Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.”

“Pursuing happiness comes with being pursued by unhappiness.”

“For our success to happen, millions of billions of things, the vast majority of which were neither in our control nor in our awareness, needed not only to happen but also to happen how, when, where, and—in some cases—for how long, they have happened; and to happen to the things and the people to whom they have happened.”

“It takes wisdom to gain wealth without losing health.”

“Imagine how much more crazy money would drive us if we could each drive more than one car at the same time.”

“A promotion usually increases the amount of money we can spend on our loved ones, but decreases the amount of time we can spend with our loved ones.”

“The past happened, and the future will happen, now.”

“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”

“It is foolish to waste time in order to save money.”

“The present moment is as old as existence … and as long as eternity.”

“Mindfulness is the art of experiencing the nonexistence of the past and the future.”

“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”

“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”

“Time is an illusion we suffer from whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.”

“The illusion of time deceives us into thinking that life is going somewhere.”

“Time is merely an idea that we use to fill the gap between how things are and how they were.”

“Even the truth is just a mere thought.”

“A fire made by burning holy books warms both the nonbeliever and the believer.”

“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”

“A shadow does not need the object to which it belongs to move for it to move.”