Kofi Awoonor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
My family is my strength and my weakness.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.
O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.
It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

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