Love fights with a kiss, hate fights with a fist.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
What you do for others today you have done for yourself tomorrow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love knows the way because love is the way.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love gives with its eyes closed, hate destroys with its eyes open.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to lead a pleasant life, be good to yourself; if you want to lead a happy life, be good to others; and if you want to lead an exceptional life, be good to everyone.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want little, give little; if you want much, give much; if you want all, give all.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The world is full of angels; if you can’t find one, be one.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The most beautiful people are those who bring out the beauty in others.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Reward those who help you. Forget those who use you. Ignore those who judge you. Forgive those who wrong you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One good friend is better than a thousand acquaintances.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be so warm that people mistake you for the sun, so bright that people mistake you for the stars, and so accommodating that people mistake you for the universe.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else’s.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have power, be just; wealth, be generous; knowledge, be wise; titles, be humble; and life, be grateful.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from the ocean; when it rises, it carries more than itself along with it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be selfless like a burning candle, giving of yourself to others even if it consumes you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
An inch of light can conquer a mile of darkness.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Make your own luck, and then share it with others.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The sun announces its presence with light, not words; do likewise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be noble like the sun, let even those who resent you for shinning benefit from your warmth.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The happiest people in the world are those who give happiness to others.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The world within you is of greater consequence than the world around you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When your inner light shines your outer world glows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You are capable of great deeds.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo