Quotes by Philosophers - Page 20

If you want the most beautiful fish in the sea, make sure you have the most appealing bait.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the final chapter of your life story is written by love, you are guaranteed a happy ending.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be calm when your wife yells at you, calmer when she chastens you, but be terrified when she ignores you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.
Matshona Dhliwayo
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
Beauty catches your eye, joy seizes your heart, and love captures your soul.
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
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
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
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
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
The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you give up every time you don't achieve the immediate gain you want, you're just guaranteeing that the worst is going to happen... You can't expect an easy victory after one protest march.
Noam Chomsky
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When you look down on yourself, you set an example on how others should treat you.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Did you know you could destroy dragons? Dragons are not actually real, they just roar to scare you away from your goals. In fact they are afraid of determined heroes, they take flight at their approach
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When people reject you, don't be discouraged, because you can still fulfill your God given purpose without them. Remember that your destiny is not tied to any human being, but designed specially for you, by your Creator.
Gift Gugu Mona
I will not cease to walk in the direction towards my purpose, even if it means constantly walking on a bumpy road.
Gift Gugu Mona