matshona-dhliwayo-quotes

Dear past, I survived you. Dear present, I__ ready for you. Dear future, I__ coming for you.

Thoughts can only hurt you with your permission, feelings can only wound you with your consent, experiences can only damage you with your authorization; life can only ruin you with your approval.

The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind.

A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.

A virtuous spouse adds years to your life, a wise one adds decades, but a loving one adds an eternity to your life.

If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.

The cleanest feet in the universe are positive thoughts walking through your mind.

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

The world sees you for what you are, but the universe sees you for what you can be.

When a storm shows up, always remind yourself a rainbow is hiding behind it.

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay positive in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay positive in impossible situations, you are great.

If you want little, give little; if you want much, give much; if you want all, give all.

Be merry, because it confuses your enemies; happy, because it annoys them; cheerful, because it angers them; and joyful, because it kills them.

If birds sing without worrying about who is listening to them, and monkeys dance without worrying about who is watching them, and hyenas laugh without worrying about who is mocking them, then you too must do what you do best without worrying about who is ridiculing you.

The poorest man you can marry is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks character.