All Quotes By Tag: Life-lessons

“First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered… . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don’t follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.”

“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”

“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”

“I don’t think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”

“You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.”

“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened.”

“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.”

“If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.”

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough.”

“Money does not dictate your lifestyle, it’s what you do to get it and how you manage your finances that determines your lifestyle.”

“Great victories and mountain experiences are invariably followed by vulnerabilities and emotional valley experiences. Know that and get prepared physically, mentally and emotionally.”

“Divine providence for next dimension is a natural as rest, food and water are to our natural bodies. Rest, Arise and Eat for the challenges ahead of you are too great for you.”

“Be nice to people on the way up. Not because you might meet them on the way back down, but.. because what’s the point in going through life being a c**t to everyone”

“I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need to succeed in life is already present inside us. We just have to find the few.”