Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 24

I had never seen so many books gathered in a single space as I saw in that room. I felt less afraid when I thought of all the other people who seemed to have had harder lives than mine. I disappeared completely to occupy the world of whatever book I was reading.
Petina Gappah
When the storm runs out of breath, a rainbow is born.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Focus on your goals, not your fear.
Roy Bennett
Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The wisdom that comes from being conscious of the real threats to you and your mission will sharpen your deliberateness in decision & choice-making, associations and positioning.
Archibald Marwizi
When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like the sun; warm to everyone, even your enemies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A hunter’s meal is in proportion to his skill.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different
Alexander McCall Smith
It is in vain to chase two birds at the same time, even if you have a thousand legs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The distance between you and the door when you have had enough of your spouse is love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Every successful mission requires a clear plan. Tonight, Mrs. Sibanda’s mission was to enjoy some gratification. She would not be denied. Her plan was as clear as oxygen. It involved an expensive perfume, a bottle of wine, and audacious underwear. Yes, for such battles, lingerie was always a critical component of the offensive strategy.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
Personal growth by tackling the ‘big-picture” through focusing on the things you have power to influence is more effective and less stressful.
Archibald Marwizi
Happiness cannot be bought by money,cannot be acquired by degrees,cannot be realized by power,and cannot be earned by honor;but can be won by kindness,gained by charity,attained by goodness,and achieved by love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower, no matter how beautiful, still has to grow in dirt.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love conquers the body by embracing it,conquers the mind by massaging it,conquers the heart by kissing it,and conquers the soul by marrying it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Think much, say little, do much.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A drop of faith can create a hailstorm of success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your dreams will only take you as far as your faith in them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Greed is the seed of corruptionas much as virtue is the seed of justice.Wisdom is the seed of successas much as vice is the seed of destruction.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be humble to those who praise you, pleasant to those who honor you, kind to those who cherish you, good to those who love you, and generous to those who adore you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your inner light lights up your outer world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Dream with all of your mind.Work with all of your heart.Persevere with all of your strength.Succeed with all of your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue what you want.
Roy Bennett
I write all these remarks with exactly the same feeling as if I were writing a letter to post into the distant past: I am so sure that everything we now take for granted is going to be utterly swept away in the next decade. ...)
Doris Lessing
Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Believing is the shortcut to achieving.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love sees more with its eyes closed than hate with its eyes open.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A seed rises from dirt to prove to the world that its greatness lies not on what the world thinks of it, but from within.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Failure is your best asset, complacency is your worst liability, and talent is your greatest capital.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you cannot see it in your mind, then it becomes difficult to get. If you can personally visualize it, it becomes easier and more realistic to achieve.
Archibald Marwizi
If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have the power to think, you have the power to change your world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Good choice,' Laura Said. 'Our neighbour, Mrs Crabtree, came round this morning and she put it best. Her theory is that fame is like a bubble. It looks gorgeous on the outside, as if it's been painted with pretty colours, but when you pop it there's nothing there. She said that life, love and friendship are what matters, and that what you do is more important than what you show.
Lauren St. John
I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When God looks in the mirror He sees love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The world within you is of greater consequence than the world around you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left behind the most happy memories.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are a gift to the universe, but a package is only valuable if it allows itself to be unwrapped.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be practical,be skillful,be teachable,and you will be successful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Light only benefits one whose eyes are open.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Inspire greatness in others and it will be easier to inspire greatness in yourself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We only fall on our face to learn how to rise on our feet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Her ears, lightly fringed with white that looked silver, lifted and moved, back, forward, listening and sensing. Her face turned, slightly, after each new sensation, alert. Her tail moved, in another dimension, as if its tip was catching messages her other organs could not. She sat poised, air-light, looking, hearing, feeling, smelling, breathing, with all of her, fur, whiskers, ears -- everything, in delicate vibration.
Doris Lessing
What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where the flesh was shredded off and the bone gleamed that famed ivory, and those below cowered and, if they were not quick enough, were spattered in blood. Then came the jolt, as of a fall, and I saw the leg was caught in an ungainly way in the smaller branches of a mutamba tree, the foot hooked, long like that infamous fruit.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colors because it knows it is beautiful inside out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Today is nothing but a snapshot of a place I've been, but not the place I'll always be.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Diamonds are proof that the most valuable things are sometimes formed in the dark.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I want to drag knives over my skin, just so that I can feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough to do that.
Paula Hawkins
With strength you can move rocks.With faith you can move mountains.With love you can move the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eye.
Roy Bennett