Gobodo Madikizela Quotes & Sayings

Running back was always my favorite position. — Barry Sanders

When Darkness Comes — Alexandra Ivy

Life is a funny thing. We claim it to be our own; but the truth is, it's not. It belongs to something much bigger. We, like everything else, are transient. This life is temporary and everything about us is temporary. What we call our life is nothing more than borrowed energy from something much bigger--nature, the universe, God--whatever floats your boat. And one day, when we pass, we will give that energy back to the world we borrowed it from in the first place. — Leanne Waters

You can't just walk away, Caleb! You are not in charge!' He glanced across his shoulder at her. 'Oh, I do believe I am,' he remarked. And gave her a wink before he stepped inside. — Lindsay J. Pryor

A genuine apology focuses on the feelings of the other rather than on how the one who is apologizing is going to benefit in the end. It seeks to acknowledge full responsibility for an act, and does not use self-serving language to justify the behavior of the person asking forgiveness. A sincere apology does not seek to erase what was done. No amount of words can undo past wrongs. Nothing can ever reverse injustices committed against others. But an apology pronounced in the context of horrible acts has the potential for transformation. It clears or 'settles' the air in order to begin reconstructing the broken connections between two human beings. — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time. — Cassandra Clare

Sunlight of love on your lips;
& the Nightingale has fallen into silence. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it. — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that. — Brian McKnight

But whatever the exact psychology of the process {receiving recognition or literary success}, the present has a way of contaminating the past. And the writing will change accordingly. Turmoil and dilemma once experienced with a certain desperation may be seen more complacently as the writer reflects that through expressing them he has realized his inevitable and well-deserved triumph. The lean years of patient toil when no one paid attention may even begin to seem preferable to the present. The very thing you created in the heat of fierce concentration has destroyed the circumstances that made it possible. The writer is devoured along with his books. — Tim Parks

The educational process must again provide the opportunity for students to make choices and live with the consequences of these choices. Teaching is not simply telling people what to believe and do. — Donovan L. Graham

If being an asshole was all it took to get yourself killed, you and I would have been dead long ago. — Linwood Barclay

I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable. — Harvey Pekar

An act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime. — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt. — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always changing. for any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. you can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count. what you have to decide is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, is this how you'd want to have spent it? — Sarah Dessen

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters. — Steven Berkoff