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Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors
"Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands."
"A woman's beauty is worth little to you, a woman's intelligence is worth much to you, a woman's virtue is worth more to you, a woman's love is worth the most to you, and a woman's loyalty is worth everything to you."
"On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes."
"It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil."
"He who is deaf to wisdom is blind to good."
"Unswerving devotion to your goals is success."
"Tears water the eyes when they have been dry for too long."
"Your highest potential is in your highest love."
"Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise."
"A pearl never loses its value, not even when covered with dirt."
"You are like a seed; your greater beauty lies not on the outside, but within."
"You don't command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails."
"If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall."
"The soul's joys are greater than the heart's pleasures."
"The heart is a wanderer, the mind is its map; love is its destination."
"Rise in your mind and you will rise in your world."
"Storms come to teach trees and plants how to dance in the wind."
"Confuse them with your intelligence, baffle them with your excellence, bewilder them with your brilliance, and perplex them with your transcendence."
"The calmest part of the storm is not in its eye, but in your own soul."
"Water wrestles great opponents, but has no hands, and tramples great rivals, but has no feet. It slips through our fingers, but can swallow entire towns. Wind also slips through our fingers, but can swallow entire cities."
"Quiet love is better than loud hate."
"Geniuses' steps take you higher than talent's leaps."
"An original pebble is better than a counterfeit diamond."
"Falling in love with a woman's body is lust, with a woman's mind is sense, with a woman's heart is virtue, and with a woman's soul is wisdom."
"Learning how to cut trees down is intelligence, learning how to grow them is wisdom."
"A flower has no choice in where it is planted, but does have a choice in the direction it grows."
"Ordinary people are products of their environment. Extraordinary people make their environments products of them."
"Light is formless, but pierces the eyes. Wisdom is formless, but pierces the mind. Faith is formless, but pierces the heart. Love is formless, but pierces the soul."
"When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it."
"Learn from seeds to rise, no matter how much dirt is thrown at you."
"Great obstacles are no match for a great God."
"Through storms you are able to get all the colors you need to paint the rainbow."
"A teacher instructs; a student absorbs. A book is a companion; a good one, a messiah."
"When you wrestle with life, your heart inevitably becomes a warrior; when you wrestle with death, your soul inevitably becomes a conqueror."
"Though love may be blind, it sees much; though it may be deaf, it hears much; though it may be mute, it says much; and though it may be lame, it does much."
"The sharper the arrow the quicker the hunt."
"Kindness is a rose, love is a bundle."
"If you are ungrateful for one blessing, you will not be grateful for two. If you are ungrateful for two blessings, you will not be grateful for three. If you are grateful for one blessing, you will be grateful for innumerable."
"Love is the soul's rainbow."
"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."
"A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus."
"Look behind you in gratitude. Look ahead of you in hope. Look beside you in caution. Look around you in faith."
"Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean."
"Ask for a fish, and you only get one; ask for a net, and you can catch dozens."
"Your inner light is your inner power."
"The only weapon you are allowed to kill anyone with is kindness."
"A business is an army; you are the general, and your subordinates are your troops. Victory is achieving your goals. Great victory is surpassing your goals."
"Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure."
"Skill is the bridge between success and great success."
"Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more."
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