Quotes from Matshona Dhliwayo

A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.

Don't burn your bridges until you build better ones.

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.

Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow.

If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear.

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener's enemy.

A ship that sails without a compass will get lost at sea.

A large vessel will never fill up no matter how small the leak is.

Because the sun helps you in the day, do not scoff at stars at night.

Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.

You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.

You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.

The past only dies so the future can live.

Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.

A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.

A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn't want to break.

Where the world only sees a seed, an optimist sees a tree.

A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise.

Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.

Love + truth = strengthLove + knowledge = influenceLove + understanding = powerLove + wisdom = enlightenment

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.