You were given the problems you have because you can solve them; the burdens, because you can carry them; the trials, because you can overcome them; the opponents, because you can beat them; and the enemies, because you can conquer them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Rainbows earn their brightest colors in the storm.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The darkest storms color the brightest rainbows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life’s storms rage, you do.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be the calm in someone else’s storm.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble’s apparel, do not scorn it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is on the canvass of the darkest storms that the brightest rainbows are painted.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Diamonds are formed in pressure, that is why God allows you to go through difficult times.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Today’s storms usher in tomorrow’s sunshine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The rainbow’s colors are hidden in the storm.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The darkest part of the storm paints the brightest part of the rainbow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The size of your storm determines the size of your rainbow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
In storms look for rainbows, in sunshine prepare for storms.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Perfume is the scent that pours out of a flower's soul when crushed.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars are born out of dark moments.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Extraordinary storms turn average seamen into extraordinary sailors.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is a sage’s university, hardship is his professor.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo