Zakayo Magara Quotes & Sayings

Wild Things in Captivity

Wild things in captivity
while they keep their own wild purity
won't breed, they mope, they die.

All men are in captivity,
active with captive activity,
and the best won't breed, though they don't know why.

The great cage of our domesticity
kills sex in a man, the simplicity
of desire is distorted and twisted awry.

And so, with bitter perversity,
gritting against the great adversity,
they young ones copulate, hate it, and want to cry.

Sex is a state of grace.
In a cage it can't take place.
Break the cage then, start in and try. — D.H. Lawrence

You can only be afraid of what you think you know. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. — Joseph Campbell

When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues. — Henry Ward Beecher

Testing time is the time for an increase in praise. — Sunday Adelaja

One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences — Veronica Roth

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration. — Marvin Ammori

When you say you fear death you are really saying that you fear you have not lived your true life. — Steve Chandler

There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I did some plays in high school which I had a good time doing. — Michael Riedel

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees. I don't know if you remember the Bee Gees. My mom took me. I was little. But my mom was a big disco fan, and - my mom took me to the Bee Gees. Looking back now, it's pretty embarrassing if your first concert was with your mom. — Rob Huebel

It's like the Twilight Zone," murmured Alex, her eyes big. "Watching them work together on anything, even when it's just eggs and bacon. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Epictetus echoes this advice: We should keep in mind that "all things everywhere are perishable. — William B. Irvine

Out, out, into the night,
The belfry bells are ours by right! — E. Nesbit

Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters, bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction, like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death. — Herman Melville