Sage Quotes Quotes

Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you can think higher thoughts, you can do higher deeds.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The entire world above you, around you, beneath you, and beside you, is insignificant in comparison to the world within you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are a product of your environment, but to be great your environment has to be a product of you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Joy gives you strength.Hope gives you fortitude.Faith gives you courage.Love gives you power.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you cherish.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Use your mind’s talents diligently, your heart’s powers incredibly, and your soul’s genius profitably.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The mind shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s wisdom; the heart, in proportion to one’s courage; and the soul, in proportion to one’s love.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are what you think, you become what you believe, you turn out to be what you have always been.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The body is an outstanding source of strength, the mind an incredible source of intelligence, the heart an uncommon source of might, and the soul a remarkable source of power.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In the body is tremendous strength, in the mind is brilliant potential, in the heart is extraordinary influence, and in the soul is remarkable power.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When a flower rises from the earth, it is overcoming its greatest opponent: fear.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your mind is a reservoir of potential, your heart an ocean of strength, your soul a well of talents, and your body a vessel of power.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Wealth won’t make you happy. Power won’t make you remarkable. Fame won’t make you honorable. Education won’t make you wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Bless the world with your mind, heal the world with your heart, lift the world with your soul; elevate the world with your life.

~ 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 don’t weep over the future, it has no mercy on you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If the sky never grew dark, we would not be able to clearly see the stars.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world, it just blooms.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To encourage people, walk beside them. To inspire people, walk in front of them. To drive people, walk behind them. To lead people, walk with them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A single star shines brighter than a thousand moons.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is easier to pluck a flower than to nurture it, which is why some would prefer to destroy your talents than nurture them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The best way to avoid a catastrophic conflict of beliefs is to be more compassionate about other people’s beliefs as long as they do not advocate for prejudices, bigotry and sectarianism.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity, but the moment, that person starts to build a wall of separation between the self and the rest of humanity, coaxed by the textual commands of a scripture, the healthy religiousness turns into dangerous fundamentalism, which is a threat to both the self and the society.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fathers or Holy Spirits or Sons it believes in.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Become loving and become courageous. Become the inspiration which you seek outside. Bring the metaphorical heart of your limbic system in sync with the analytical powerhouse of the prefrontal cortex. From your mind shall rise the inspiration. From your mind shall rise the love. From your mind shall rise the greatest education of all.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social status. And one who recognizes this simple fact of human life behaves the same with the scientist, the janitor and the sex-worker.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race – it is beyond religion – it is beyond all sectarianism.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A flower’s beauty is birthed in a seed’s ugly struggles.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No God, Religion, Race or Nation is higher than the humans.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Indoctrination is dangerous.

~ Abhijit Naskar