Good intentions do not always suffice.

— Ufuoma Apoki

Honesty can sometimes be so brutal to take in. It's usual to get so drowned in perceived idealism that you can't seem to separate it from honest reality. If, and when, you can separate the two, the gaiety of fantasy is destroyed

— Ufuoma Apoki

If ANYTHING is meant to be, it will be ONLY if you work out the methodologies for it to be. Things just don't be because they work themselves out to be, or they want to be. They be because someone conceived them to be, and worked them out to be. Therefore, debunk the idea of leaving your THINGS to be in the fragile gamble of fate. MAKE THEM BE!

— Ufuoma Apoki

If everyone just accepted you the way you are, then, probably, you'd still be the way you were. So for anyone who didn't accept you at one point, just give 'em a smile in your heart and say, "Thank You"!

— Ufuoma Apoki

If you've been on this side, then you'll have more compassion and understanding for those still on this side when you get to the other side, because you know how it feels like to be on this side. Sometimes though, relief comes too sudden and good that we tend to lose our sense of empathy for those still on this side, and it's amazing how we've forgotten so soon how it felt like to be on this side. How would it have felt if you were treated the same way you treat those who are on this side by those who were on the other side, when you were still on this side, now that you are on the other side?

— Ufuoma Apoki

In listening lies great power. Many are expert in speaking (while everyone hears), adept in analyzing in bits and pieces, very prompt in commenting, and always ready to stamp judgement of 'right' or 'wrong'. Very few are skilled in listening, first, with the ears and, then, with the heart. Those who do hold true, sustainable, and great power.

— Ufuoma Apoki

I try as much as possible to keep pushing myself beyond my limits, those set by myself, and those by others, to see how much lies within. He said nothing is impossible and I truly believe Him. Once in while I go beyond. . . More often than not, I get pretty burned and decline to tend to my sores in solitude, whilst trying the best I can to find out why I burned so bad. Other times, I surprise myself at the power within has been lying dormant probably out of ignorance or out of fear. Either ways, I learn. . . And probably that is the most significant thing to be gleaned out of every experience.

— Ufuoma Apoki

I've learned not to draw my sword first to strike. That in no way portends I have the most feeble of minds or might. . . Probably, I'm waiting for the perfect moment to startle with a fatal strike.

— Ufuoma Apoki

I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. But I didn't know I was stronger than I thought.

— Ufuoma Apoki

I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. What I never knew, though, was that I was actually stronger than I thought I was.

— Ufuoma Apoki