Quotes by South African Authors - Page 46

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.
J.M. Coetzee
I still believe in miracles, because being alive is a miracle on its own.
Gift Gugu Mona
Anything you want can come true if you cast it in the form of a "golden goal" and apply EFT-Matrix Reimprinting to get clear and activate it "in the matrix".
Caryl Westmore
The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents’ wedding.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu
Mercy is to care, and care very deeply about one another. It is to care to the point where we are prepared to be involved with the sufferings and adversities of others. It implies that I am prepared to put myself in the other person's place. It means that I shall try to really understand why they behave as they do, even though it injures me. It is a willingness to walk a mile in the other man's moccasins before I criticize his conduct. It is the extension of good will, help, forgiveness, compassion and kindness to one who may not seem to deserve it.
W. Phillip Keller
When the struggle is over, those that have distance themselves from you will line-up to re-introduce themselves!
Nicky Verd
Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”—Zarost
Greg Hamerton
A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Nelson Mandela
Around 30,000 years ago, in the Aurignacian, at the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic, someone or some group in the Eyzies region invented drawing, the representation in two dimensions on the flat of the stone of what appeared in the environment in three dimensions.
James David Lewis-Williams
Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch.
Lauren Beukes
Don't fight the system, mock the system
Trevor Noah
There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Planting and harvest don't happen in the same season
Nicky Verd
A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
Bryce Courtenay
The true wealth of a man is not what's in his pocket, but what's in his heart.
Unarine Ramaru
When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
Andrew Murray
Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In God's strength I could battle the giants. Alone, I was just a grasshopper.S
Shirley Corder
One of the ways to get the information or knowledge to is by reading!
Michael Mnyameni
Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
One day you’re going to get arrested, and when you do, don’t call me. I’ll tell the police to lock you up just to teach you a lesson.” Because there were some black parents who’d actually do that, not pay their kid’s bail, not hire their kid a lawyer—the ultimate tough love. But it doesn’t always work, because you’re giving the kid tough love when maybe he just needs love. You’re trying to teach him a lesson, and now that lesson is the rest of his life.
Trevor Noah
I pen you words from my heartneither paper nor pen would doas I lay them out in flowery fontswhat more could you ask foras I am writing in your heartthe love that I want to endureI am no Keats nor am I anyone but mea poetess longing for your touchget lost with me in my wordsas I serenade you with a forever quill.
Chimnese Davids
When you allow God to change your heart, He will also change your story.
Gugu Mona
You make my heart shake bend and break
Troye Sivan
I trusted you with my scarsBut now I'm bleedingSaid I was your moon and you were the starsYou're so deceivingI trusted you with my scarsBut now I'm bleedingThe wound is deep Blood is seeping
Nomzamo Nhlumayo