Through the Gates of Thought Quotes

“If your strength is small, don’t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don’t give advice.” Chinese proverb”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.” Bill Cosby”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“I grew up in an environment where the onus of raising a child was not on the parents alone but of the entire community. The logic is in that a child who becomes a burden or an armed robber becomes a threat not only to the parents but to a whole society!”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“Oral tradition is practised in most African cultures: ideals, family histories and legacies are handed down from one generation to the other physically or verbally. However, this system is flawed in the sense that a lot of African innovation, experience and culture have been lost, undocumented.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.” Oscar Wilde”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.” Dutch proverb”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“have used two days to sit and write this essay. In this period, I would have had free time if I had not written this. That free time will be lost forever. Time wears and makes no noise, the English say. Watch time, utilise it, fill up the small spaces. You can do much, much more with it.   And no, the days and years are not getting shorter: the value to each one of us is just not the same. The value depends on you. Charles Richards encapsulates it beautifully: “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you made use of it. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“Life would be infinitely happier if we would only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach eighteen.” Mark Twain”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more – the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.” Joseph Conrad”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“Actions lie louder than words.” Carolyn Wells”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“We concur that Rome was not built in a day but in practice, we want to leap from lying in cots to walking in space. Orison S. Marden declared that “we live in an age of haste. Some people look at an egg and expect it to crow.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“Between 965 BC and 928 BC, he ruled the ancient kingdom of Israel, the third King of Israel, and son of one of the greatest kings that ever graced this earth. This man, named Solomon, is well acknowledged and remembered for his administrative skills, diplomacy and personal wisdom. In some ways, he came close and arguably surpassed the influence his father, David, had. Just as the bird cannot give birth to a crab, so the offspring of the snake is not expected to be short!”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.” William Makepeace Thackeray”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“Kindness is the beginning and the end of the law.” Hebrew proverb”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“When you teach kindness to animals, you teach reverence for life in general. The youngster who is taught concern for animals will grow up being kind to his fellow man. It follows, too, that he will not become callous to widespread suffering in any form.” Bernard Beck”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“Remember what Christian Bovée said: “Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living the example is the best advice you can ever give. Only examples have children.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“It is more blessed to give than to receive”, the Bible advocates. When it comes to advice, I humbly submit that it is more blessed to avail yourself of it, utilise it, apply it yourself, before you give it. Put it to use first before suggesting it to someone else.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought

“Words are cheap but they gain greater worth when they first minister to the speaker of the same.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought