unarine Ramaru
I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as far as I can see, our moral being is untouched. We do not feel tainted. We can do anything, it seems, and come away clean.We point to the Germans and Poles and Ukrainians who did and did not know of the atrocities around them. We like to think they were inwardly marked by the after-effects of that special form of ignorance. We like to think that in their nightmares the ones whose suffering they had refused to enter came back to haunt them. We like to think they woke up haggard in the mornings and died of gnawing cancers. But probably it was not so. The evidence points in the opposite direction: that we can do anything and get away with it; that there is no punishment.
J.M. Coetzee
I've pushed your love away and I've run from you, sometimes I've checked out, but this is the reason. I just couldn't understand what we have. I mean we have never met in real life, yet we've loved each other for over 3 years.
Chimnese Davids
Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you constantly allow negative statements into your life, you run the risk of adopting such negative statements as your convictions and principles. Generally, you will have a pessimistic outlook towards life.
D.S Mashego
A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The favour of God, forfeits the failure of men.
Gift Gugu Mona
Abiding fully means praying much.
Andrew Murray
Time is often wasted by those who don't understand that time is worth more than money because when lost, money can be regained but time cannot.
Gift Gugu Mona
Any marriage can last forever, as long as both partners remain committed to their vows.
Gift Gugu Mona
Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will?
Alan de Jager
A love triangle is a threesome delayed.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you hate others in the name of God, you should be looking within to see where it stopped being about God and where it started being about YOU.
Christina Engela
Getting money is easy but do you have the education that will help maintain it?
Unarine Ramaru
One asset every leader, shouldn't risk anything to lose at all cost, is team confidence.
Unarine Ramaru
Motherhood has taught me that love is the best gift you can ever give to your children.
Gift Gugu Mona