"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."

-- Wole Soyinka

#Confidence Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.”
“Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation”
“Living in memories is an empty gesture.”
“Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.”
“When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.”
“It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh.”
“No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.”
“South Africa used to seem so far away. Then it came home to me. It began to signify the meaning of white hatred here. That was what the sheets and the suits and the ties covered up, not very well. That was what the cowardly guys calling me names from their speeding truck wanted to happen to me, to all of me: to my people. That was what would happen to me if I walked around the corner into the wrong neighborhood. That was Birmingham. That was Brooklyn. That was Reagan. That was the end of reason. South Africa was how I came to understand that I am not against war; I am against losing the war.”

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