TruthOrator's Blog

'People often say that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realising that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.' Salma Hayek 'How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin that's what really makes you beautiful.' Bobbi Brown Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape. - Scarlett Johansson The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. - Audrey Hepburn Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty is eterni...

“A victory for Buhari in a way is a salute to Nigeria. It’s a statement that Nigeria’s democracy has matured to the point where it now has two viable and competitive parties.” Dr. J. Peter Pham “If the continent’s largest democracy can get through an election with a relatively clean bill of health, that’s a positive signal for electoral management across Africa.” Edward Paice “Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.” – Chinua Achebe “Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.” – Wole Soyinka “The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.” – Ben Okri “They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.” – Chinua Achebe Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no...

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. --Kurt Vonnegut When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. --Hilaire Belloc Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. --Thomas Merton Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. --Indra Devi You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. --Theodore Sturgeon One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. --Elbert Hu...

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. --Orson Welles The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. --Mother Teresa I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answer to everything, but I'm tired of being alone. --Unknown Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. --Dag Hammarskjold It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard. --David Crosby Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. --Henry Rollins Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. An...

"Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea but have no real familiarity with the business world." --Gavin Newsom "I can't help thinking if she--the director of a government agency--is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from--how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business." --Matthew Lesko "You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it." --Harold S. Geneen "Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success." --Biz Stone "I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer." --Richa...

Some people, especially women think finding a marriage partner and getting married is so hard. Most times, it is like that because they are already married and they don't even know. All they need to do is to divorce. 1. Divorce that imaginary husband you put on fb when you put your relationship status "married" or "engaged" and you know in your heart there is no one. 2. Divorce that Boyfriend in your head: No, your boyfriend is NOT your husband. Women's minds have supersonic speed when a man seems to love them deeply, they begin to see him as a husband whereas he's not even said any such thing. This is a very bitter truth. Deal with it. If a man, a real man finds a wife in a woman, he won't waste time in marrying her. One year is too much. You stay engaged to a man for more than 5 years he's no longer a fiance he's a fence. Am sure u can use your hopes for something else. 3. Divorce that father of your child. Seriously, its very common...

These 15 relationship truths may be a bit difficult to accept at times, but in the end, they will help you weed out the wrong relationships, make room for the right ones, and nurture the people who are most important to you. 1. Some relationships will be blessings, others will serve as lessons. – Either way, never regret knowing someone.  Everyone you encounter teaches you something important.  Some people will test you, some will use you, and some will teach you; but most importantly some will bring out the best in you. 2. When times get tough, some people will leave you. – When you are up in life, your friends get to know who you are.  When you are down in life, you get to know who your true friends are.  There will be lots of people around when times are easy, but take note of who remains in your life when times get tough, especially the people who sacrifice the resources they have in their life to help you improve yours when you need it most.  These pe...

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." -- Mark Zuckerberg. Reality check: Will your current level be able to sustain you 20 years down the line with the kind of lifestyle you hope to live? If you answer is NO, then the time to make adjustments is now. Beware of your gifts; they may appear as tiny as seeds but at the end, they’ll gain roots to bear fruits to feed the world if only you will desire to water them regularly! --Israelmore Ayivor If you are hurt by others, mistrust and hate them, you can not heal. You are only punishing your own soul. FORGIVENESS is the key here. Forgive and let GO. It is a gift you give to your self in order to heal your wounds. Life goes on no matter what! It's either LOVE or HATE. Which would you choose? --Angie Karan Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyon...

A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities. --Israelmore Ayivor Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders. --Israelmore Ayivor The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within in a specific area of his or purpose. Leadership is universal and built on trust. --Israelmore Ayivo You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers. Followers look for them. --Israelmore Ayivo Not everything that's righ...

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. --Roopleen Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready. --Nayyirah Waheed Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks. --Roopleen Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through. --Jarod Kintz When you are living the best versi...

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” — Martin Luther “Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths.  No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.” — Mark Twain  “Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.” — Zig Ziglar  “There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.” — James Holt McGavran  “As you get older, you’ve probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You’ll be talking with somebody at a party, and you’ll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can’t remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.” — Dave Barry  “Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that c...

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” -Bruce Lee “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” -Albert Einstein  “Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” -Maya Angelou “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain “You cannot dream yourself into character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” -Henry David Thorea “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re sca...

“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” ― Mother Teresa “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ― Charles Dickens “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ― Winston S. Churchill “Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.” ― Mother Teresa “Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life “Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.” ― Ben Carson “Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” ― Amy Wilson-Carmichael “I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be w...

Sometimes the best lessons are the ones you don't want to hear. Right after the first of the year, I’ll turn 35. And what a life it’s been so far. My childhood wasn’t perfect, but I was raised by parents who showed me they loved me every day. I didn’t always like the lessons they taught me, but I know now that they were always coming from a good and honest place. And it was those lessons, the hard ones, that forced me to grow up and be… me. Once I finished school and transitioned into adulthood, I fell in love — real love — with my husband. Several years later, we became the parents of two amazing children who light up my world. And in 2012, a lifelong dream of mine came true; I started a business that eventually allowed me to leave my 9-to-5 job and support my family as a solopreneur. I’ve traveled many places in the world, achieved things I never dreamed possible, and experienced so many joyous moments that I feel utterly undeserving. And it’s all because of the lessons...

The speed of your success is limited only by your dedication and what you're willing to sacrifice --Nathan W. Morris If money management isn't something you enjoy, consider my perspective. I look at managing my money as if it were a part-time job. The time you spend monitoring your finances will pay off. You can make real money by cutting expenses and earning more interest on savings and investments. I'd challenge you to find a part-time job where you could potentially earn as much money for just an hour or two of your time. --Laura D. Adams Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. --William A. Ward It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. --Seneca Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the d...

It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable. --Ashly Lorenzana Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. --Maimonides I had a dream about you. I said green was blue and yellow, and you said green was yellow and blue. You were like that with everything I said, taking the exact opposite stance, yet completely agreeing with me. That’s how I knew you loved me. --Jarod Kintz I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree. --D.R. Silva What I ...