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Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors

"Diamonds are a girl's best friend until love introduces her to her soulmate."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Diamonds are a girl's best friend until love introduces her to her soulmate."
"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."
"Your highest potential is in your highest love."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Your highest potential is in your highest love."
"Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"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."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"A pearl never loses its value, not even when covered with dirt."
"Light is all a flower longs for, even when surrounded with priceless jewels."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Light is all a flower longs for, even when surrounded with priceless jewels."
"Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt."
"Success does not chase after you, you have to chase after it."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Success does not chase after you, you have to chase after it."
"No matter how beautiful a rose is it must still grow in dirt."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"No matter how beautiful a rose is it must still grow in dirt."
"You are like a seed; your greater beauty lies not on the outside, but within."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"You are like a seed; your greater beauty lies not on the outside, but within."
"It is in the stormiest skies that eagles find their true calling."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"It is in the stormiest skies that eagles find their true calling."
"Practicing what you preach is the world's most eloquent sermon."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Practicing what you preach is the world's most eloquent sermon."
"Great winds only challenge great trees."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Great winds only challenge great trees."
"It takes more than one individual to make a team."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"It takes more than one individual to make a team."
"When the tables are turned, whoever was full becomes hungry."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"When the tables are turned, whoever was full becomes hungry."
"Follow your dreams with all of your mind. Chase your dreams with all of your heart. Accomplish your dreams with all of your soul."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Follow your dreams with all of your mind. Chase your dreams with all of your heart. Accomplish your dreams with all of your soul."
"What you were is yesterday. What you are is now. What you can be is tomorrow. What you decide to be is today."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"What you were is yesterday. What you are is now. What you can be is tomorrow. What you decide to be is today."
"If you choose money over love, you will always be poor."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"If you choose money over love, you will always be poor."
"Love is the greatest drug; joy is the strongest medicine; virtue is the noblest remedy; together, they are the greatest therapy."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Love is the greatest drug; joy is the strongest medicine; virtue is the noblest remedy; together, they are the greatest therapy."
"Higher thoughts lead to a higher life."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Higher thoughts lead to a higher life."
"Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul."
"If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own."
"Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest."
"Love is more powerful than even the sun; light can only enter your eyes, but love can enter your soul."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Love is more powerful than even the sun; light can only enter your eyes, but love can enter your soul."
"When you fall for someone not even reason can help you up."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"When you fall for someone not even reason can help you up."
"Dream what others do not. Imagine what others have not. Do what others will not. Achieve what others could not."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Dream what others do not. Imagine what others have not. Do what others will not. Achieve what others could not."
"Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies."
"Excellence annoys your haters, success infuriates them, and genius kills them."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Excellence annoys your haters, success infuriates them, and genius kills them."
"Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination."
"Geniuses' steps take you higher than talent's leaps."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Geniuses' steps take you higher than talent's leaps."
"An original pebble is better than a counterfeit diamond."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"An original pebble is better than a counterfeit diamond."
"Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God."
"Think twice as much as others. Study twice as much as others. Work twice as much as others. Give twice as much as others."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Think twice as much as others. Study twice as much as others. Work twice as much as others. Give twice as much as others."
"A pretty heart is more valuable than a pretty face."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"A pretty heart is more valuable than a pretty face."
"Money can't buy love, except on Valentine's Day."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Money can't buy love, except on Valentine's Day."
"Ordinary people are products of their environment. Extraordinary people make their environments products of them."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"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."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"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."
"An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings."
"Don't judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Don't judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit."
"When you are walking on water it is fear, not sharks, that sinks you."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"When you are walking on water it is fear, not sharks, that sinks you."
"Learn from the Sun, on account of its warmth it doesn't need to beg anyone to esteem it"
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Learn from the Sun, on account of its warmth it doesn't need to beg anyone to esteem it"
"To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom."
"A flower must bloom inside first before revealing its beauty to the world."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"A flower must bloom inside first before revealing its beauty to the world."
"Guide impactfully. Guide impressively. Guide intuitively. Guide incredibly."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Guide impactfully. Guide impressively. Guide intuitively. Guide incredibly."
"Love will always be blind, but will never be deaf."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Love will always be blind, but will never be deaf."
"The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you."
"Love is the master key that opens every blessings door."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Love is the master key that opens every blessings door."
"When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it."
"Kings struggle to rule over nations, men struggle to rule over themselves; God effortlessly rules the universe."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Kings struggle to rule over nations, men struggle to rule over themselves; God effortlessly rules the universe."
"Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules."
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