"I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements."

-- Zola Budd

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“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”
“The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.”
“Disease may ... be thought of as the negation of the normal.”
“There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.”
“...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death really means anymore. Maybe that was the point. Maybe this is an object lesson about the arrogance of our assumptions. Hard to say. But the world? She didn't change. She healed. We stopped hurting her and she began to heal. You can see it all around. The whole world is a forest now. The air is fresher. More trees, more oxygen.”
“I smoke a brown pipe like the breast of a little negress.”
“My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.”
“He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.”

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