Nature hides its secrets in wisdom, the universe hides its secrets in love.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Live each day as if it were your last, love each day as if you will live forever.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want the most beautiful fish in the sea, make sure you have the most appealing bait.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love knows the way because love is the way.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love gives with its eyes closed, hate destroys with its eyes open.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When the nest becomes too small a bird is ready to spread its wings and fly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
In calm waters you still find sharks.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.
~ 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
A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Symphonies begin with one note, fires with one flame, gardens with one flower, and masterpieces with one stroke.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The wise are like a sprouting seed; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your feet may be small, but travel much. Your hands may be little, but conquer much. Your eyes may be tiny, but perceive much. Your ears may be modest, but heed much.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Money doesn’t help if your mind is poor, strength doesn’t help if your heart is weak, possessions don’t help if your soul is empty.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot fast-forward time, you cannot rewind it, and you cannot pause it; you can only waste or benefit from it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Destiny is like a train with no brakes, unstoppable.
~ 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
Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
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
Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.
~ 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
A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not curse the well that quenches your thirst.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo