Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 54

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have shed a thousand tears, expect a thousand blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Change your attitude and you change your life. You cannot control what happens to you in your life, but you can always control how you respond to it. The way you choose to respond is a reflection of your attitude. By changing your attitude, you also change your perspective and change your life.
Roy Bennett
Learn from stars; even in the dark they give off light, not despair.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue what you want.
Roy Bennett
Don't let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up; don't let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.
Roy Bennett
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.
Roy Bennett
Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear.
Roy Bennett
Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.
Roy Bennett
When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.
Roy Bennett
When you start giving, instead of getting, you make a difference… You can always give a warm smile, a sincere hello, a positive vibe… your concern, your attention, your time, your love, and kindness to those around you.
Roy Bennett
We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.
Roy Bennett
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
Roy Bennett
Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.
Roy Bennett
Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.
Roy Bennett
If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.
Roy Bennett
Be brave and take risks… You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.
Roy Bennett
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
Roy Bennett
Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.
Roy Bennett
Live a good life. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.
Roy Bennett
Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier.
Roy Bennett
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
Roy Bennett
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.
Roy Bennett
Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.
Roy Bennett
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Roy Bennett
There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning.
Roy Bennett
A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.
Alexander McCall Smith
Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right. Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong.
Roy Bennett
No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.
Alexander McCall Smith
Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.
Roy Bennett
Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.
Roy Bennett
She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could give a different complexion to a matter, but on subsequent thought she had revised her position.Although she still believed that one should be frank in answers to questions, this duty arose only where there was an obligation, based on a reasonable expectation, to make a full disclosure. There was no duty to reveal everything in response to a casual question by one who had no right to the information.
Alexander McCall Smith
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
Alexander McCall Smith
Be positive. Be true. Be kind.
Roy Bennett
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
Doris Lessing
Mma Ramotswe had listened to a World Service broadcast on her radio one day which had simply taken her breath away. It was about philosophers who called themselves existentialists and who, as far as Mma Ramotswe could ascertain, lived in France. These French people said that you should just live in a way which made you feel real, and that the real thing to do was the right thing too. Mma Ramotswe had listened in astonishment. You did not have to go to France to meet existentialists, she reflected; there were many existentialists right here in Botswana. Note Mokoti, for example. She had been married to an existentialist herself, without even knowing it. Note, that selfish man who never once put himself out for another--not even for his wife--would have approved of existentialists, and they of him. It was very existentialist, perhaps, to go out to bars every night while your pregnant wife stayed at home, and even more existentialist to go off with girls--young existentialist girls--you met in bars. It was a good life being an existentialist, although not too good for all the other, nonexistentialist people around one.
Alexander McCall Smith
It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.
Alexander McCall Smith
Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner once I saw the hills of Fife across the Forth, things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives.
Alexander McCall Smith
I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that
Paula Hawkins
Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: 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
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Doris Lessing