When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief….Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance….. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.
~ Ranata Suzuki
It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us.Sort of like how I say ‘funny’... but I actually mean sad.
~ Ranata Suzuki
They say the truth hurts. And these words hurt more than any I have ever written. But they are the truth – The cold, hard, undeniable truth.Not letting go doesn’t keep him with you.It’s still over. He’s still gone.… And nothing will ever change that.
~ Ranata Suzuki
With you in my life I felt like I could conquer anything.It was as if I was on top of the world and even the stars themselves were just within my grasp.But without you …. even getting through the day is hard.
~ Ranata Suzuki
I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.
~ Ranata Suzuki
She wears it so beautifully doesn’t she, her pain… Always smiling, always positive…. always happy to help… It’s like a garment perfectly tailored to fit the way she carries it… with a touch of grace… and the quietness of that sad smile…. All so you’d never know how heavy it really was.
~ Ranata Suzuki
The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it's possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process.
~ Germany Kent
Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it's possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process..
~ Germany Kent
A flower’s beauty is birthed in a seed’s ugly struggles.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Scars mean you fought. Wrinkles mean you lived. Heartache means you loved.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
This story is not about avoiding death, but living life.
~ Edie Littlefield Sundby
Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.
~ Tim Fargo
If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
At the end of every dark storm is a bright rainbow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is impossible to graduate from the University of Life with no scars.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn’t want to break.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Enough pain will keep you humble.Enough grief will keep you compassionate.Enough trouble will keep you strong.Enough hardship will keep you grateful.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Turn your failures into lessons, your obstacles into opportunities, your tragedies into triumphs, and in no time you will turn your dreams into reality.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You’re destined for greatness,” Life said. “But first, I’m going to make you cry.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble’s apparel, do not scorn it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how deep you bury good seeds, they always find a way to rise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The weak dread the storm, the foolish invite the storm, the wise avoid the storm,the strong battle the storm, and the great overcome the storm.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how beautiful a rose is it must still grow in dirt.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t resent the sky for its storms, esteem it for its rainbows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay optimistic in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay hopeful in impossible situations, you are great.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You can paint the whole sky black, but that won’t keep stars from shinning.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo