Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 18

It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Light wears out the eyes but does not wear out the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you throw a stone into the ocean, it will reach the bottom; if you throw a word into someone’s heart, it will reach their soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your inner world creates your outer world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The heavens shine on us, but God shines in us.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I tell her that the best thing to do when you fall is to get up,And she is up, so she's moving in the right direction.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The hardest part about moving on is — not looking back.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The whole point in moving forward is to leave things behind. Once you look back, you stop moving forward. Understanding this makes you move on easier.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
It is not something you can tell by looking at a person, but trust is always being increased or decreased as you interact with a person.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Can trust be trusted?
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Perhaps trust had to be accompanied by a measure of common sense, and a hefty dose of realism about human nature. But that would need a lot of thinking about, and the tea break did not go on forever.
Alexander McCall Smith
We are living in a generation where people ‘in love’ are free to touch each other’s private parts but are not allowed to touch each other’s phones because they are private.
Robert Mugabe
In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Life and light will not let me be.
Paula Hawkins
Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Reflection and learning are lifelong processes...
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
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
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
We co-existed in peaceful detachment
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Get up to pray in the dark when all are asleep and see how your path is lit and your life begins to shine.
Mufti Ismail Menk
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
The tongue can cut deeper than the sword or heal faster than in the ward.
Mufti Ismail Menk
Every evening I sat on the music-stool and wrote down my day, and it was as if I, Anna, were nailing Anna to the page. Every day I shaped Anna, said: Today I got up at seven, cooked breakfast for Janet, sent her to school, etc. etc., and felt as if I had saved that day from chaos. Yet now I read those entries and feel nothing. I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing. Words mean nothing. They have become, when I think, not the form into which experience is shaped, but a series of meaningless sounds, like nursery talk, and away to one side of experience. Or like the sound track of a film that has slipped its connection with the film. When I am thinking I have only to write a phrase like ‘I walked down the street’, or take a phrase from a newspaper, ‘economic measures which lead to the full use of …’ and immediately the words dissolve, and my minds starts spawning images which have nothing to do with the words, so that every word I see or hear seems like a small raft bobbing about on an enormous sea of images. So I can’t write any longer. Or only when I write fast, without looking back at what I have written. For if I look back, then the words swim and have no sense and I am conscious only of me, Anna, as a pulse in a great darkness, and the words that I, Anna, write down are nothing, or like the secretions of a caterpillar that are forced out in ribbons to harden in the air.
Doris Lessing
Whatever you do, be gentle. People might have forgiven your harsh words but they may never forget how it stabbed their heart at that time!
Mufti Ismail Menk
Literature is analysis after the event.
Doris Lessing
But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.
Alexander McCall Smith
What you do now will be in the past right after you do it.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Changes occur and expectations change. Reality brings new possibilities, while destroying some too. It's true: the future is uncertain.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
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 d
Doris Lessing
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
Doris Lessing
Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Cease from envy, prejudice and unhealthy competitiveness. Never abandon your own mission and brand to pursue the seemingly exciting mission or vision of another.
Archibald Marwizi
Success can never be enjoyed if there is no congruity or alignment of your beliefs, values and how you behave in attaining your achievements.
Archibald Marwizi
No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life.
Archibald Marwizi
Never fool yourself, success will not come by accident – it must be deliberately planned for. If opportunities don’t come on their own, they too must be created or attracted.
Archibald Marwizi
Those who succeed after a rare opportunity, only succeed on the back of a plan they already had or one they craft and begin to pursue after receiving the windfall.
Archibald Marwizi
Personalising success means defining it in line with your defined mission and beliefs. This will help ignite a passion for the dream as well as develop underlying values and attitudes.
Archibald Marwizi
People are different and it is this uniqueness that also makes it imperative for the definition or meaning of success be left to each individual to determine.
Archibald Marwizi
If your belief system, mission, values and attitude are poisoned or contaminated, then expect whatever you enjoy and perceive as success to be short-lived.
Archibald Marwizi
To succeed, with or without money, have deliberate plans to make success out of opportunity. If you are totally dependent on chance, then chances are that you will fail.
Archibald Marwizi
Stop, think and use your brain! Don’t’ rush through life. Take time to reflect as you define what success means to you. Always remember you are one of a kind!
Archibald Marwizi
To become successful, do the little extra things that ordinary people refuse to do. The little extra hard work, little extra practice, little extra studying and the little extra positive attitude.
Archibald Marwizi
Defining what success means to you requires important meetings – board meetings with yourself. When the “me, myself and I” committee meets and passes transformational resolutions.
Archibald Marwizi
Success must be personalised, contextualized and internalized. Success means something different to each one of us. We each have a unique and peculiar mission in life.
Archibald Marwizi
Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success
Matshona Dhliwayo
Who are you? Where are you coming from? What are your strengths and ambitions? What makes you happy and fulfilled? What are your inherent gifts and talents? Clearly define yourself.
Archibald Marwizi
Most of the things to guarantee your death have already been done so you can spend the rest of your time focusing on the things that can guarantee your success and happiness.
Archibald Marwizi
Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.
Archibald Marwizi
Beginning to work your plan means movement and action. The success of your movements and actions can only be guaranteed if they are well calculated.
Archibald Marwizi
The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
There is more fulfilment when sharing with others than enjoying on your own - whatever success you achieve.
Archibald Marwizi
The unfairness of judging others comes in that we judge them on the basis of our own values and beliefs, yet we can never exactly stand on common ground.
Archibald Marwizi
The key to success is to first know thyself. The definition of success by another person must not paralyse you or make you think less of your potential to succeed in your own way.
Archibald Marwizi
Do not seek success just for the sake of succeeding or for self-gratification. Seek a life of impact and significance.
Archibald Marwizi
Plan for the sustainability of your success so that you do not drift back to failure and mediocrity.
Archibald Marwizi
Do not plan to die, do not plan for the death of your name or your influence - rather, plan for the resting of a life well lived. Make an eternal mark.
Archibald Marwizi
Don’t waste time. Avoid the company of wasteful people who lack the desire to achieve. Become assertive and action-oriented.
Archibald Marwizi
All around you, production must be taking place to bring you closer to realizing your defined success. Adopt a personal responsibility attitude to enable the realization of your dreams.
Archibald Marwizi