Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “The invention of the light bulb has greatly reduced the number of times we look at, and therefore the number of times we think about, the moon and the stars.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

352. “You can be, not too old, but too big for some clothes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

353. “People and things cannot really make us happy or unhappy. They can merely make us decide to be happy or unhappy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

354. “Happiness that was pursued comes greatly diluted by the pursuit.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

355. “Even a book that is made up of only untruths can greatly improve us intellectually.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

356. “Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

357. “Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

358. “School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

359. “Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

360. “The three most common killers of friendships are betrayal, distance, and growth.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

361. “All too often someone spoils my enjoyment of their company by talking to me.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

362. “Selfies often deceive us into believing that some people love themselves, or the way they look.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

363. “Some people are extroverts only when they are drunk.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

364. “Even idiots can reach old age.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

365. “Some car accidents are caused by the ignorance or disbelief of the fact that a driver’s eyes and mind can be thousands of kilometres apart.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

366. “Sanity is a never-ending tug of war between oneself, pulling one’s attention towards happiness, and one’s mind, pulling it towards unhappiness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

367. “We are all too often robbed of an opportunity to squeeze joy out of life by the result of our desire to create or perpetuate the impression that we are not stupid, childish, or crazy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

368. “All too often, a wise or free person is ridiculed, because of ignorance, by fools or slaves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

369. “Seeing a friend cry is not as painful as hearing an enemy laugh.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

370. “Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

371. “The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

372. “To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

373. “We lose huge portions of our lives to making a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

374. “Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

375. “Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

376. “It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

377. “Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

378. “Prostitutes hire out one tiny portion of their bodies. Employees sell countless huge portions of their lives.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

379. “Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

380. “Realizing that God or Nature did not give you free will will free you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

381. “Some people are so impatient that they ask you for a favour as soon as they are done complimenting you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

382. “Most adults make adulthood seem like a disease that is caused by a deficiency of playfulness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

383. “Some people do not afford a healthy diet and lifestyle because of their health insurance.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

384. “It is silly to complain about the hardships caused by your endeavour to achieve a goal for which you are willing to die.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

385. “Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

386. “Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

387. “Most people do not have a problem with being old. They have a problem with looking old.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

388. “At times it is what we do not say, or not saying a thing, that says a lot about us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

389. “Our arrogance as a species is only a few degrees away from us claiming that we invented, not discovered, fire.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

390. “There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

391. “When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

392. “Because our minds are problem-solving machines, we are inclined to focus on the undesirable, usually at the expense of the desirable.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

393. “A sane man who is untidy seems crazier than a tidy man who is insane.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

394. “You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

395. “It is childish to be surprised by something that you knew exists or is possible.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

396. “Some people hate being single so much that they are often the boyfriend or girlfriend of someone who they do not love.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

397. “The probability of something not happening does not decrease as we increase the number of times we worry about the possibility of it happening.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

398. “The sun does not rise or set. The earth rotates.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

399. “Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

400. “Our friends are often secretly made happy, or less unhappy, by their finding out about our problems, because that reminds them that they are not the only ones who have problems; that some people’s problems are way bigger than theirs; or that some people, unlike them, have real problems.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana