If you have no one, you are poor; if you have an acquaintance, you are fortunate; if you have a friend, you are privileged; if you have a lover, you are rich; if you have a soulmate, you are wealthy.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If a woman stands behind you, respect her; if she stands beside you, cherish her; if she stands with you, adore her.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The cheapest thing in your life is money; the most expensive, love.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A smile is worth dozens of words, but a kiss is worth a thousand.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If a woman laughs when you hurt her, you ought to cry, for you have lost her; if she cries, you may laugh, for you have a worthy soulmate.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
True love cannot grow old, it is timeless.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Jealousy says, “Compete with each other.” Envy says, “Destroy each other.” Empathy says, “Help each other.” Love says, “Empower each other.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One who does not deserve your tears does not deserve your heart.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Give of yourself to others and others will give of themselves to you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Scars mean you fought. Wrinkles mean you lived. Heartache means you loved.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love.
~ 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
When you love, you forgive; when you forgive, you love.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If a man found his dream wife, it was because he was wide awake.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
An inch to a man’s heart is a mile to his wallet.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Get high on love, not drugs.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If your heart has been broken nine times, muster the courage to love again for the tenth.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One who forgives his enemies conquers them, one who loves his enemies conquers himself.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The loudest preacher in the world is your conscience, the cleverest is wisdom, the rowdiest is passion, the surest is truth, the purest is love, and the highest is God.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest love stories are not written by the ink of the pen, but by the ink of the heart.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You spend the beginning part of your life with your mother, so love her; the middle part of your life with your girlfriend, so care for her; and the end part of your life with your wife, so adore her.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When love writes a letter, joy is its ink.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love rewards you more in a moment than pleasure could in a lifetime.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
True love is like diamonds; scarce, and priceless.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest profit you make in business is not money, but happiness. The greatest riches you give in life are not possessions, but love. The greatest treasures you acquire in life are not jewels, but joy.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When love invades your life, it captures your heart, imprisons your mind, and frees your soul.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When you are in love, your eyes see him only, your ears hear him only, your mouth speaks of him only, your mind thinks of him only, your heart desires him only, your soul lives for him only, and your entire universe is about him only.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Falling in love with a woman’s body is lust, with a woman’s mind is sense, with a woman’s heart is virtue, and with a woman’s soul is wisdom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have money, you are affluent; if you have joy, you are wealthy; and if you have love, you are rich.
~ 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
No three words have greater force than “I want you,” greater strength than “I need you,” greater might than “I miss you,” and greater power than “I love you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo