Sunday, February 8, 2015

"THE USURPER: AND OTHER STORIES" Quotes

...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,”
                                                      From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“Not all heroes had a concept that guided their heroic deeds.”
                                                     From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“Isn’t materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?"
                                                     From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

...Life is so sweet even though it is full of lies and half truths...
                                                     From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

…blissfulness is the summit of contentment…
                                                      From   The Usurper: and Other Stories

...The greatest test of friendship is misfortune...
                                                      From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test their talents. These latent talents will only help to produce a next cycle of dropouts...”
                                                      From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

… there is no permanence or guarantee in this life.”
                                                      From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“Obsessive love wears down both its target and the obsessor.”
                                                      From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

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.”
                                                      From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...”
                                                      From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

 “...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people’s destiny is charted...”
                                                     From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life...”
                                                    From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...Truth is one of life’s enigmas that can never be eternally concealed...”
                                                    From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...The depth of a woman’s love is a reflection of her ties to the fatherly and brotherly figures in her life; and the degree of love, trust, respect and honesty that was developed.”
                                                    From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...A grandchild is a friend; our true child in sobriety; a parent, a husband, a wife, a brother, a sister or a child missed; an ascertainment of the continuity of a bloodline and somebody we wish to protect even against our despicable mistakes...”
                                                    From The Usurper: and Other Stories
 
“...Women are gentle in manner but resolute in their deeds. Therefore, remorse has a very limited place in their hearts after a calculated and decisive deed...”
                                                   From  The Usurper: and Other Stories



“...A mother has the right of nurture over a child, but the right of nature is in favor of the child’s father...”
                                                   From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...No custom or tradition should be retained if it contravenes the progress, development, freedom and the essential rights of a people...”
                                                  From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...Options are the prerogative of the free and customs are the limitations on the constrained...”
                                                  From The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...Man is born free, but constraints ensure the serenity of society which he cannot alienate himself from being a part of...”
                                                  From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...Our fathers should be the first men we trust in life because we need their love to mature into loving and secure women, wives and mothers...”
                                                  From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...A gorilla crawls because it wants to succumb to nature. We pay the bride price because our waists are too stiff; making it difficult to plead at the feet of the women we want to marry. So, we pass through their families to perform this honorable act of nature...”
                                                 From  The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...It is bad to be betrayed by someone you love when you are at your peak. But it is disastrous to be betrayed when at your lowest ebb...”
                                               From The Usurper: and Other Stories

“...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?”

                                                From  The Usurper: and Other Stories




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