Life lesson quotes Quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo · Page 8

“If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Feed your enemies with a long spoon so they can't bite your hand.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“There are thousands of languages around the world, but love is the most beautiful of them all.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Never let bitterness make a home in your heart; raise the rent and kick it out.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Truth has never been conquered, not even by the mightiest armies.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Don’t let past disappointments rob you of future happiness.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“To strengthen the body’s muscles, exercise; the mind’s muscles, read; the heart’s muscle’s, laugh; and the soul’s muscles, love.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“When you surround yourself with clever people, you have a board of advisers that you don’t have to pay for.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Bless the world with your mind, heal the world with your heart, lift the world with your soul; elevate the world with…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Trees generously share their fruit. Bees generously share their honey. Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Ignorance weakens you, understanding shelters you, intelligence strengthens you, but wisdom makes you invincible.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Intelligence tells you where to look; wisdom tells you what to see.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“You’re destined for greatness,” Life said. “But first, I’m going to make you cry.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Expect success. Desire success. Attract success. Realize success.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you are angry for one second, it leaves you with only fifty-nine seconds of happiness.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The storm is an artist; the rainbow is its masterpiece.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“We are all artists; painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Hate is strong, fear is mighty, jealousy is powerful, but love is invincible.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“An angel who makes you cry is better than a devil who makes you smile.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Seeds are proof that God sometimes packages miracles in small things.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“One who loves lives a thousand years in one day; one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“You don’t choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you plan to walk in the footsteps of the great, be prepared to walk with sores on your feet.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Love pouring out of you is evidence of God pouring into you.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“If all you have is love, you are among the richest people in the world.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Knowing how to make money is intelligence; knowing how to use it is wisdom.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I was never punished for my ignorance; I was punished by my ignorance.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo