Maretha Botha > Maretha's Quotes

“I've received a few free gifts - one is the gift of life and another the gift of choice - and so I choose to live my life positively, despite life's many ups and downs, having hope that tomorrow will always be better.”
― MMBotha

“Protecting the environment is an obligation, not a choice.”
― Southern African Birds SASOL

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.”
― Mahatma Ghandi

“Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism, time is a great healer, is of no consolation at that moment of intense, all-consuming grief.

From GLASS HALF FULL”
― Sarah Jane Butfield

“Darkness descends to eclipse the Light
Death will take the lives of many, sparing no one.
In deaths of the Doomed, Light shimmers:
The Light that will set the Beholder free.”
― Ivan Amberlake, The Beholder

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.”
― George Plimpton

“Never write anything that does not move you or give you pleasure. Emotion is then transferred from the writer to the reader.”
― Massimo Marino

“May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.”
― R.P. Dahlke, A Dead Red Oleander

“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Improbable is not the same as impossible.”
― Shelley Workinger

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”
― Lewis Carroll

“If you never play with fire, then you'll never keep warm.”
― Scott Toney

“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
― Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York

“A child who suffers from PTSD has made unsuccessful attempts to get help, and as the victimization continues, he stops asking for it. He withdraws socially, because he’s never quite sure when interaction is going to lead to another incident of bullying….
Different people have different responses to stress. In Peter’s case, I saw an extreme emotional vulnerability, which, in fact, was the reason he was teased. Peter didn’t play by the codes of boys. He wasn’t a big athlete. He wasn’t tough. He was sensitive. And difference is not always respected – particularly when you’re a teenager. Adolescence is about fitting in, not standing out.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous”
― Bette A. Stevens, Amazing Matilda: A Monarch's Tale

“Don’t turn your face away.
Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know.
Open your eyes to the truth. It’s all around you.
Don’t deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you.

Now that you know, you cannot feign ignorance.
Now that you’re aware of the problem, you cannot pretend you don’t care.
To be concerned is to be human.
To act is to care.”
― Vashti Quiroz-Vega

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin