Quotes From "Mirror" By Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Some say they love you, but some actually "do" the loving. These are the ones that truly love you, because love is seen in actions. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

When you read a book and its words agree with what you think, your view of the world or your feelings at the time, you discover that there are people out there that think like you. That takes away a feeling of loneliness. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

What is their real problem? Is it the fear or is it what they do after feeling it? Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Just being yourself is the easiest thing you can do. It doesn't take much effort. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Accept changes in others, as much as you would want them to accept changes in you. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Asking why you should retaliate often solves the problem better than retaliation itself. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Trust is hard to gain, but it is even harder to regain once lost. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

If you can't find a good enough reason to do something, then why do it? Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

People talk and people listen, but very few care enough to help. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Be a control freak and people will avoid you. Live and let live, and people will get closer to you and do the same for you. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

People might talk, but minding them will not solve your problems. Thinking and then doing solves problems. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Today is nothing but a snapshot of a place I've been, but not the place I'll always be. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Time is the easiest asset to spend recklessly... Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go places and meet people all sharpen the mind. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

What you do now will be in the past right after you do it. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

It is not something you can tell by looking at a person, but trust is always being increased or decreased as you interact with a person. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

When a person works towards a goal, he or she immediately creates two possible scenarios or outcomes; namely success and failure. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

There's no point in being an unhappy success, and there's not much sense in being a happy failure either. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Time changes things; rather, a person's action over the passage of time changes things. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

You can never rightly judge another person's life because as a person, you only know the truth, with certainty, of your own experiences. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I'm alive now, but I don't know if I will be tomorrow. The state of being alive is not guaranteed, but should I let that stop me from living? Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

There will never be another day such as this one, with all the variables of life combining in such a way to form this opportunity. So don't let it go, grab it. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Most problems can be effectively dealt with before they are in full swing. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Certain aspects of dying are still a mystery to me now, but as I grow and study life more, the end of my life becomes more of a certain truth. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The struggle hurts now but will be sweet in times of retrospect. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Nothing remarkable or impressive comes to be overnight, and all those so-called "overnight success" stories misrepresent the truth. It is only the manifestation of that success that appeared overnight, but its essence was built up over time. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I don't judge a person by the place he or she is. I'm more interested in where that person is going, and the steps they are taking to get there. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Without habitual self-examination, you can be hypocritical, but not see it. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe