2,446 Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You need to have really wasted your life to envy the young for being young.

Unhappiness is a contagious disease caused by a chronic deficiency of gratitude.

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

Some women look like their mothers’ mothers. Some look like they’re their mothers’ mothers.

Even idiots can reach old age.

Getting older seems to but does not make us even more mortal.

Being younger than someone has the tendency to leave you with the belief that you will outlive them.

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

It takes generosity to be the one teaching, and humility to be the one being taught.