Swahili Mafumbo Quotes & Sayings

The right thing to do is so easy to see when you're seventeen years old and don't have to make any big decisions. When you know that no matter what you do, someone will take care of you and fix everything. But when you're grown up, the world is not that black and white, and the right thing doesn't a tidy little arrow pointing to it. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Our civilization overflows with charity - which is simply willingness to hand back to labor as generous gracious alms a small part of the loot from the just wages of labor. But of real help - just wages for honest labor - there is little, for real help would disarrange the system, would abolish the upper classes. She — David Graham Phillips

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises. — Steven Erikson

Have faith in the truth. Faith can move mountains. — Walter E. Jacobson

The challenge isn't to find better tools to lead a more productive life, it's learning to be mindful of the tools that have already taken root. Mindfulness while using technology is important, and therefore the future belongs to those who can tame their distractions. — Paul Jun

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. — John Jay Chapman

Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere. — Emma Roberts

I'm done with men ... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage. — Halle Berry

When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights. — Kelly Hu

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally. — Andrew Carnegie

Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences - making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings, or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality. We've all heard the phrase that "the truth will set you free." And it will. The truth allows us to be free to deal with the way things are, not the way we imagine them to be or hope them to be or might manipulate them to be with our lies. The truth also frees up our energy. It takes energy to withhold the truth, keep a secret, or keep up an act. — Jack Canfield

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven. — Matthew Simpson

I learned two very strong lessons from them: the grass isn't always greener elsewhere, and true love is worth fighting for. — Bear Grylls

God Himself even "forgets" the wickedness committed by those whom He has forgiven. That's why it is never too late to clean up your life. — James C. Dobson

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility. — Bernard Of Clairvaux