Inspirational Quotes for the WEEKEND

By Dr Charles Leyman Kachitsa

Quite often, others would have advised on the right path to take from the beginning. This could be at the beginning of the year or at the beginning of a journey, commencement of a life changing episode in life or just on judgement that it is necessary. One has to be prepared to take the advice on the start. Simple as this would sound, not all follow this path.

In taking advice positively, listening is considered one of the skills that one who has mastered it, would stand out from all. It is therefore that those who have this skill listen and pay attention to details at the beginning of whatever it is that they are starting. Paradoxically, even one entering formally a permanent life partnership, by which this is talking about marriage, is subjected to advice given by the more experienced members of the community they live in though they might have seen examples of successful relationships in their vicinity.

As we are still in January, the year is just starting, we need to seek advice which will propel us to be where we would better be, better than the previous station. A great advice often noble people give in this period at the beginning of the year, is that we never be comfortable where ever we are at, but to seek even more improvements for all areas of life. The pursuit of bettering one self is a normal nature tendency of human beings including for those in sickness, suffering one way or the other or just tired where they are. Having taken stock and made resolutions, it is time to take action as the year is younger sooner to be another one.

The quotes this week are extracted from a book that makes richness sound glamorous yet attracting mixed feelings in people\’s understanding of that state. It drives home the point of where to get true answers when all we seek seem truly found without the satisfaction it promised. I am sure the selected quotations below from this book will enlighten you to one or two life lessons. Read and enjoy:

FILTHY RICH by Manoj Raithatha

\”When you have money, people fall into two groups – people who want to be near you and jealous people who want to be you. Maria was odd. She failed to fit into either camp. I thrilled on the attention of others. Yet beneath the surface all was not well. Small cracks were becoming great chasms in me and with my relationships with my wife and friends. Even if I had wanted to stop I wouldn\’t have known how to. I had become an addict – addicted to making money, addicted to being successful, addicted to showing the world how good I was. I had got on the treadmill and rather than slowing occasionally for some respite. I found myself stepping up another gear. The treadmill was moving at a reckless pace and I could barely keep up. But I couldn\’t slow it down. London was a buzz of activity and I needed to be at the centre of it all. The thought of stopping was easily rebuked. This was my life. This was all I knew. …….\”

\”In a sense I had committed to Jesus without really knowing what following Him entailed. There were a number of changes happening to my nature, not by my own doing but by God\’s. Suddenly I found I was growing in compassion for others and that relationships were being strengthened, and that the love of money was diminishing as my passion to tell everyone about Jesus was increasing. I surely must have put a few people off following Jesus in the early days, as I shared my excitement about my new-found faith, and I know that this was sometimes a bit much for close family. ……….\”

\”Money is good – you need it to get by and to help others with less. However, it can also change people and families for the worse overnight. I felt like a stranger in my own home.\”

\”Most people would agree that we are all searching for happiness, whether that\’s through our careers, our relationships, getting drunk every weekend, living a promiscuous life, substance abuse, caring for our families – countless reasons good and bad. One way or another, we are on a journey and we want to arrive at that place where we can say we have finally made it, where we have come to the place where we are no longer searching.\”