“To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural intelligence, the side of truth, no matter what success I have, there is a prize which I cannot fail to win. I will find it in the depths of my heart.”
Source: Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and Polemics
“Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to create it. That was what made the modern morality, with its emphasis on individuals and the working out of an individual position, so weak. If you gave people the chance to work out their morality, then they would work out the version which was easiest for them and which allowed them to do what suited them for as much of the time as possible. That, in Mma Ramotswe's view, was simple selfishness, whatever grand name one gave to it.”
Source: Morality for Beautiful Girls
“When we live our life as if it is an open book, we are free in body, mind, and spirit and allow anyone to read from our pages.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“You have a choice in everything in life, so keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make makes you.”
“You are the machos, the life, the future of our families. You are all that's left, so you must protect our mothers and grow and do good and have families of your own. I love you. I do. I do.”
Source: Rain of Gold
“The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be”
Source: Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
“Conscious humility is the decision to live from our hearts.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“We have soul contracts with every person in our lives to live in the vibration of truth.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“When the truth is dispensed it is for the good of all, always.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“where the Army we loved sold us out for careerist brass, a war-porn-fixated media and military-industrial-complex corporate greed; where the only honor and integrity seemed to exist among the troops on the line.”
Source: Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him