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If you want to know a person’s true character, observe how he treats those who don’t matter.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The uglier the storm the lovelier the rainbow.Matshona Dhliwayo
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What you conquer in your soul you conquer in your world.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Spend time with people who enrich your mind, nourish your heart, and illuminate your soul.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Whether your glass is half full or half empty, hope can fill it up.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has a great appetite, but no heart. Pride has a great spirit, but no soul.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The mind dies, but its thoughts live on. The heart perishes, but its experiences live on. The body expires, but its spirit lives on.Matshona Dhliwayo
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When you look into the mirror, you can’t even see your heart; but when God looks at your shadow, He sees your soul.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If the past could be changed, it would not exist. If the future could be stopped, it would not survive. If the present could be avoided, it would not prevail.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colors because it knows it is beautiful inside out.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Rainbows earn their brightest colors in the storm.Matshona Dhliwayo
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You are not honored for the fruit you pick, but for the trees you plant.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Rain is just God weeping for Earth’s troubles.Matshona Dhliwayo
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When you look at a rose try to focus on its beauty, not its thorns.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Wisdom is a great prophet, faith is a great warrior, knowledge is a great sage, and virtue is a great priest.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you want to know how fortunate you are, visit three places: the slum, the hospital, and the cemetery.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Light another’s path and the universe will light your own.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Trees generously share their fruit. Bees generously share their honey. Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If your thoughts are higher than your problems, you can fly above them.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.Matshona Dhliwayo
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To strengthen the body’s muscles, exercise; the mind’s muscles, read; the heart’s muscle’s, laugh; and the soul’s muscles, love.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you rule the air, you are great; the waters, you are extraordinary; the lands, you are remarkable; but if you rule over yourself, you are remarkable.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Worry soils, even the purest mind. Envy poisons, even the purest heart. Greed sullies, even the purest soul.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The brave with all of their weaknesses are better than the cowardly with all of their strengths.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you can think higher thoughts, you can do higher deeds.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The entire world above you, around you, beneath you, and beside you, is insignificant in comparison to the world within you.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.Matshona Dhliwayo
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You are a product of your environment, but to be great your environment has to be a product of you.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Joy gives you strength. Hope gives you fortitude. Faith gives you courage. Love gives you power.Matshona Dhliwayo
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You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you cherish.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Use your mind’s talents diligently, your heart’s powers incredibly, and your soul’s genius profitably.Matshona Dhliwayo
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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
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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
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Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.Matshona Dhliwayo
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When a flower rises from the earth, it is overcoming its greatest opponent: fear.Matshona Dhliwayo
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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
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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
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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
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In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If the sky never grew dark, we would not be able to clearly see the stars.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.Matshona Dhliwayo
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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
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The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A single star shines brighter than a thousand moons.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine.Matshona Dhliwayo
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It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A flower’s beauty is birthed in a seed’s ugly struggles.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Wisdom knows the way. Understanding sees the way. Passion feels the way. Love goes all the way.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The world’s most beautiful angel is love inside your soul.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Divorce fear. Court courage. Pursue hope. Marry love.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.Matshona Dhliwayo
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To change your life, love yourself. To change your community, love others. To change the world, love everyone.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Love as much as you can, for as long as you can, and as best as you can.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Anger is loud, rage is deafening, and wrath is thunderous; only love can silence them.Matshona Dhliwayo
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One who is wise is rich, one who is virtuous is wealthy, one who is happy is affluent, and one who is loving is prosperous.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Regard those who respect you. Esteem those who honor you. Cherish those who love you. Reward those who adore you.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Love in your mind can be felt by some, love in your heart can be felt by many, but love in your soul can be felt by all.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Help when you can. Give what you have. Do what you must. Be who you ought to be.Matshona Dhliwayo
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God is not Christian.God is not Muslim.God is not Buddhist.God is love.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Pray for faith, hope for peace, strive for unity, and persevere for harmony.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Love is loud; the soul hears it, even if the universe is deaf.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Love is black. Love is white. Love is brown. Love is humanity.Matshona Dhliwayo
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See what love sees. Hear what love hears. Say what love says. Do what love does.Matshona Dhliwayo
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To appreciate pleasure, someone had to experience pain; to appreciate joy, some had to experience sorrow; to appreciate love, some had to experience heartache; to appreciate freedom, some had to experience fear.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A heart full of love is worth more than a purse full of coins.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Grief gives you a hundred reasons to cry; hope gives you a thousand reasons to smile, joy gives you a million reasons to laugh, and love gives you billion reasons to rejoice.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you have no one, you are poor; if you have an acquaintance, you are fortunate; if you have a friend, you are privileged; if you have a lover, you are rich; if you have a soulmate, you are wealthy.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Love has two rules: the first one is love, and the second one is love some more.Matshona Dhliwayo
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It is impossible for love to enter your heart without leaving footprints on your soul.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Jealousy says, “Compete with each other.” Envy says, “Destroy each other.” Empathy says, “Help each other.” Love says, “Empower each other.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Give of yourself to others and others will give of themselves to you.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Scars mean you fought. Wrinkles mean you lived. Heartache means you loved.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love.Matshona Dhliwayo
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To achieve peace let go of: guilt, anger, and bitterness. To achieve happiness embrace: virtue, faith, and love.Matshona Dhliwayo
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When you love, you forgive; when you forgive, you love.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Wisdom paints a rainbow in your mind, joy paints a rainbow in your heart, and love paints a rainbow in your soul.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The clearest mirror in the universe is not made of glass, but of a loving soul.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Love has never been conquered, not even by the greatest army.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Love lost is better than hate found. True criticism is better than false praise. Genuine enemies are better than counterfeit friends.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The loudest preacher in the world is your conscience, the cleverest is wisdom, the rowdiest is passion, the surest is truth, the purest is love, and the highest is God.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.Matshona Dhliwayo
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You spend the beginning part of your life with your mother, so love her; the middle part of your life with your girlfriend, so care for her; and the end part of your life with your wife, so adore her.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Learn from the sun; it is warm to everyone, and is therefore never in short supply of those who adore it.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The greatest profit you make in business is not money, but happiness. The greatest riches you give in life are not possessions, but love. The greatest treasures you acquire in life are not jewels, but joy.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you have money, you are affluent; if you have joy, you are wealthy; and if you have love, you are rich.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad.Matshona Dhliwayo
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I searched for love, and only found God; I searched for God, and only found love.Matshona Dhliwayo