26 quotes
"Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love
"Addiction denied is recovery delayed."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Awareness
"Most people want beautiful things merely to impress others."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Awareness
"Expectation is the only seed of disappointment."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Awareness
"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Awareness
""Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.""
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Balance
"He that does good to another does good mainly, or even only, for himself."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Compassion
"Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs; some wear one to conceal their age."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Self-awareness
"How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?"
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Self-awareness
"Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Happiness
"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
Relationships
"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Courage
"When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Adversity
"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
Adversity
"The main reason why great leaders are rare is because books on leadership far outsell those on followership."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Teamwork
"Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Strength
"Relaxing brings weakness, when done by a muscle; but brings strength, when done by a person."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Strength
"When you’re unemployed, weekends are seven days long."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Reflection
"Diligence wins more often than luck or genius."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Determination
"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
Philosophy
"You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Philosophy
"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
Philosophy
"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
Philosophy
"Some people are kept righteous by their not being courageous."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Bravery
"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
Bravery
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Well-being