Life Quotations Quotes

Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't burn your bridges until you build better ones.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Money is the most beautiful woman in the world;even when old and wrinkled, men are head-over-heals in love with her.

~ Matshona Dhiliwayo

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Follow your heart only if it has your mind's feet.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener’s enemy.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Walking towards love is wiser than falling into it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An angel who makes you cry is better than a devil who makes you smile.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A ship that sails without a compass will get lost at sea.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A large vessel will never fill up no matter how small the leak is.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Good deeds are the highest notes in life's symphony.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is the most beautiful flower in the garden of life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You learn more from your tears than your smiles.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Because the sun helps you in the day, do not scoff at stars at night.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When reality is better than your dreams, stay awake.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you don't build your dreams, regret will build your nightmares.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Use the dirt life throws at you to plant the seeds of your success.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Heat makes things expand, that is why life sometimes throws us into a fiery furnace.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A star does not compete with other stars around it, it just shines.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Then nothing became something, and I was born, and I wrought great havoc in the world in the time allotted to me, and I returned to nothingness

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That's life

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana