Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes, Aunty Ifeoma said. Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.
Those that dare not to dream big are cowards, for they fear to expose the already great potentials embedded inside of them.
Nothing is going to work out unless you step up and make it happen.
Man, by thinking, can bring into his experience whatsoever he desires--if he thinks correctly, and becomes a living embodiment of his thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts but by knowing the...
A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.
I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...