We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It’s important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.
~ Idowu Koyenikan
You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.
~ Jonathan Harnisch
If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.
~ Shah Asad Rizvi
Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.
~ Shah Asad Rizvi
We are all beautiful instruments of God. He created many notes in music so that we would not be stuck playing the same song. Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your journey and play on. Nobody will ever reach ultimate perfection in this lifetime, but trying to achieve it is a full-time job. Start now and don't stop. Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society, tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written.
~ Suzy Kassem
Stars do not pull each other down to be more visible, they shine brighter.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Thorns do not keep a rose from blooming, neither should obstacles keep you from success.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Seeds are proof that God puts within you what is supposed to enrich the world around you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If God wanted the sky to be empty, He would not have given birds wings to fly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Brave cubs become fierce lions.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The sky does not despair when a star falls, it makes room for a new one.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest weight a bird has to drop before it can fly is fear.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Singing in a storm silences thunder’s threats.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If the light within you is greater than the darkness around you, you are a star.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird does not give up flying today because it couldn't find any worms yesterday.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo