Cute Afrikaans Quotes & Sayings

The aim of our orator, then, when speaking of things that are just and holy and good--and he should not speak of anything else--the aim, as I say, that he pursues to the best of his ability when he speaks of these things is to be listened to with understanding, with pleasure, and with obedience. He should be in no doubt that any ability he has and however much he has derives more from his devotion to prayer than his dedication to oratory; and so, by praying for himself and for those he is about to address, he must become a man of prayer before becoming a man of words. — Augustine Of Hippo

But i'm old now, no longer fit for the fray, i'm even incapable of hating. I only feel sick at heart, irritable and exasperated. At night my head seems to be on fire with so many thoughts crowding in and i can't get any sleep ... Oh, if only i were young again! — Anton Chekhov

the lack of money is the ruler of purpose where mediocrity is the king of the mind — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society. — Alan Cohen

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly. — Franz Kafka

Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions. — Laozi

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Rumi

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything. — Brit Marling

If from the beginning you always believed that a ticket was only one-way, then you wouldn't have to try so vainly to cling to the sand like an oyster to a rock. — Kobo Abe

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. — Abraham Lincoln