Vusi Mahlasela Quotes

#1. The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

Vusi Mahlasela

#2. At school you were taught about chemicals in test tubes, equations to describe motion, and maybe something on photosynthesis - about which more later - but in all likelihood you were taught nothing about death, risk, statistics, and the science of what will kill or cure you.

Ben Goldacre

#3. It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness ...

James Salter

#4. A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

Plautus

#6. I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

Cat Stevens

#7. Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

Madeleine L'Engle

#8. I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.

Vusi Mahlasela

#9. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts

Jacob Grimm

#10. Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

Epicurus

#11. Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening.

J.G. Ballard

#12. You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

Robin Williams

#13. If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

Vusi Mahlasela

#14. Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

Vusi Mahlasela

#15. Playing at home in Mamelodi is always so special to me, and I cherish those moments dearly.

Vusi Mahlasela

#16. Making a spell is easy. It's trusting you did it right that's hard.

Kim Harrison

#17. In Romania, I train on a bar that is bent. My gym has bad lighting and very little heat in the winters. Here in America, you have everything you need to train. It's not in the bar or the gym or the platform it's in you.

Nicu Vlad

#18. I feel blessed to be a musician, and I know it's a power given to me from God that I must use in a very positive way.

Vusi Mahlasela

#19. Her beauty was a weapon - one she kept honed - but it could also be a vulnerability. Arobynn

Sarah J. Maas