Thursday, December 5, 2013

Good Bye Nelson Mandela

A great man bids adieu - Thank you for all that you gave us.

The best lesson I learnt from him was while reading Richard Stengel's brilliant book Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage:

None of us is born courageous, Mandela would say, it is all in how we react to different situations. Sometimes it is only through putting up a brave front that you discover true courage. Sometimes the front is your courage:

"Pretend to be brave and you not only become brave, you are brave."

To those who would say that everything happens for a reason, Mandela would reply:

"We are the reason and we are the ones who make things happen. There is no destiny that shapes our end; we shape it ourselves."



(Nelson Mandela and his Rhodesian Ridgeback)

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