"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual."

Reflection, Death, Life, Surprise, Inspirational

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"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual."

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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Reflection, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Reflection, Law, Disobedience, Destruction, Morality

"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Reflection, Yourself, Weight, Burden, Self-Worth

"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Reflection, Life, Situations, Questions

"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"What you are seeking is yourself."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The world is full of vanities."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Habit,

"Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life."

Life, Joy, Sleep

"To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion? There is nobody-here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone."

Solitude, Loneliness, Passion, Tradition, Feeling

"You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort."

Friendship, Friends, Order, Right, School

"For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"

Time, Body, Mind

"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia'. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."

Creativity, Inspirational, Art, Waiting

"The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness."

Nature, Sea, Night, Dawn, Peace

"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."

Truth, Fish, Man

"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."

Money, Nothing, Writing

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

History, Men, Women, Opposition