Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You don’t know what you don’t have until it comes.

Unhappiness is a contagious disease caused by a chronic deficiency of gratitude.

Our inability to imagine the length of the rest of existence magnifies our problems.

At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world.

Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.

Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.

Even the worst that has ever happened to you could have been worse.

All deaf people would kill for an opportunity to spend the entire day listening to sober adults whine.

We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.

The truly grateful are also grateful for being grateful.

Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.

The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have.

You cannot, at the very same time, be grateful and unhappy, or ungrateful and happy.

Gratitude tends to attract the things for which we are grateful in advance.

Some people are happy that they have each lost one instead of both legs, whereas some are unhappy because they have each lost a toenail.

The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.

Some people would kill for the results or situations because of which some people have killed themselves.

It is impossible to count your blessings while you are counting the things with which you need or want to be blessed.

Gratitude is often caused not by gain but by loss.

We cannot have, but can lose, everything.

There are often many people dying from thirst while many people are running for dear life away from the rain.

Because our minds are problem solving machines, we are inclined to focus on the undesirable, usually at the expense of the desirable.

To some of us, these are the good old days in the making.

We are almost always way more grateful to be alive, when we are laughing, than we occasionally are, when we are praying.

You need to be blessed with things such as sanity to realize that you have been cursed with things such as poverty and disability.

Human beings are makers, usually of a mountain out of a molehill.

The sun shines, not out of affection, but out of compulsion.

It is comforting, after finding out that your loved one has just drowned, to estimate the number of times their life was saved by water.

Having the least usually forces us to make the most of what we have.

Mindfulness is by far the most supreme expression of gratefulness for being alive.

Some people do not mind losing the person or thing that some people would kill to have.

Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.

Nobody is stopping you from using things such as your ability to read or hear as your definition of success or wealth.

Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.

Dear God. Thank you for another day, my health, and the internet.

To complain about life is to complain about being alive.

We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.

We are often blind to the fact that our situation is not as bad as we think, until it gets worse.

Most of us would eventually lose count if we were to literally count our blessings.

It is impossible to lose everything and still be alive.

All too often, food is given to a poor person only because the giver is too lazy to go to the dustbin, or to look for one.

It takes selfishness to do something intentionally.

Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.

Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.

Oftentimes someone leaves their partner who is comparable to the sun for someone else who is comparable to a spark.

12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.

When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.

When coming to sex first served, first come.

A love triangle is a threesome delayed.

When it comes to sex some men treat women as objects; some women treat objects as men.

There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.

We sometimes rob someone of the opportunity to offer us something by asking them for that thing.

A family member is initially loved out of expectation and is eventually loved out of habit.

A promotion usually increases the amount of money we can spend on our loved ones, but decreases the amount of time we can spend with our loved ones.

Some of our prayers for some people clash with their prayers for themselves.

Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.

Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

Impatience makes even the strong weak.

Our denial of our weakness is as profitable to our opponents as our unawareness of our strength.

Our weakness is our opponent’s strength.

Every now and then, someone blames their not being physically strong for their not being able to think of a solution.

He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.

Most pessimists are blinded by darkness.

Expecting defeat more than halves the potency of our effort, and more than quadruples that of our opponent’s effort.

An untamed mind is usually engaged in the pursuit of unhappiness.

Some people usually make lemons, when life gives them lemonade.

Worrying requires way more energy than hoping, which—unlike worrying—is energizing.

A positive attitude is often way more important than education, money, and experience.

Expectation is a very powerful creative force.

The problem with preparing for the worst is that that has the power to attract the worst.

How we look at life and how we feel shape each other.

Life has always been and will always be beautiful, regardless of how some or even all people have looked, are looking, or will look at it.

Depression is usually the result of focusing on a negative thought or situation way more often and for way longer than usual.

The only thing I’m optimistic about is the future of pessimism.

Life is millions of billions of trillions of transformations of something into some things, or another thing; never into nothing.

Like alcohol, desperation can make a coward seem courageous.

The simplest way to make a coward courageous is to convince them that you admire their courage.

Expecting difficulties is wise, if that usually gives you the strength to continue, and foolish, if that usually takes away the courage to begin.

Some people are such cowards that they are terrified of being brave.

Intelligence is suffocated by things such as cowardice and diffidence.

It takes, not cowardice, but courage to kill yourself.

Some people are kept righteous by their not being courageous.

It is rare for someone who is older to be bolder.

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

I do not mind someone talking to me, as long as they do not mind me not listening or talking to them.

We are all talented at coming up with plausible excuses.

We ought to relentlessly ignore excuses, especially those we are told by ourselves.

You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.

You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.

Education is what they equip you with; just in case your dream doesn't workout.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.

Getting older is not an intellectually demanding process.

Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.

A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.

Most sane people feel happy way less often than they act happy.

To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.

The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.

Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.

We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.

Some people will hate you for not loving them.

Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

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.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

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.

Some adults usually sleep like a baby, but only literally.

Not being able to sleep is a nightmare.

A night full of nightmares is way better than a sleepless one.

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.