Ubuntu Quotes

“A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”
― Desmond Tutu

“Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.”
― Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

“I was born in debian,
school in ubuntu,
worked with some distro,
and finally on slackware I go home.”
― creatorbe

“When we uplift others, we in turn uplift ourselves.”
― Elizabeth Nyamayaro, I Am a Girl from Africa

“Ubuntu symbolises humanity, togetherness, virtue, kindness and other goodnesses.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety

“Ubuntu is part of our culture
Ubuntu was taught at home
Ubuntu was taught in schools
Ubuntu was taught in the community
Ubuntu was taught in church.
Today Ubuntu is nowhere to be found.
Because we think being civil, educated, cool, and modern means forgetting who we are and what we are. Leaving behind our culture and heritage.
Before we dress nice. Ubuntu is the root and heart of our heritage and that we need to celebrate every day. The world is getting messed up, dark and a bad place, because we lack Ubuntu.
We all need the spirit of Ubuntu in us and that is our heritage.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Change is supposedly the only constant
But somehow the only change is constantly in the same pockets”
― Andrew Edward Lucier, Awakenigma Allegory Anomalous

“Als je snel wilt gaan, reis alleen. Als je ver wilt gaan, reis dan samen.”
― Mungi Ngomane, De lessen van Ubuntu: de Afrikaanse filosofie voor een gelukkig leven

“A caring woman will always care about other people, even if the same care is not given to her. She does not give up on the true value of Ubuntu.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“Proverbs are used to illustrate ideas, reinforce arguments, to deliver messages of inspiration, consolation, celebration and advice.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety

“African Proverbs’ intended benefit, also, among others, is to practice virtue – as it can’t be lived just in words – and to mitigate adverse events in life as they occur always.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety

“I believe the meaning of Ubuntu and its symbolism goes way before languages and or even Stoicism. It is the foundation of humanity having evolved and evolving for the better. It will carry on beyond today even.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety

“Today, I was reminded that family life is never perfect, it is almost a touch of confusion and chaos wrapped into these amazingly brilliant moments that make you feel loved from the tip of your toes right up to the last strand of hair on your head. Yet, that isn’t what defines a family. It’s the strength of the bonds that help us to find our centeredness even when the situation presents itself as having no center.

In those cases, until you find your center, Peppermint Pull-Up cake is always recommended, as a type of a sugary meditation to seal the bonds between those you love, and to remind each other that the way back is always through the center of love. And it makes us realize the gift housed inside of the madness…when our bonds of family live up to the wisdom of an old African saying: “To get lost is to learn the way.”

The way always points home…toward the direction of our family’s heart. That point that can break, heal, and break again just to lead us to where peace resides.

The juncture called...family.”
― hlbalcomb

“At Hennie’s home in Worcester, in true South Africa style, we braaied choppies, Boerewors, chicken, and braaibroodtjies along with a few different types of salads and dessert, which included Peppermint Tart with vanilla ice-cream.

My day started when I learned that my hart se punt is an expression to reaffirm exactly how much we love something or someone. My day ended by learning that love is a measurement of how much our heart can hold. The type of love that makes you feel propvol because the area is completely filled up.

And that’s the type of love that helps us to understand expressions of love that we have never considered before since love gives us the confidence to understand that love can’t be contained into little bottles or containers of security. Love is an ever-flowing emotion much like a running river that inspires us as it sweeps across our lives, and it covers everything with its inspiration simply called my hart se punt.

A point that reminds us that we’re not that special, love is our universal gift.

A point that always pulls us toward our heart’s True North, even when can’t initially see the blessing that is hiding past the weight of the cross.

An anchor of truth that’s freeing, as it pulls us toward our life’s highest purpose to be made whole, not perfect, through love’s grace that is simply called...

Die Punt, The Point.”
― hlbalcomb

“In that moment, I felt sad just thinking about leaving South Africa, and the people that I had met along the way during my cross-country adventures. In such a short space of time, they had filled my heart like they say in Afrikaans, propvol, meaning to full capacity, or to the point that there’s no space left – propvol meaning that not even a small cap full of something could fit because the space is chockful and completely stuffed.

And that is exactly how my heart felt – propvol, stuffed with little South African remembrances and an endless string of little moments held together by the names of people, locations, or Afrikaans words or phrases combined with tasty meals enjoyed around dining room tables, outdoor living spaces, and confined places like the inside of the Land Rover while driving down the coastline of South Africa.

Propvol, and yet that wasn’t enough….”
― hlbalcomb

“Altruism (Ubuntu) is the middle path between selflessness and selfishness.”
― Fuka Kobue, Mafa A Taro: Volumes 1 & 2

“Dharmanator (The Nonduality Sonnet)

Pani, Agua, Water, it's all one;
Ubuntu, Advaita, Ahava, it's all one;
Creation, Consciousness, Evolution, it's all one;
To fathom this you gotta unlearn all separatism.

Division imposed by facts and intellect is just
as degrading as those imposed by faith and fiction.
True light of knowledge obliterates all divide,
instead of turning mind into a dumpyard of reason.

When a computer engineer becomes a monk,
then that monk becomes a brain scientist,
your revered paradigms are bound to crumble,
as all institutions stand on grounds separatist.

Apes may be stuck in prehistoric duality,
Norm of the cosmos is nonduality.
With your binary eyes of belief and disbelief,
You'll never wake up to cosmic serendipity.

Move past your psychoduality,
If you wanna unfold human vastness.
Faith and logic both will turn bland,
Once you wake up to sapiosentience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Pani, Agua, Water, it's all one; Ubuntu, Advaita, Ahava, it's all one; Creation, Consciousness, Evolution, it's all one; To fathom this you gotta unlearn all separatism.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Pani, Agua, Water, it's all one;
Ubuntu, Advaita, Ahava, it's all one;
Creation, Consciousness, Evolution, it's all one;
To fathom this you gotta unlearn all separatism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One