Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A blessing we do not understand, or are not ready for, can be a curse.

2. A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.

3. After some point, it becomes too late to be early.

4. Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.

5. Because they can be lost, things such as success and fame—unlike things such as intelligence and wisdom—are accompanied by anxiety.

6. Capitalism is disgusted by those whose happiness is not a result of buying … or selling.

7. Education is what they equip you with; just in case your dream doesn't workout.

8. Even the truth is just a mere thought.

9. Failing can ultimately be way more rewarding than succeeding.

10. Getting older is not an intellectually demanding process.

11. Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.

12. Happiness that was pursued comes greatly diluted by the pursuit.

13. He who has more money or possessions than you is not necessarily happier than you, happy more often than you, or happy like you.

14. Hedonism is based on the illusion that what we enjoy inevitably leaves us in joy.

15. How the journey started is not necessarily a reflection of how it will end.

16. How you are doing is often shaped by who you are doing.

17. In some cases, inheritance is nothing but an act of paying one’s dues with a credit card. F for Philosopher: A Collection of Funny Yet Profound Aphorisms

18. In some people, aloneness eventually produces loneliness; but, in some people, it automatically produces great happiness.

19. Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.

20. It is a sign of failure to have achieved spiritual awakening, to seek happiness in material success.

21. It is sometimes foolish to assume that someone is wise, or vice versa.

22. Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.

23. Making popcorn is a reminder of the very valuable fact that very similar people who are given the very same opportunity in the very same environment at the very same time will not succeed or mature at the very same time, if they will manage to succeed or mature.

24. Most people want more than they have without having made the most of what they have.

25. Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

26. Most sane people feel happy way less often than they act happy.

27. Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.

28. Our education system would be betraying its master, capitalism, if it taught us to be content with what we have. Or if it told us about the fruits of practicing minimalism.

29. Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.

30. Our problems stop existing whenever we stop thinking.