Quotes of Desmond Tutu

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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

- Desmond Tutu

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“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

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

- Bzam

“ Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an everfixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." (Sonnet 116) ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes. ”

- Paulo Coelho

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ Love all, trust a few. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ With love comes the risk of losing it. With love comes the risk of getting burnt with it. When love burns, it consumes even the soul. ”

- Jyoti Arora

“ FORGET SWAG, I'VE GOT SHAKARA', ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Let me take you from Miss to Mrs ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ If you sow kindness, you will reap love. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Your love needs no explanation, and their sin does not deserve your revenge. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi