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Quotes by Cameroonian Authors
"In your selflessness pursuit of things higher than yourself, you appear selfish or inconsiderate to those who truly love you and who have cared deeply about you from the first day you came into their lives."
"Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness."
"There are people who bring joy to our lives, but who fail to make us happy. They are the people for the moment. Never rely on their love because it is not sustainable. Their love is alike a comet that illuminates the sky, but then fades away because it lacks the sustainable energy of the sun."
"Grief, my friend, forces us to search our souls and find answers to issues that constrain us from becoming better human beings."
"You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering."
"Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life."
"No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence..."
"Love has no color, love has no language and love has no religion."
"The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns."
"Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about."
"Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves."
"The truest feeling of happiness is the security that comes with being loved."
"We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth."
"Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster."
"A man can't talk of true happiness if he has never known true love-the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted."
"A good relationship with our children is the ultimate comfort we have while dying."
"Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them."
"Unsettling emotions are capable of messing up the most beautiful minds in this world."
"When we tend to be too hard on those we love, we erode the softness of our souls in the process, taking out the humanity within us that is the nucleus of our goodness, even if our actions are for their own sake."
"Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human."
"Obsessive love wears down both its target and the obsessor."
"True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success."
"Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you."
"The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humanism."
"It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary."
"Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world."
"Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have."
"Why do we complicate life, when it was meant to be very simple?"
"Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on."
"A true businessperson should also be a true humanist who understands that he stands to gain the most in a world that is stable for those he deals with, even if they do not fare as well as he does."
"When faced with difficulties, a humble, understanding, appreciative and selfless person finds it easy to win a friend. On the other hand, a temperamental, egoistic, condensing, self-absorbed, self-conceited and narrow-minded person who lacks the basic sense of humility easily loses friends when in distress."
"Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue."
"Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him."
"Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole."
"Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process."
"Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows."
"Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts."
"True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress."
"Men have the blood of their fathers and the passions of their mothers, in the same sense that women have the blood of their mothers and the passions of their fathers. We often find ourselves trapped in life when we fail to balance the two. The most unusual of men are those who are haunted by the warped blood of their fathers and the untamed passions of their mothers. They become either the legends of the legends that mankind remembers for generations or they end up as the fools of their time."
"Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others."
"Home is supposed to be a place of security, the last resort of refuge."
"The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul."
"We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre."
"The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes."
"It is not something we often find out, but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary."
"There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course."
"Avoid people who hurt from an impulse. I mean people who have this tendency to relish their capacity to hurt the good souls of this world, and who after hurting, wake up the next day without a trace of despondent brooding, and then move on with life never thinking that they should show some remorse or try to repent."
"There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds."
"Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only from their understanding of the depth of the force of kindness, but also from their conviction that kindness should not be taken for granted."
"Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny."
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