Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 10

Your inner light is your brightest light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A wolf only attends a rabbit’s funeral to eat its young.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are a product of your environment, but to be great your environment has to be a product of you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The most beautiful birds do not know how beautiful they are until they see their reflection in water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how much I care for you, you have to do your own growing – it’s your personal responsibility. Muscles do not grow by reading but by lifting weights. Exam grades do not improve by wishing but by studying.
Archibald Marwizi
The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most people, when it came down to it; there were very few who enjoyed flights of fantasy, and to have that sort of mind--one which enjoyed dry with and understood the absurd--left one in a shrinking minority.
Alexander McCall Smith
She had always understood that love could have an intense physical effect; could fill a space somewhere in the chest, could turn knees weak, could raise the pulse; could intoxicate, just as could a strong martini or a glass of champagne. Could, she thought, and would…but only if you allowed it, only if you opened whatever portals of the heart needed to be opened. And some people, of course, found it difficult to do that.
Alexander McCall Smith
I searched for love, and only found God; I searched for God, and only found love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The sea, no matter how endless, depends on rivers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love in your mind can be felt by some, love in your heart can be felt by many, but love in your soul can be felt by all.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Strength accomplishes sizable things.Wisdom accomplishes incredible things.Faith accomplishes remarkable things.Love accomplishes unbelievable things.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.
Matshona Dhliwayo
... a door shuts in my face, but my face is already looking at another door, wondering when that one will close too and how many good things I would have gotten out of it when it does.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Love gives you knees to crawl, feet to run, legs to sprint, and wings to soar.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No one can steal your happiness unless you give them the key to your heart’s safe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
Alexander McCall Smith
A pretty heart is more valuable than a pretty face.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The heavens shine on us, but God shines in us.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom is more faithful than a woman,and knowledge is more faithful than a friend.Folly is more oppressive than a tyrant,and evil more overwhelming than fury.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who is lost cannot show others the way.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As water downs ships but upholds leaves,and as fires burn cities but refines gold,so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatnessand the proud to ruin.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower that grows in the shade of another blooms slowly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
He who is shallow cannot think deeply.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Trials are part of the adventure to greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Morality cannot replace goodness.Knowledge cannot replace wisdom.Fame cannot replace honor.Pleasure cannot replace contentment.Passion cannot replace love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Beauty catches your eye, joy seizes your heart, and love captures your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot walk on water or move mountains without faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Creating the right mind-set and a positive attitude today, will help you to start crafting a clear plan of how you intend to make your life a success.
Archibald Marwizi
Two minds are smarter than one.Two hands are stronger than one.Two hearts are mightier than one.Two souls are greater than one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, treasure God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A pearl never loses its value, not even when covered with dirt.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps
Paula Hawkins
Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has a great appetite, but no heart.Pride has a great spirit, but no soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love does not wear out the heart, even if it weighs a thousand tons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Have gracious thoughts of your neighbors,kind thoughts of your friends,loving thoughts of your family,and humble thoughts of yourself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There are those who will hate you for the wrong reasons; you must be shrewd but innocent around them. There are those who will hate you for the right reasons, you must listen to them.Then there are those who will love you for the wrong reasons, you need them but never listen to them, and those who love you for the right reasons you must always keep near.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is fierce like a lion; once it has entered the heart, it is in vain to resist.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Do good.Spread love.Embrace all.Hurt none.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I don't think I really saw people except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that I understand, but at the time I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.
Doris Lessing
A large vessel will never fill up no matter how small the leak is.
Matshona Dhliwayo
... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go places and meet people all sharpen the mind.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Count your summers, not your winters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is divine ink: miracles are God's signature.
Matshona Dhiliwayo
You can put all your eggs in one basket if God has told you to.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pursue what catches your heart rather than what catches your eyes.
Roy Bennett