The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Rainbows can’t rise without storms.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The world would have no rainbows if the sky had not storms.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A star is not afraid of darkness, for its light comes from within.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You were given the problems you have because you can solve them; the burdens, because you can carry them; the trials, because you can overcome them; the opponents, because you can beat them; and the enemies, because you can conquer them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A diamond only truly appreciates pressure the day it begins to shine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If stars avoided the dark, they would not be visible at night.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Rainbows earn their brightest colors in the storm.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When the storm runs out of breath, a rainbow is born.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose between giving up and staying strong, when situations will try to predict your fate, when friends will depart from you and your echo will be your only companion. When that time comes, remember just why you fought so hard to get to where you are. What is life that it should threaten your faith and who is man that you should clinch onto for happiness?You have a destination. Remember this!
~ Chinonye J. Chidolue
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
In order for a seed to rise, it must be buried in dirt; likewise, in order for the great to rise they must be buried in adversity.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If the sky never grew dark, we would not be able to clearly see the stars.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life’s storms rage, you do.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A seed only begins to manifest its greatest potential the day it is buried in dirt.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be the calm in someone else’s storm.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
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
The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
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
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