Wisdom Quote Quotes - Page 8

Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Pleasure can turn the body into a slave.Desire can turn the mind into a fool.Passion can turn the heart into a beast.Love can turn the soul into an angel.

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

Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To achieve peace let go of: guilt, anger, and bitterness. To achieve happiness embrace: virtue, faith, and love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom paints a rainbow in your mind, joy paints a rainbow in your heart, and love paints a rainbow in your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Scars mean you fought. Wrinkles mean you lived. Heartache means you loved.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is impossible for love to enter your heart without leaving footprints on your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A smile is worth dozens of words, but a kiss is worth a thousand.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have no one, you are poor; if you have an acquaintance, you are fortunate; if you have a friend, you are privileged; if you have a lover, you are rich; if you have a soulmate, you are wealthy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A heart full of love is worth more than a purse full of coins.

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

Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Anger is loud, rage is deafening, and wrath is thunderous; only love can silence them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Lips may lie, but the heart always tells the truth.

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

Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

For me I see the world as one big nation, where everyone in it is a citizen, so it is our responsibility to make it better.

Nurudeen Ushawu

Wisdom knows the way. Understanding sees the way. Passion feels the way. Love goes all the way.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Anger has strength, hate has might, but love has power.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Truth is my weapon. Knowledge is my armor. Wisdom is my strategist. Love is my warrior.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Courage is a warrior, wisdom is a sage, virtue is a priest, and love is poet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Truth has the biggest mouth in the universe, wisdom has the largest ears, love has the strongest hands, and faith has the ablest feet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Motivating others leads to success whereas inspiring others leads to greatness.

The first step forward is to admit your fear, then you can take the next step to conquer it.

Don't be afraid of emptiness. Emptiness is divine. Let the divine fill up the space in a way that is truly right for you. Trying to fill it up too soon blocks your gifts.

There has been more bloodshed in the name of God than for any other cause. And it is all because people never attempt to reach the fountain-head. They are content only to comply with the customs of their forefathers, and want others to do the same.

Every choice starts with a decision. Every decision starts with a thought. Every thought starts with a pre-conceived idea. It is up to you to decide what you do with each but always remember that the choice you make will result in the consequence you face.

One day I woke up and realized no amount of love, care, pain, hurt, anger, or retribution could ever transform those who are evil into good or kind people. That day I let go; I stopped caring for them, gave up any hope for their souls, and knew they were never worthy of me or my time.

There is no color to known to beauty except elegance.

A flower’s beauty is birthed in a seed’s ugly struggles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Books and school are great for learning but there is no substitute for life and living to provide a real education.

Wisdom comes from making mistakes, having the courage to face them, and make adjustments moving forward based upon the knowledge aquired through those experiences.

The highest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.

I only know everything if you ask the right questions.

The source and essence of all creation can be found everywhere. It resides equally in you, in me, and in all things. True wisdom is the fullest understanding of this essence--an understanding that can happen only when there is no separation between the knower and the known.

The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.

The only thing worse than unrealized hope is no hope.

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.

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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

The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.

Matshona Dhliwayo

In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Wealth won’t make you happy. Power won’t make you remarkable. Fame won’t make you honorable. Education won’t make you wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Joy gives you strength.Hope gives you fortitude.Faith gives you courage.Love gives you power.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The mind shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s wisdom; the heart, in proportion to one’s courage; and the soul, in proportion to one’s love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you rule the air, you are great; the waters, you are extraordinary; the lands, you are remarkable; but if you rule over yourself, you are remarkable.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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