{"author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi","total_quotes":38,"quotes":[{"text":"A man protects his fish from rats by keeping it under a cat's watch. How wise!Another buys a gun for security reasons, but decides to kill a ghost with it. How smart!One prays to God for safety, as he climbs a palm tree with sewing thread. How intelligent!Man does not want the truth, and God does not want lies, yet there is no third option.One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing. That's pride. Another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. Humility!Not all that glitters is gold, and not all gold glitters. Watch, with the eyes, and also with the heart.Just because all things are lawful, don't make them expedient. And because a thing is right doesn't mean it edifies.With Faith, Wisdom comes highly recommended!","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["faith","gegeara-com","humility","lies","love","olaotan-fawehinmi","poor","pride","rich","truth","wisdom"],"id":19928,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"Success, Bill Gates said, is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.Same goes for good looking people. Beauty reduces the consciousness that it takes more to catch the heart of the right partner.We often think being good at one thing is all we need to succeed, but hey, success is less of what you are good at, but more of what you are good for.Of what use is beauty with no brains, culture without character, knowledge that does not impact, or skill that does not add value?For any seemingly 'good' thing to last, great attention we must pay to the unseen intrinsic component that sustains it.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["attention","beauty","bill-gates","brains","character","culture","gegeara","good","good-look","good-looking","good-looks","heart","impact","knowledge","olaotan-fawehinmi","oniegegara","right-partner","skill","smart-people","succeed","success","teacher","value"],"id":32854,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"If there is “better”, then there is a “best”. If there is “half”, then there is a “complete”. Far more than being a “better half”, you can be a “best complete”; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["best","best-complete","better","better-half","complete","half","love","marriage","olaotan-fawehinmi","phrase","relationship","sentence","union","word"],"id":50346,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"Time waits for no man' but no man dares not wait for 'his Time.'Love is patient' but Time is not, yet it takes Time to find Love.Love they say, is blind. Because it 'covers a multitude of sins?'To Love we should unwind, tell me when was the last Time.Love is steep; in no Time you fall in it.Time is free, howbeit, a sacrifice to spend with Love.The more Love fills the heart, the Less Time to mind...Yet, the same Time heals the heart when Love breaks it.Yay, the friendly enmity between Time and Love.Embrace it, only if you can!","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["embrace","enemies","enmity","friendly","heart","love","love-is-blind","man","patience","sacrifice","time","waiting"],"id":53895,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the ‘simple’ A B C to Z.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["alphabets","eyes","hand","mind","mouth","olaotan-fawehinmi","reading","talking","words","write","writers","writing"],"id":61955,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"Character is like 'Structural Integrity' in the field of engineering.A construction is believed to have structural integrity when it can withstand 'impact' from anywhere and anything, functioning adequately for its desired purposes and service life, until a physical collapse proves otherwise.'Integrity' springs from the original Latin root 'integrum', which means 'Intact'.A man has INTEGRITY when he remains INTACT, despite the IMPACT of forces that seek to sidetrack him.He will never confuse 'what is' with 'what ought to be', EVEN WHEN 'what is' will work in his favour.A man who will choose, not what the world forces his hands to choose, but what aligns with his destiny and will propel him to become what he is meant to become.Such men are few, such men should be me and you.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["building","character","choice","construction","destiny","engineering","favour","impact","intact","integrity","life","olaotan-fawehinmi","purpose","structural-integrity","structure"],"id":64124,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"We are made by the choices we make. We are defined, not by how or where we were born but what we make out of the 'where' and 'how'; not much of how we started but more of how we decide to end.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["birth","choices","end","olaotan-fawehinmi","start"],"id":88181,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"Taking the Right Decision in any situation only requires TWO major ingredients:Critical Thinking and Grace.Critical Thinking is like 'Works' and Grace is like 'Faith'. So if 'Faith without Works is dead,' then same, I believe, goes for Works without Faith.Like the two sides of a coin, one without the other just won't make any sense. And if the coin ever has a third side, it will never be 'Emotions' or 'Sentiments' because they both have zero IQ.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["break-up","breaking-up","coin","critical-thinking","emotions","faith","giving","grace","heartbreak","iq","leaving","love","marriage","moving-on","relationship","right-decision","romance","sentiments","situation","two-sides-of-a-coin","works"],"id":92898,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"Given a test question, every wrong answer you eliminate from options A - E increases your chances of getting the right answer by 20percent.The more you identify what you should not be doing, the closer you get to the things you should do.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["answer","examination","identify","percentage","questions","right","test"],"id":101810,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"Friendship! That bond shared, not with the one you see every day but with the one that has got your back any day.Well, that seems so hard to find these days.So just be the best friend to yourself until you have found a best friend like yourself.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["friend","friend","friends","friendship","friendship-and-love","friendship","friendships"],"id":110366,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}