Quotes of Miriam Makeba

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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

- Miriam Makeba

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“ Those who ignore the rise of evil and depravity in a democracy, grant tacit license of acceptance and draw harm upon the vulnerable. When someone has altered our course without consent, we must engage to restore our path. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ I’ll hold you in my heart, till I can hold you in my arms. ”

- Unknown

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ Love is like a gold mine, The deeper you dig in your heart, the more love you receive. ”

- Bzam

“ Family where life begins & love never ends. ”

- Unknown

“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ”

- Unknown

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ As powerful as your genetic combination is in determining the outcome of your life, your decisions are more powerful. You will ultimately look like your decisions. ”

- Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe. ”

- Patricia Lynn

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ Never worry a bit in Life. Always be full of merriment. ”

- sharda sriram

“ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

- Mark Twain