All Quotes By Tag: Maxim

“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
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“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.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
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“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
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“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
Tag: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, attitude, axiom, axioms, bitch, bitches, childfree, childless, deep, dictum, dictums, disability, disabled, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, philosopher, please, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish-selfishness, society, south-africa, south-african, subhuman, thought-provoking, thoughtful, upset, upsetting,

“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
Tag: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, atheism, atheist, atheists, axiom, axioms, believer, believers, bible, book, books, chicken, chickens, christian, christianity, christians, crocodile, crocodiles, dead, death, deep, devour, dictum, dictums, eat, epigram, epigrams, fertile, fertility, freeze, funny, garden, gardens, gnome, gnomes, god, grill, grilled, heaven, hell, humor, humorous, humour, immortal, immortality, insightful, lamb, lambs, life, lion, lions, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortal, mortality, nonbeliever, nonbelievers, parrot, parrots, philosopher, prey, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, religion, religious, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, territory, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tiger, tigers,

“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
Tag: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, caregiver, caregivers, child, childfree, childhood, childless, children, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, father, fatherhood, fathers, foster-parent, foster-parents, funny, gnome, gnomes, hope, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mother, motherhood, mothers, old-age-home, old-age-homes, parent, parenthood, parents, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, second-childhood, selfish-selfishness, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful,

“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”

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“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”

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Tag: adage, adages, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, belief, beliefs, believe, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, humble, humility, humor, humour, importance, important, insightful, life, life-goes-on, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, modest, modesty, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, really, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerely, thought-provoking, thoughtful, truly,

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Tag: act, acting, actor, actors, adage, adages, animal, animals, aphorism, aphorisms, audacity, axiom, axioms, balls, be-yourself, boldness, brave, bravery, cojones, conform, conforming, conformity, courage, courageous, courageousness, daring, dead, death, deep, dictum, dictums, die, epigram, epigrams, facade, facades, fear, fearful, fearlessness, fit-in, fitting-in, fruit, fruits, gallantry, gnome, gnomes, grit, guts, hardihood, heroism, herself, himself, human, human-being, human-beings, humans, humor, humour, insightful, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inspired, intrepidity, kill, killed, lemon, lemons, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, motivated, motivational, motive, moxie, murder, murdered, nerve, nonconformity, oneself, orange, people, peoples, person, persons, plant, plants, pluck, pluckiness, pretend, pretender, pretenders, pretending, produce, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, self, spunk, standing-out, standout, themselves, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tree, trees, true-grit, valour, words-to-live-by, yourself,

“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”

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Tag: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, consistency, consistent, crazy, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, fake, gnome, gnomes, happiness, happy, humor, humour, immortality, insane, insanity, insightful, mad, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortality, pretend, pretense, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, sad, sane, sanity, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerely, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unhappiness, unhappy,

“What you choose also chooses you.”

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Tag: accept, adage, aphorism, axiom, choice, choose, choosing, chose, crave, decide, decision, desire, harmony, interesting, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, maxim, mysterious-ways, mystery, option, prefer, proverb, quote, saying, seek, select, selection, simple-quote, truth, unknown, want, you,

“Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.”

Card image cap - Michael Bassey Johnson,
Tag: anger, bitter, bitterness, bitterness-quotes, courage, disturbance, disturbing, enlightenment, fear, maxim, mind, pain, power, strong, truth, truth-of-life, weakness-and-strength,