Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.