Simphiwe Dana quotes

Simphiwe Dana quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The overall message is 'one love,' which means love begins with oneself. If you can't love yourself, you can't love anyone around you.”
-- Simphiwe Dana

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“Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.”
-- Simphiwe Dana

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“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
“To kill nothing, that is love.”
“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.”
“It was like she'd become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.”
“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of manâ€™s inhumanity to man.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com
“An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of proprietyâ€“â€“Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.”
“If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experienceâ€¦ would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?”
“Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.”

Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”
“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”
“Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message”

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