Mbundu Culture Quotes & Sayings

The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. — Michael J. Fox

Listen cousin, the way things are supposed to work out, one day the struggles of all you screwed up little underdogs will forge a permanent rainbow that'll encircle this entire earth, I should live so long. — John Nichols

In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form. — George Grey

Being a warrior doesn't mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live. — Richard Strozzi-Heckler

What is easy is seldom excellent. — Samuel Johnson

You never cared that I was your sister before."
"Didn't I?" His black eyes flicked up and down her. "Our father's dead," he said. "There are no other relatives. You and I, we are the last. The last of the Morgensterns. You are the only one left whose blood runs in my veins, too. You are my last chance. — Cassandra Clare

Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you'll be in the present moment. Then you'll begin to experience joy in life. — Brian Weiss

Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all? — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we have not had the chance to look at the nature of justice in terms of no-self. That kind of justice is based on the idea of self, but it may be very interesting to explore justice in terms of no-self. — Nhat Hanh

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,
videlicet, in a love-cause. — William Shakespeare

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt. — Dorothy Gilman

I tried not to seem like a kid who'd just been offered a chance to go up to the front of the plane and see the cockpit. Sure, I said. That sounds neat. — Atul Gawande

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain. — Christmas Humphreys

If you want to watch me shake like the owner of a
Chinese buffet when two six hundred pound men walk through the doors, by
all means, stick around. ~ Logan — Jennifer Turner