Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 16

Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare.
Alexander McCall Smith
If we let the men talk about them and decide them, then suddenly we wake up and find out that the men have made all the decisions, and these decisions all suit men.
Alexander McCall Smith
You should have seen him,” she said. “A real ladies’ man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers.
Alexander McCall Smith
Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.
Alexander McCall Smith
Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you to point out that they are wrong, even when they are. That is the way things are, Mma--it just is.
Alexander McCall Smith
The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk. But why, she wondered, should anybody actually want a hunk, when non-hunks were so much more interesting?
Alexander McCall Smith
Good friends are divine instruments.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.
Alexander McCall Smith
You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.
Alexandra Fuller
Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Memories of that which we have lost are curious things - weeks, months, even years may pass without recollection of them and then, quite suddenly, something will remind us of a lost friend, or of a favourite possession that has been mislaid or destroyed, and then we think: Yes, that is what I have had and I have no longer
Alexander McCall Smith
That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better.
Paula Hawkins
I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don't get round to getting them fixed.
Paula Hawkins
She would not allow herself to remember how Note had treated her, and many others too, she suspected. She had forgiven him, yes, but she still did not like to remember. And perhaps a deliberate act of forgetting went along with forgiveness. You forgave, and then you said to yourself: Now I shall forget. Because if you did not forget, then your forgiveness would be tested, perhaps many times and in ways that you could not resist, and you might go back to anger, and to hating.
Alexander McCall Smith
Can you forgive her? Can you do that?There was no response.Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier.And?And then you will be able to forgive yourself—and ask others to forgive you.
Alexander McCall Smith
...Perhaps part of the secret of leading a life in which you would not always be worrying about things, or complaining about them, was to accept that there were people who just saw things differently from you and always would. Once you understood that, then you could accept the people themselves as they were and not try to change them. What was even more important, perhaps, was that you could love those people who looked at things so differently, because you realized that they were not trying to make life hard for you by being what they were, but were simply doing their best. Then, when you started to love them, love would do the work that it always did and it would begin to transform them and then they would end up seeing things in the same way that you did.
Alexander McCall Smith
Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts of contrition and corresponding forgiveness, can so often be shown to be based on nothing much other than pride and misunderstanding, and the forgetting of the humanity of the other—and land, of course.
Alexander McCall Smith
The ultimate form of forgiveness is in comprehending there’s nothing to forgive.
Roy Bennett
Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Good can exist without evil,but evil cannot exist without good.The former is eternal,the latter is temporal.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you ask God for love,He may give you someone to forgive.If you ask God for patience,He may give you someone to bear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fools do not acknowledge God,the proud reject Him,the wise embrace Him,and the righteous worship Him.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Spiritual battles have greater consequences than earthly wars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Welcome the righteous,avoid the wicked,and yet open both arms to the repentant.Whoever receives them receives God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The slightest act of love holds greater spiritual power than a thousand rituals.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One gains more from a fast than a feast.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray greatly.Pray gladly.Pray graciously.Pray gallantly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray patiently.Pray purposefully.Pray painstakingly.Pray perfectly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray daily.Pray daringly.Pray desperately.Pray determinedly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray sensibly.Pray scrupulously.Pray selflessly.Pray seriously.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love in your mind gives you strength.Love in your heart gives you fortitude.Love in your soul gives you influence.Love in your life gives you power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The Blessing #2:May love lead your eyes to look out for others,may love lead your ears to listen to others,may love lead your tongue to encourage others,may love lead your hands to help others,may love lead your mind to think of others,may love lead your heart to feel for others,and may love lead your soul to pray for others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The Blessing #1:May your eyes be profitable,may your ears be dutiful,may your tongue be insightful,may your hands be successful.May your mind be fruitful,may your heart be blissful,may your soul be joyful,may your life be peaceful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your inner light is your inner power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Inner beauty magnifies outer beauty.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the soul's symphony.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Make your mark in the world with divine ink: love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest universe is the one within you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the soul's rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love poured out multiplies love poured in.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An ounce of love can overcome a mountain of fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greater your inner light the brighter your outer world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the highest prayer; as God is love, God cannot ignore Himself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your inner light is your brightest light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To shine always love always.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your inner light lights up your outer world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The soul's joys are greater than the heart's pleasures.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The soul’s steps are greater than the heart’s leaps.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The heart smiles when the soul shines.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the brightest star in the soul's sky.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Bricks on your back are easier to carry than pebbles on your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love in your heart is better than gold in your hands.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The soul's smile is better than the heart's grin.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Breathe a word of prayer, not anger.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love pouring out of you is evidence of God pouring into you.
Matshona Dhliwayo