Xolani Mdluli Quotes & Sayings

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer. — Joe Wright

You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept. — Anne Lamott

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone ...
But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on — John Mayer

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past. - Corliss Lamont, humanist philosopher — Dale McGowan

Back in the sitting room, Wylan was lighting the lamps. "Are you hungry?"
"Famished," said Jesper. "But Da's asleep. I'm not sure we're allowed to ring for food." He cocked his head to one side, peering at Wylan. "Did you have her make you better-looking?"
Wylan pinked. "Maybe you forgot how handsome I am."
Jesper raised a brow.
"Okay, maybe a little. — Leigh Bardugo

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers. — Joseph Fiennes

Grandpa, that's something I never am." I asked him, "What's that?" And he said, "Lonesome in my spirits." Eli to Eben — Mary Ann Shaffer

To desire to change one's past means there is a desire to change oneself.
To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. — Lorii Myers

Robots get to see the worst of the human condition on a daily basis. Good thing they don't have feelings. — Martin McConnell

My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive. — Bill Gates

Launching more drone strikes than Bush ever did and compiling a secret "kill list," President Obama's administration took the view that al-Qaeda was like an organized crime gang - disrupt the hierarchy, destroy the gang. Theirs was a concerted and dogmatic attempt at pretending that al-Qaeda was nothing but a fringe criminal group, and not a concrete realization of an ideological phenomenon with grassroots sympathy. They took this view in part because of how successful Islamist "fellow-traveler" lobbies had been in influencing Obama's campaign after the mistakes of the Bush years. For Islamists and their allies, the problem was "al-Qaeda inspired extremism," and not the extremism that had inspired al-Qaeda. — Sam Harris

Knowing what's right isn't as important as doing what's right. — Frank Sonnenberg

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. — Henry A. Kissinger