Life Quotes Quotes

You cannot fast-forward time, you cannot rewind it, and you cannot pause it; you can only waste or benefit from it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Better an unsung HERO than the source of envy.

~ Haresh Sippy

The so called beautiful people, especially the ones who are obsessed with their looks, bore me. They just have this superficiality in all things that they do or want to accomplice in life. It is like they want to look 'beautiful' all the time but not 'be beautiful' from within. I like depth. People who go deep into the way of things and the meaning of life. People who may not look beautiful but are truly beautiful!

~ Avijeet Das

Bravery in not the absence of fear

~ Thabiso Monkoe

Destiny is like a train with no brakes, unstoppable.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Intelligence will teach you how to make a living, wisdom will teach you how to make a life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.

~ Donna Goddard

Talent is like a little seed; when nurtured, it will flourish.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Two minds are smarter than one.Two hands are stronger than one.Two hearts are mightier than one.Two souls are greater than one.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is a fierce duel with emotions and a slow war with psychology.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Intelligence tells you where to look, wisdom tells you what to see.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The night is the balm for the wounded souls of the world.

~ Avijeet Das

The only thing that holds you back from your success is fear of the unknown

~ Thabiso Monkoe

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you are angry for one second, it leaves you with only fifty-nine seconds of happiness.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Enough pain will keep you humble.Enough grief will keep you compassionate.Enough trouble will keep you strong.Enough hardship will keep you grateful.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

We're all the same in different ways

~ Thabiso Monkoe

The soul is a great magician; transforming thoughts into reality, desires into actions, and life into experiences.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is not judged just by the heart beats, but by the way you accept and overcome the challenges of life.

~ Amit Ray

The fakirs always throng the sea-shoreTo find meaning in the chaosAnd then they too become melancholyFeeling nothing but their naked toes.

~ Avijeet Das

Your first teacher is your mother, the second is people, the third is life, and the fourth is God.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The greatest weight a bird gives up when preparing to fly is fear.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A Maximus, the Gladiator lies in every human being. When the time comes, your Maximus within you will come out. It is not called destiny, it is an extended automatic self reflex

~ Anoop Raghav

And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.

~ Avijeet Das

Make every moment last forever, because nothing else does.

~ Tapan Ghosh

Flowers too wither and fall,but they inspire one and all!

~ Avijeet Das

Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

This is our story to tell. He says it in his Ten Commandments way and it hits me that way: profoundly. You'd think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven't. I've never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always feel like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in ita telling whatsoever.You can tell your story any way you damn well please.It's your solo.

~ Jandy Nelson

If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I love death because life hates me.

~ Luffina Lourduraj

The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t mourn over the past; it has no pity for you. Don’t cry over the present, it has no sympathy for you, and I don’t weep the future, it has no mercy on you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A writer of any merit does not worry about being accepted everywhere. He must write to inspire, to change for the better or to challenge the status quo!

~ Avijeet Das

Your mind has the intellect to lift the world,your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius to elevate the world.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are no greater than the friends you keep, the books you read, the heroes you admire, and the obstacles you overcome.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo