Uzi maalumu kuwaenzi Waandishi wakongwe kwa njia ya kuweka misemo au nukuu maarufu kupitia vitabu vyao

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become? ~Jonathan Safran Foer

There are three classes of men: lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. ~Plato

ngaboru said:

Mabala the farmer...by Chinua Achebe

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Duh!

My mistake in marriage was disconnecting our communication. I was silent on him instead of enhancing communication to look for solutions. I was caught up in pride and refused to discuss anything. I didn’t come out as a friend. ~Joyce Gituro

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free. ~Ajahn Chah

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last. ~Marcus Aurelius

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own fields, they grow less wise even in their own field. ~Isaac Asimov

-True wisdom is achieved by embracing an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge. Specialization risks fragmenting our understanding of the world.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. ~Niels Bohr

There is a false saying: How can someone who can't save himself save others? Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same? ~Friedrich Nietzsche

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ~George Bernard Shaw

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ~Buckminster Fuller

-change by replacement, not by mere destruction

Everything hangs on one's thinking. A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is. ~Seneca

You have survived what has broken many, and yet you are still standing. You are here for a reason - keep going, this is only a chapter - your story isn't over yet. ~Meg Flanders

The mind's true power lies not in what it receives, but in what it refuses to entertain. ~Epictetus

-It's both, actually; what one receives replaces what they have rejected.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question. ~Harun Yahya

The hardest thing in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to forget the old ones. ~Keynes

-The unconscious rules our lives, and the unconscious is formed by our beliefs, many of which are false even if we call them true. Having an attitude of openness above all puts us in better conditions to continue growing.

Be careful what you learn because you cannot forget it. ~Goethe

-Being open to unlearning is absolutely essential for true learning to take place. Often, what we think we know is what really prevents us from learning.

Don't fear criticism; fear the regret of abandoning your intellect for the approval of others.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, neither persons nor property will be safe. ~Frederick Douglass

I used to think that the moments of greatest despair were those in which one feels most alone. But now I realize that the worst moments are those in which one feels the weight of everyone's expectations and yet knows that one can never fulfill them. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky