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Famous Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes
“A statement can be truthful when it is said or written, but untruthful when it is heard or read.”
“Some people see their blessings as curses. Some see their curses as blessings.”
“Humility is even more pleasing in people in whom arrogance would be understandable.”
“Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for.”
“We sometimes show lack of compassion by not giving a fat person a lift. Or by giving them one.”
“What is heard is pushed, but what is read is pulled, into the mind.”
“A person is as much a thought when alive as he or she will be when dead.”
“Thinking’ is in almost all cases a euphemism for ‘self-storytelling’.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“You do not think. You are thought … and therefore a thought.”
“The quality of the mind is greatly shaped by that of the brain.”
“We are alive the most when we are awake but our mind is not.”
“In some cases, the mind doesn’t share the body’s desire to continue living.”
“The mind cannot really rest or be still: it is either busy, or non-existent.”
“We cannot really experience something while we are thinking, not even the act of thinking.”
“We can realize, not that our mind is wandering, but that it was.”
“Only about two percent of one percent of our thoughts deserve to be taken seriously.”
“In many if not most cases, a psychologist is a glorified and paid shoulder to cry on.”
“A long life is a curse if you have a short temper.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”
“Depression often transforms the will to live into the will to leave (the world).”