Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.
~ 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
Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One who loves lives a thousand years in one day, one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years.
~ 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
The best chapters in your life story are written by love.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If birds did not believe in their ability to fly, the sky would be empty.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Water your dreams with fear, and they will wilt; with doubt, and they will wither; with hope, and they will grow; with faith, and they will flourish.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird will only fall from the sky when it stops believing in its ability to fly, and a fish will only drown in water when it stops believing in its ability to swim.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your mind is a gift. Your heart is a prize. Your soul is a blessing. Your life is a reward.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You were born to dream. You were born to strive. You were born to conquer. You were born to rise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You are one thought away from intelligence, one word away from kindness, one deed away from excellence, one step away from brilliance, and one second away from transcendence.
~ 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
The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.
~ 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
Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge gives you the world, intelligence gives you the sky, understanding gives you the stars, but wisdom gives you the universe.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Diamonds are valuable because they are uncommon, sand is worthless because it is common, be yourself and you will be a diamond.
~ 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
Yesterday says, “Forget me, but learn from me.” Today says, “Embrace me, yet utilize me.”Tomorrow says, “Anticipate me, then prepare for me.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay positive in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay positive in impossible situations, you are great.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You can paint the whole sky black, but that won’t keep stars from shinning.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The sun is intelligent because it never rises too early, and wise because it never sets too late.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Rest as if you’ll live forever, work as if you’ll die today.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo