Quotes from Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

I'm alive now, but I don't know if I will be tomorrow. The state of being alive is not guaranteed, but should I let that stop me from living?

I don't judge a person by the place he or she is. I'm more interested in where that person is going, and the steps they are taking to get there.

Certain aspects of dying are still a mystery to me now, but as I grow and study life more, the end of my life becomes more of a certain truth.

The struggle hurts now but will be sweet in times of retrospect.

What is their real problem? Is it the fear or is it what they do after feeling it?

Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part.

Be a control freak and people will avoid you. Live and let live, and people will get closer to you and do the same for you.

People might talk, but minding them will not solve your problems. Thinking and then doing solves problems.

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.

Today is nothing but a snapshot of a place I've been, but not the place I'll always be.

Time is the easiest asset to spend recklessly...

Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception.

There's no point in being an unhappy success, and there's not much sense in being a happy failure either.

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things.

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.

By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons.

True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself.

Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time.

Just being yourself is the easiest thing you can do. It doesn't take much effort.