Mpungu Vlei Quotes & Sayings

I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again. And all my efforts were doomed, because already drinking hadn't made me feel good in years. — Heather King

I have no ambition to play the part of a mother, and why should I interfere with her illusions? I find it hard enough to keep my own. — Oscar Wilde

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. — Dale Carnegie

I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old. — Matt Smith

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive. — Samuel Johnson

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage. — Ellen Glasgow

Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point. — Jasper Fforde

She loves Vincent body and soul. He is her true love. She will never feel for me what she does for him. But I will never stop loving her. And I have to learn to live with that. — Amy Plum

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning. — D.H. Lawrence

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing. — Albert Einstein

Study your prey, learn her habits, accustom her to your presence by seeming harmless and kind. And then, when she is tame and off-guard, you pounce! — Mary Hoffman

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior. — Alan W. Watts

Kindness is the best seed to plant if you want to grow love. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it. — Alex Breckenridge