It's the holiday season

By Sicebise Msengana

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The holiday season has just began and its quite hectic around this time of the year. But in spite of the busyness, we have been blessed to experience the warmth and love that surrounds us. 2015 has its good and bad times, success and failures.

Here are some inspirational quotes about the spirit of the festive season:

The Solution To All Of The World's Problems

By Sicebise Msengana

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In retrospect, suffering is our greatest teacher


When you turn on the TV to watch the news and to your shock you learn about the Paris terrorist attacks or the little Christian girls that were kidnapped by the Boko Haram in 2014 or a vicious rape and murder of a ninety year-old nun. You cannot help but feel angry and sad at the same time.

Change the World

By Sicebise Msengana

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Changing our vision

There was a very wealthy man who was bothered by severe eye pain. He consulted many physicians and was being treated by several. He did not stop consulting a galaxy of medical experts; he consumed heavy loads of drugs and underwent hundreds of injections. But the ache persisted with more vigour than before.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

By Sicebise Msengana

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In a real world there is no perfect environment, perfect life, perfect parents etc. This life is the only life one can be sure of. This is why you cannot afford to lose this battle--be it addictions to drugs and alcohol, depression.

It is true that some pain and suffering is inevitable and part of the human journey. You suffer in all things--relationships, career, studying, poverty and whatever comes your way. History is filled with rare individuals who inspire us all and display how much potential the human specie has. But it takes hard work, determination and t

15 inspirational quotes about giving back

By Sicebise Msengana

1. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is
blessed.-Maya Angelou

2. No one has ever become poor by giving.  -Anne Frank

3. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.-Martin Luther King Jr.

4. The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer. -Mahatma Gandhi

The Brutal Rape of Africa

By Sicebise Msengana

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“You can see that there is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and
many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow (of
death) again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our
desires…
Teach children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans.”
(Address at the ANC Congress, 21 September 1953)