He reminded her of Obinze’s expression for people he liked. Obi ocha. A clean heart.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His...
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.