Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 7

I miss you,” is how she entices you.“I want you,” is how she charms you.“I need you,” is how she entraps you.“I love you,” is how she imprisons you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Beauty catches your eye, joy seizes your heart, and love captures your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If someone is destined to be with you, nothing can keep her away; if she is not, nothing can make her stay.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The most valuable real estate in the universe is inside your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Joy is the best companion, virtue is the noblest acquaintance, wisdom is the cleverest friend, and love is the kindest soul mate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love conquers the body by embracing it,conquers the mind by massaging it,conquers the heart by kissing it,and conquers the soul by marrying it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from the sun; it is warm to everyone, and is therefore never in short supply of those who adore it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you kiss her cheeks, she is your friend; if you kiss her lips, she is your lover; if you kiss her heart, she is your soul mate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are sad, love will make you happy; afraid, love will make you brave; weak, love will make you strong; and broken, love will make you whole.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love lost is better than hate found. True criticism is better than false praise. Genuine enemies are better than counterfeit friends.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An inch to a man’s heart is a mile to his wallet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Dear fear, I’m divorcing you. Dear courage, I’m courting you. Dear hope, I’m pursuing you. Dear love, I’m marrying you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Give of yourself to others and others will give of themselves to you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Lust promises you the world, and disappoints. Love promises you the universe, and delivers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Jealousy says, “Compete with each other.” Envy says, “Destroy each other.” Empathy says, “Help each other.” Love says, “Empower each other.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A sword can only pierce the body, but love can pierce the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love has two rules: the first one is love, and the second one is love some more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When love intoxicates your heart, it is difficult for your soul to remain sober.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you hear love calling you, don’t pretend to be deaf.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The world’s most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Grief gives you a hundred reasons to cry; hope gives you a thousand reasons to smile, joy gives you a million reasons to laugh, and love gives you billion reasons to rejoice.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When two souls are one, they hear each other, even in silence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn, because life is ahead of you. Live, because death is before you. Listen, because wisdom is all around you. Love, because God is inside of you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To appreciate pleasure, someone had to experience pain; to appreciate joy, some had to experience sorrow; to appreciate love, some had to experience heartache; to appreciate freedom, some had to experience fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The ocean has limits, but true love does not.
Matshona Dhliwayo
See what love sees. Hear what love hears. Say what love says. Do what love does.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is loud; the soul hears it, even if the universe is deaf.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray for faith, hope for peace, strive for unity, and persevere for harmony.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Regard those who respect you.Esteem those who honor you.Cherish those who love you.Reward those who adore you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Anger is loud, rage is deafening, and wrath is thunderous; only love can silence them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who is wise is rich, one who is virtuous is wealthy, one who is happy is affluent, and one who is loving is prosperous.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned many into activists.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom knows the way. Understanding sees the way. Passion feels the way. Love goes all the way.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The world’s most beautiful angel is love inside your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Truth is my weapon. Knowledge is my armor. Wisdom is my strategist. Love is my warrior.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The heart you kiss today, the lips you kiss tomorrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn a lot. Laugh a lot. Love a lot. Live a lot.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The only weapon you are allowed to kill anyone with is kindness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education is one that the whites would value, and as whites do not value local languages at the altar of what the whites deem supreme. So it was in colonial times, and so it remains, more than thirty years later.
Petina Gappah
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.
Roy Bennett
A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A single star shines brighter than a thousand moons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To encourage people, walk beside them. To inspire people, walk in front of them. To drive people, walk behind them. To lead people, walk with them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The struggles of the past are the gateway to the blessings of the future.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be the calm in someone else’s storm.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The darkest storms color the brightest rainbows.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from the ocean; not fearing turbulence, it uses the wind against it to rise instead.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Bless the world with your mind, heal the world with your heart, lift the world with your soul; elevate the world with your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how low the sun sets, the time is coming when it will surely rise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.
Matshona Dhliwayo