Maxim Quotes

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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Always ask yourself:" What will happen if I say nothing?”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: adage, always, aphorism, ask, calm, circumstance, everything, flow, forgive, give-in, happen, harmony, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kind, kindness, kojouri, let-go, maxim, mind, mindful, mindfulness, moment, nothing, peace, present, quote, rights, say, serene, serenity, silence, silent, simple-quotes, speak, surrender, talk, think, think-before-you-act, thought, tranquility, truth, unity, zen

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“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, belief, beliefs, believe, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, humble, humility, humor, humour, importance, important, insightful, life, life-goes-on, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, modest, modesty, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, really, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerely, thought-provoking, thoughtful, truly

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“What you choose also chooses you.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: accept, adage, aphorism, axiom, choice, choose, choosing, chose, crave, decide, decision, desire, harmony, interesting, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, maxim, mysterious-ways, mystery, option, prefer, proverb, quote, saying, seek, select, selection, simple-quote, truth, unknown, want, you

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“The maxim," Nothing prevails but perfection, "may be spelled PARALYSIS.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: maxim, perfection

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“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.”
― Adam Smith

tags: mankind, masters, maxim

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“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

tags: anger, bitter, bitterness, bitterness-quotes, courage, disturbance, disturbing, enlightenment, fear, maxim, mind, pain, power, strong, truth, truth-of-life, weakness-and-strength

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“Kings need not raise their voices to be heard.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

tags: authority, king, kings, maxim

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“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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“In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches

— do the right thing, for the right reason

— no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.”
― Josh Rushing, Mission Al-Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World

tags: ethics, marine-corps, marines, maxim, right-and-wrong, usmc

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“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days… or hours.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Some people will hate you for not loving them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

tags: coelho, guidance, knowledge, maxim, sea, trust, truth, wisdom

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“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: abraham-lincoln, decree, lincoln, maxim, philosophy, prayer, superstition

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“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, consistency, consistent, crazy, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, fake, gnome, gnomes, happiness, happy, humor, humour, immortality, insane, insanity, insightful, mad, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortality, pretend, pretense, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, sad, sane, sanity, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerely, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unhappiness, unhappy

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“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, advice, advices, advisor, advisors, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, bank, bank-statement, bank-statements, banks, bombast, bombastic, clothes, clothes-make-the-man, clothes-maketh-the-man, clothing, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, financial-advice, financial-advices, financial-advisor, financial-advisors, financial-freedom, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, impress, impressed, impression, income, insightful, invest, investment, investments, jargon, job, job-title, job-titles, jobs, language, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, money, passive, passive-income, philosopher, policies, policy, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, rich, riches, salaries, salary, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, share, shareholder, shareholders, shareholding, shares, south-africa, south-african, suit, suits, tailor, tailor-made, tailored-suit, tailored-suits, tailors, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tuxedo, wage, wages, wealth, wealthy

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“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.”
― Jonathan D. Spence, Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi

tags: joy, maxim

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