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Seriously, people have never called or told me that I was an unproposed guy or the lame loader or the douchebag’s dude, but it was me who felt it safe and secure after I named to myself, wondering what negatives I would feel if people name it. Same thing happens with us everywhere in life.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
I attended the University of Earth, and earned my P.H.D in life from the school of hardship.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I was never punished for my ignorance
—  I was punished by my ignorance.
A positive anything however small is something towards your goal. It's better than nothing.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don’t do anything very strange!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is the song you dance to when reality sings.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is a bitch; you get used though, or you kill yourself. Either way, you're winning.
— Ahmed Mostafa
Don’t be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you can’t see a solution it does not mean it doesn’t exist, you are just blind to it
— Harrish Sairaman
I think you should live every moment like tomorrow is your last day, but you should also plan for the future like you will be living another hundred years.
— Carla Reighard, Travelers
Life is like a painting, seems smooth and glorious but you can see its dullness when you are near it.
— Samiullah Khan Mohmand
All definitions are the interpretations of contrasts. What is, helps define what it is not!
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
When reaching for the stars, beware of those who want to cut off your hands.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
LIFE IS GOVERNED BY CERTAIN PRINCIPLES AND ETHICS THAT MAKE US WHO WE ARE!
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
If adrenaline was a catalyst for strength then hope was the catalyst for endurance.
— Marianne Banks, Keepsake Self Storage
That is the problem with our world. Nobody trusts anybody. We are just waiting for somebody to save us.
— Avijeet Das
The past only dies so the future can live.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are countless.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
— ?
Story goes that he wanted many things from one women, and she wanted one thing from many men.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
In life, those with heart certainly outdo those with ‘smart’.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
At the end of every dark storm is a bright rainbow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am
No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am
Terrified, yes. But I run toward the fire now. Not away.
— Todd Crawshaw, Exploits of the Satyr
The value of life is best appreciated by those who have only a short time to live.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
If it takes you more time to clean your makeup than to watch a movie… you already have a problem.
— mopana
There is no truer friend than your own conscience.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
There will always be a part of your life that’s not quite in order. This is the growth part, the area where lessons come from. Embrace this! Learn from it, and then move on.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
Every life will be better if God is at the center of it
— Bill Hybels
Lies spread quicker than truth because they have longer legs.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Somethimes you just have to take time to get to know yourself.Be alone.Eat alone,take yourself out,sleep alone.In the midst of this you will learn much about yourself.You will grow,figure out what inspires you,what you like and enjoy at.And when you find your true verison of yourself you will be free and secure in yourself,all you need to do is take some time just for you.
— Lost Soul
Abundance is, but a matter of perception. For here in these lands of plenty, there are more natural treasures than one can behold.
— Atalina Wright, Unbound
Happiness is a state of mind. your state of mind. So you should have some say in it
— Sumit Singh, A Transcendental Yogi Life: With Eternal Stories
Everyone starts to think they are ‘Superman’ from the moment they know their bad time has turned into the best.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
All in our lives, we are busy engaged and struggling with the figures and stats of rent, bills and savings when we forget to count the days of our lives.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
While correcting others, a grammar nazi forgets that he is the prey of the life-error
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
No poison can kill quicker than bitterness
—  no medicine can heal quicker than gratitude
Keep expecting and believing that your due season is coming. Declare that the good you have harvested in your life will manifest.
— Germany Kent
Life!, is but only...A faint whisper!".
— -Daryavesh Rothmensch
Looking on the bright side of life is better than looking on the dark side of despair.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A strong person has faithand builds for the future
— Phil Mitchell, A Bright New Morning: An American Story
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
— George Sander
We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
If I believe, truly believe our soulsare meant to cross paths, in each andevery life, traversing millennia and repeatingthis sweet interaction time and time againThen what is one lifetimewhere those interactions arecut short- For the Departed
— Abby Rosmarin, No One Reads Poetry: A Collection of Poems
Everything depends on the moment the spice hits the pan: whether it sizzles with mouthwatering fragrance or turns to ash. Once, I thought happiness was the sizzle in the pan. But it’s not. Happiness is the spice – that fragile speck, beholden to the heat, always and forever tempered by our environment.
— Sasha Martin, Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
There are many dreams in a lifetime – dreams that flourish or flounder for reasons much more complex than can be pinned down to any one person or situation.
— Sasha Martin, Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
maybe we destroy our own lives
— Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish
Life is like a Chinese burn.
— Annika
It is impossible to graduate from the University of Life with no scars.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest thing in the world is not in dying rich but leaving the richness behind for the world to treasure.
— Mayur Ramgir
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved
— SANDEEP
We are all walking a thin line between the sacred and the ordinary. The two are never far from each other, and sometimes they are the same
— RJ Blizzard
Don’t just make your life a documentary of compromised relationships rather live notorious, fearless and scandalous life to be part of others biographies.
— AnkitMishra
A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We are in the process of finding out what filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of satellites does to all life on Earth.
— Steven Magee
A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn’t want to break.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to make a difference in the world... prepare to suffer.
— Jeff Vines
The world says fit in
—  the universe says stand out.
You can be a genius, but you won't get far in life without balance.
— Kevin Leman, The Firstborn Advantage: Making Your Birth Order Work for You
The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
And It was said to me: "embrace the glorious mess you are". How easy it is to see darkness in the winter shedding and not see that even in its gloominess lies great beauty. That even in our great struggles - lies within a great victory. How then does the Spring green come about without the fertilisation of the Winter brown? Isn't it the very brown that gives way and life to the green we await to goggle in awe. There is power and sheer beauty in your mess. A true triumphing chaos that renders sweet melodic honey to your journey. So again it was whispered to me "embrace the glorious mess that you are
— Malebo Sephodi
The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The distance between two minds is understanding.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
Struggles make us a man or a woman! Stay raw, work hard and party harder!
— Avijeet Das
Everything is created twice. Once in your mind, then in your life!
— Harsh Agrawal, Affiliate Marketing For Dummies by ShoutMeLoud: Shortcut to unexplored digital monetization technique.
The thunder howled and the rain splashed, the leaves played with the breeze and the lightning flashed, and the tigress growled at last. She looked here and she looked there, she hadn't seen so much rain anywhere, a desire suddenly came in her heart, a mad longing that had to start, she felt deep love in the rain, looking at her cubs all over againBut two years ago she had been wounded, By cowardly men who wanted her grounded, They were afraid of her power, they wanted to capture her and to enslave her in their tower They laid traps and they waited in the trees, The jungle was full of birds and the bees, The tigress was out hunting for meat, her cubs awaiting in the cave for their treatThere was something missing in the air, the fragrance of jasmine was not there, The tigress looked up into the trees and saw the men's faces painted in grease, She challenged them looking into their eyes, And saw fear, fright , and faces full of lies! She roared with all her might, This was her land, She had all the right!The cowardly men crouching behind the trees, Fired their guns in twos and threes, The brave Tigress looked them in the eye, She was the fire and she was the sky, Indomitable force, invincible power, She was the Tigress, The Queen in her EmpireNone of the bullets could break her Spirit,Only one could graze her right leg a bit, She roared with all her heart's might, For she was the Queen for all to sight! The guns emptied and no more bullets to shoot, The cowardly men jumped from the trees and ran away in two hoots! The Tigress laughed and loudly roared,For she was the power and her Spirit soaredShe is the Tigress inside every Woman, She has the Power to defeat any Man,Love her and she would love you back,Respect her and she would respect you back,Dare to harm her and she would defeat you till the Last!
— Avijeet Das
When the nest becomes too small a bird is ready to spread its wings and fly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
One thing I learned in this world? Things don't last. People say they do. They don't. Your friends, they die. The wars go on and on and on, then they end. People say they will love each other for the rest of their lives, and they don't.
— Pete Hamill, North River
Things is very primitive in the jungle - no place to shit, sleep on the ground like an animal, eat out of cans, no place to take a bath or nothing, clothes is all rotting off.
— Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
Learning to be and learning to be creative are two sides of the same coin.
— Elaine St. James, Inner Simplicity: 100 Ways to Regain Peace and Nourish Your Soul
You can't change your life. What you can change is YOUR APPROACH.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
In calm waters you still find sharks.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When the heart is beautiful, its light shines though the eyes, vocal tones and actions of its owner.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Genius is in you, but like a seed, you determine whether it dies or grows.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything. - Julian Blackthorn
— Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
What do you do when you cannot see any light? Where do you go when you cannot see any path? So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny!
— Avijeet Das
We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything." - Julian Blackthorn
— Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
I don't settle down. I don't follow any path.Because I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!
— Avijeet Das
I wake up in strange beds and in unknown rooms. I wander in dark alleys and crooked roads. Some days I don't even see the sun. Some nights the moon hides from me. I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!
— Avijeet Das
Things are not always the way tbey seem to be
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
It's often your deepest pain that brings out the best of out of you
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
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
a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Life comes once, live wisely.
— Gift Gugu Mona
isn't it such a tragic thing when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn't
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
Talk less. Do more. Fear less. Achieve more.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Every day we have a choice - either to spread love and peace or to spread hate and war! And each one of us must choose love and peace each time and every time!
— Avijeet Das
A true ruler does not rule others, he rules himself.
— Andrija Jonić
A bee does not need to follow you to give you honey: you follow it. Become a person of value and you too won’t have to beg anyone to follow you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You were born to shine
—  don’t ever let anyone steal your light.
The funny thing about fake ass people is that they don't exist in my world so get real or get the fuck out.
— John Maiorana (Giovanni)
Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t use your energy to hate on anyone
—  use it to create the life you desire.
Don’t try to silence other people’s genius because you’re too deaf to hear your own.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In life, growth is imminent. And, growth without change, is unthinkable. And, to make the unthinkable thinkable, new roads need to be carved out by way of old ones. The old stands tall and firm and befriends the new to fall into place, with refined maturity and greater understanding and cultured admiration. It's simply pure Magic.
— Sandeep N. Tripathi
Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t strive to be superior to others
—  strive to be better than you were yesterday.
Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Massive success the best revenge is.
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
Leave beauty marks in the lives of those you meet, not scars.
— 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
Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, treasure God.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If they don't appreciate your presence, they may never recognize your absence.
— Najwa Zebian, Mind Platter
Dark times don't create stars
—  it is at night when what has always been in the star is revealed.
Water returns to the ocean. Light returns to the sun. Life returns to God.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.
— Avijeet Das
A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The fires of refinement will shine the light of Christ into the dark places of our hearts, burn off the chaff, and restore us to a state of greater purity.
— Robin Bertram, No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever
If you're still holding the broken pieces of glass & excepting to heal. That won't happen. To heal you first need to drop those pieces. This is how in real life you need to learn the art of letting go things that prevent your heart & soul from healing.
— Ridhdhesh Jivawala
Though the fire and water tried to overtake me, I have come out to a place of great abundance. I know that the fires of refinement, although hard, dark, and difficult, brought me to a better and richer place in God.
— Robin Bertram, No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever
This life is a journey and it is one that can be snatched right out of our hands. Therefore it is wise to know where you are going when you leave this life behind.
— Robin Bertram, No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever
Drama don't arrive by surprise; it is summoned, undisguised.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Abiding does not mean sitting idly by. It means resting in the work, resting in the moment, resting in the truth, resting in the confidence that God is your provision.
— Robin Bertram, No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever
I believe we all have one address and that is Earth.
— Avijeet Das
People love to do such things, attempting to degrade other individuals for their mistakes to fulfill their inner will in order to feel more noteworthy.
— Aditi Dufare, The Mysterious Night
If death blew a trumpet each time he was coming, there would be no one to greet him on arrival.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you're still holding the broken pieces of glass & expecting to heal. That won't happen. To heal you first need to drop those pieces. This is how in real life you need to learn the art of letting go things that prevent your heart & soul from healing.
— Ridhdhesh Jivawala
It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Expand your mind. Nurture your heart. Develop your body. Cultivate your soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If person have excuse for Every bad thing which use to do with others.than its wrong soul in human body
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Mind-power takes you to the mountaintop. Heart-power takes you the stars. Soul-power takes you to the edge of the universe.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The first time you succeed it is chance
—  the second time it is luck
Symphonies begin with one note
—  fires with one flame
We can be the light, the lantern, the morning star in someone's life. Living as best we can with a kind and forgiving heart. Taking compassionate action. Taking the time to smile or to help someone or an animal in need can make all the difference.Living with personal integrity. Not being perfect, but doing the best we can to live our lives in such a way that guides others is more powerful than any words you could speak or write.
— Eileen Anglin
If you want to lead a pleasant life, be good to yourself; if you want to lead a happy life, be good to others; and if you want to lead an exceptional life, be good to everyone.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I am the breeze. I drift and I wander. I meet people and i touch their hearts. but people don't stay with me. They leave me. And I keep on drifting and keep on wandering. That's my life.
— Avijeet Das
Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is a mirror, smile at it:-)
— Anonymous
Let's do everything that we can, and let the good Lord do everything else that we can't.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
I do not follow any tradition. I may stand at the beginning of one.
— Avijeet Das
You’ve to start somewhere to reach somewhereYou just can’t sit back hoping one daya magic bullet will come & hit me & my life will change my dreams become true.That happens ‘rarely’ I said ‘rarely’& That rarely may be One in hundred orOne in thousand or One in million Are you that much confident about yourself?You’ll be that one?
— Ridhdhesh Jivawala
I'm not made to fit into the society's definition of me. I've got freedom to define myself. You too, if you know!
— Ridhdhesh Jivawala
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
Life has me trapped in a cocoon of earth where I must grow and change until the day I sprout wings. And on that day I shall burst free, no longer marooned on a pebble of dust in a universe that only waits for me to find a means to fly.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Pain changes people for better or for worse. It can change a fledging, naive person to a strong, courageous person or on the other end of the spectrum, sadly however, a devout and pious Christian to a smoking meathead.
— Boniface Sagini, Thrills and Chills: Trudging Through Life
Take life a little more gladly,  Every disappointment a little more lightly, Every heartache a little more positively, And you have a little more days to live.
— Boniface Sagini, Thrills and Chills: Trudging Through Life
We want instant lunch, instant cure, instant miracles, instant salary, instant success— instant everything. This instant civilization, we have obsessed with, has made us grow a tad too impatient in virtually everything about life. And, of course, that doesn’t serve us so well.
— Boniface Sagini
I know the struggles. I know the pain. I know the life because I live it too.
— Boniface Sagini, Thrills and Chills: Trudging Through Life
A flower does not bloom for itself, but for the world; do likewise.
— 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
And sometimes I do freak out. Sometimes I get offended. I feel anxious, but it’s okay, because it usually goes away.
— Boniface Sagini, Thrills and Chills: Trudging Through Life
By what you allow to occupy your mind and mouth, you can either bless your life to great heights of success or send it orbiting into realms of failure, sadness, and discontentment.
— Mlungisi Simelane
Money doesn’t help if your mind is poor
—  strength doesn’t help if your heart is weak
The wise are like a river; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I think everything good and right in this world should be put on vinyl.
— Jay     Long
Whenever i live my Life I Live with honour
— Saad Khan
Success comes to the people who never ever doubt themselves.
— Avijeet Das
More than being human, we need peace and love.More than being strong and capable, we need compassion.More than being clever, we need kindness and gentleness.But where are all these sense of humanity?Where is the love that we have for human life and nature?Where is the peace that we once had?What about our dreams, dream of a better world?Little children are crying, am beginning to feel guilty.Where is that sense of brotherhood?Where is the compassion?What about our faith, have we lost trust in God?
— Nurudeen Ushawu
Do not be unkind to others just because you are passing through difficult times because they are not responsible for your misery.
— Latika Teotia
When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all.
— 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
Don't be angry at your smile
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
I sometimes wonder if life isn’t a giant mirror that reflects back at me everything I hold up to it.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Not every day is awful.Not every day is good.Despite the way the hours passI’m living like I should.Not every day is all wrong.Not every day is right.At least I’m not a spider trying to scamper out of sight.Not every day is ideal.Not every day is bad.At any rate I have my senseseven if they’re mad.Not every day is happy.Not every day is glum.When sadness drags me in the dumpsA simple tune I hum.Not every day I smile.Not every day I frown.With effort, I can take a scowland turn it upside down.Not every day is crazy.Not every day is sane.If consequence nips at my heelsI don’t pass on the blame.Not every day is giddy.Not every day is blah.Yet I can still appreciatea giggle and guffaw.Not every day is timid.Not every day is proud.I may not be a dragonbut I roar about as loud.Not every day has rainbows.Not every day has rain.Despite the fact I’m stiff and sore,I’m not in chronic pain.On every day the sun shines,so every night I praythat I might see the morning lightand live another day.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
A sunrise is a wondrous marvel, but in reality the sun never rises. It is the earth that rotates to face the sun. Life too can be a wondrous marvel, but like the earth, we must turn our eyes toward brighter things.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Life is not about having perfect days. Life is not about handling days perfectly. Life is about perfecting one’s character through the having and handling of every given day.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
No one can convince a man of his erring ways as persuasively as experience.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Life is a test. Without problems to solve, it wouldn’t be much of a test.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
You will realize your life is most peaceful when you actually stop caring or worrying about things and situations you can not change.
— Hopal Green
Many of us draw lines which we intend never to cross. But life tests our resolve, mercilessly at times, and a foot budges, nudged past that thinly-drawn line. So we draw another, resolving never to cross this one. Days grow dark and fog creeps in to blind our view, clouding the reason for the line’s existence from our minds. We draw another mark, ashamed that the last was crossed with less coaxing than we imagined it would require. Shadows and doubts give further need to draw a new line, and then another and another. Lines, I think, are too slim and obscure to be dependable deterrents for behavior. Too often, too easily, people stumble into places they later regret entering. What, then, keeps some individuals from crossing those narrow lines?It is the power of values. For if a person possessing values were to step one foot outside their line, they would be forced to release hands with those inflexible values and consciously abandon them. But their values are persuasive, keeping a tight grip, warding off the luring temptations beckoning one to test the line. Thus values maintained keep a person safely away from areas they dare not travel, steering a life between the lines, enhancing willpower and shaping mighty strength of character.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Living without a purpose is like life without oxygen
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
It is in the midst of laughter that our perspective alters and we realize this trying life can still be enjoyed.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
If you follow, Practice and Live ‘Ownership’, you have arrived in Life!
— Harrish Sairaman
I like my whiskey neat and strong just as I like my women. Women who have matured in their minds and bodies
—  women who have faced the storms of life! Because my life has always been about the thrill with the raging storms!
You must be more alive than life.You must see darkness danceand hear silence sing.You must be more awake than lightfor we aren’t born sleepingand we shouldn’t live sleeping.Only then will death’s slumberbecome sweet.
— Kamand Kojouri
People will never stop They will say. Stop troubling yourself They are not family They are that's why called 'PEOPLE
— Prerna Sharma
You cannot fast-forward time, you cannot rewind it, and you cannot pause it; you can only waste or benefit from it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Better an unsung HERO than the source of envy.
— Haresh Sippy
The so called beautiful people, especially the ones who are obsessed with their looks, bore me. They just have this superficiality in all things that they do or want to accomplice in life. It is like they want to look 'beautiful' all the time but not 'be beautiful' from within. I like depth. People who go deep into the way of things and the meaning of life. People who may not look beautiful but are truly beautiful!
— Avijeet Das
Bravery in not the absence of fear
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
Destiny is like a train with no brakes
—  unstoppable.
Intelligence will teach you how to make a living
—  wisdom will teach you how to make a life.
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
It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.
— Donna Goddard, Waldmeer
Talent is like a little seed; when nurtured, it will flourish.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Two minds are smarter than one.Two hands are stronger than one.Two hearts are mightier than one.Two souls are greater than one.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The unkind words that we said and the unkind deeds that we did will haunt us one day!
— Avijeet Das
In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them!
— Avijeet Das
Life is a fierce duel with emotions and a slow war with psychology.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
4 minutes in and this video has already given me an erection
— Chrysisi
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.
The night is the balm for the wounded souls of the world.
— Avijeet Das
Do something completely unrelated to your goals, and feel good about it. We all need rest, recreation, and a reminder that there is more to life than pursuing our goals.
— Dembe Michael
The only thing that holds you back from your success is fear of the unknown
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When we are confronted by fear and frustration, it’s easy to forget what we’re fighting for. It’s easy to let the importance of our dream dwindle away, and hope that maybe “someday” we’ll have the determination to make it happen.
— Dembe Michael
Don’t let your dream die! Keep it sharp and clear in your own mind. Honor it and vow to keep moving toward it, no matter what it takes.
— Dembe Michael
You resting your head tenderly on my shoulders while we sit below the old Oak tree. And we smile at each other and gaze lovingly at the fascinating sunset over the hills. This moment makes me feel completely alive as if we have reached not just cloud nine or ten but also cloud infinity!
— Avijeet Das
The night is the balm for the wounded soul!
— Avijeet Das
Success come to those people who never ever doubt themselves!
— Avijeet Das
Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if broken!
— Avijeet Das
If you are angry for one second, it leaves you with only fifty-nine seconds of happiness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Enough pain will keep you humble.Enough grief will keep you compassionate.Enough trouble will keep you strong.Enough hardship will keep you grateful.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We're all the same in different ways
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
The soul is a great magician; transforming thoughts into reality, desires into actions, and life into experiences.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is not judged just by the heart beats, but by the way you accept and overcome the challenges of life.
— Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
The fakirs always throng the sea-shoreTo find meaning in the chaosAnd then they too become melancholyFeeling nothing but their naked toes.
— Avijeet Das
Your first teacher is your mother
—  the second is people
The greatest weight a bird gives up when preparing to fly is fear.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A Maximus, the Gladiator lies in every human being. When the time comes, your Maximus within you will come out. It is not called destiny, it is an extended automatic self reflex
— Anoop Raghav
Don´t make people feel necessarily happy. Make them feel useful.
— Alin Sav
And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.
— Avijeet Das
Make every moment last forever, because nothing else does.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
Flowers too wither and fall,but they inspire one and all!
— Avijeet Das
Life becomes boring when things fall in place the way you intended!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
This is our story to tell. He says it in his Ten Commandments way and it hits me that way: profoundly. You'd think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven't. I've never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always feel like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in ita telling whatsoever.You can tell your story any way you damn well please.It's your solo.
— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
Life always has some surprises up its sleeve!
— Avijeet Das
If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.
— 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
I love death because life hates me.
— Luffina Lourduraj
The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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 I don’t weep the future, it has no mercy on you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A writer of any merit does not worry about being accepted everywhere. He must write to inspire, to change for the better or to challenge the status quo!
— Avijeet Das
Your mind has the intellect to lift the world,your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius to elevate the world.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You are no greater than the friends you keep, the books you read, the heroes you admire, and the obstacles you overcome.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Don’t be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Turn your failures into lessons, your obstacles into opportunities, your tragedies into triumphs, and in no time you will turn your dreams into reality.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom has a hundred eyes to see opportunities, courage has a hundred feet to seek opportunities, and strength has a hundred arms to seize opportunities.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is a hologram. Even the smallest moment contains eternity within it.
— Banani Ray, Flow Yoga The Mindful Path of Action for Transforming Stress into Happiness
Do not curse the well that quenches your thirst.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If someone deprives you of history deprives you of your future
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
Aren't you tired from all that smiling that you do at the camera? Relax and come with me to the mountains. There is more to life than the cameras!
— Avijeet Das
Love is the fragrance of a rose we call humankind.
— Anthony P. Mauro, Sr.
The boundaries that we face in life are mostly those we self-construct.
— Anthony P. Mauro, Sr.
Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories!
— Avijeet Das
There is nothing fulfilling than being in your own company ~
— Tanya Gambhir
Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Rather be a thin dog that is free than a fat one chained
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
Rather be a thin dog free,  than to be a fat one chained
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
The purpose of a purpose is a purpose
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
Take a deep breath and pause for one minute without doing anything! There did you feel the magic?
— Avijeet Das
The human body is much, much more than the sum of its parts, the difference being the human spirit.
— Anthony P. Mauro, Sr.
Sometimes all you need to do is just hold on to yourself! Look at the stars in the sky, listen to the sweet murmurings of the breeze, inhale the fragrance of the night, and you will feel fine!
— Avijeet Das
Your eyes hold all the answers to my life's problems.
— Avijeet Das
Tonight is the night of telling our stories. You tell three and I four.
— Avijeet Das
I love the smell of coffee when I wake up in the morning. It gives me the awesome feeling of hope!
— Avijeet Das
What you perceive might deceive you
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
Love is a strange feeling indeed, a feeling that every person must experience at least once in his or her life. A feeling that makes us feel one with God!
— Avijeet Das
A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I and my silences keep talking to each other.
— Avijeet Das
It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be wise enough to learn from the past, shrewd enough to capitalize on the present, and clever enough to prepare for the future.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Behaviour comes from a life of indoctrination.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Isolate the changes necessary to bring about the life you most desire.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Not everyone is running the same race,sometimes you gotta chosesometimes you gotta loseNot everyone is running at the same pace,sometimes you gotta look backsometimes you gotta wait for them on the trackNot everyone is looking for the same place,sometimes you gotta run fastsometimes you just gotta walk pastIt's like the cars on the freeway,they follow the red green rulesbut they are always on the moveLife is this and much more!though you keep running till you reach the heavenly doorafter all, it is all about the journey and the destination you adore!
— Kruthika Swaminathan
Time is your acquaintance, life is your friend, death is your enemy, and existence is your soulmate.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life should always be concerned with balance.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
There are so many ways to change the world, and every single one starts with you.
— Alin Sav
If you suffer lingering doubts; if the consolation you cling to is ‘it will probably be okay,’ then run the other way because what you’re contemplating is not a good choice.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Sadness is the heart withdrawing to seek shelter from the pain.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
To be a rainbow in someone’s cloud is commendable, but I prefer to be the rain because it dampens cheeks and washes away tears.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
God cries for us in the same way we cry for others. His tears most often spill over for the pain and suffering caused from the mortal misuse of a gift called agency. He will not revoke the gift. It was promised to us for the duration of our time on Earth. But He will hold each one of us accountable in the end for how we applied this power of agency.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Music is the true elixir of life.
— Avijeet Das
Tomorrow gets better if you get today better.
— Alin Sav
A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You’re destined for greatness,” Life said. “But first, I’m going to make you cry.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Other people influence your life through their actions and thoughts.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Nothing happens in life that you are unable to manage satisfactorily.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Every choice has the potential to change the course of a life.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Surprises are all part of life's journey.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
There is rarely a chance for life to remain constant.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
It's important not to waste life chasing after rainbows.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Life is far too short for any silly nonsense.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
The story of life is to get out of this life what you came for.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Life is sustained within the confines of personal reality bubbles.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Don’t judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The past always wishes to play its part in the unfolding drama of life.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Life is too short to surrender as a matter of course to external influences.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
The key point about life is that in the end nothing really matters.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Life can be controlled through perception and belief.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Life isn't intended as an exercise in taking it easy.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Live a life never having any regrets.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Control of what happens is the ultimate solution to life.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
I live locally, I eat regionally but I think internationally.
— Alin Sav
Beautiful beginnings are often born from ugly endings.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
until one face the worst ,do not get test the best.other way having best already ,may have different worse flow in life. we never get to know truth
— litymunshi
The lightest weight anyone can carry on life’s journey is hope.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There is always the potential to advance and evolve in life.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
There are no free tickets in life, there is always some cost in one form or another.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Life is all about balance, without which the seeds of chaos grow.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Make life a wonder to behold.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
We cannot stop wanting. Wanting is the tireless engine of life itself.
— Shai Tubali, Indestructible You: Building a Self that Can't be Broken
Life is an open book as far as potential is concerned.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Only what you willingly accept can continue to be part of your life.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Aim to live the life that gives you the most of what you want.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Capture the positive perspective of life.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Life is whatever you wish it to be or believe what it is or can become.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Only allow what contributes positively into your life.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
What comes about by design or chance determine how life plays out.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
If the air we breathe is life to us, blessing us is life to God.
— Mike Bunye
Life can be whatever you wish it to be or become.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
There is freedom within the potential to choose how to live life.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Life gives what you are prepared to pursue with a strong persistent intent.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Efficient control over what is experienced is necessary to live a life that is desirable.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Life can be moulded to suit individual desires.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Life is an open book, with the potential to become whatever can be comprehended.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
The best way to achieve a wonderful life is to have wonderful desires.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Choice is always the driving factor in life.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
There are no free passes in life, outcomes will always mirror the input.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Life really can become whatever you are prepared to make it.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Life wasn't meant to be a trial, it was intended to be a wondrous joy.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
How life progresses all depends on what you focus on then pursue.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Don't let the cares of the day interfere with living the life that you desire.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
We are all artists
—  painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds.
If you think too much, you will worry too much; if you worry too much, you will fear too much; if you fear too much, you will dread too much; and if you dread too much, you will suffer too much.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Life was like that- there would always be something scratching at the door. And whatever was scratching would just scratch and scratch until you opened the door.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
Who cares about what they think. Do what makes you feel alive and make every minute of your life count.
— Kiran Bisht
If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble’s apparel, do not scorn it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Selfishness is the absence of selflessness
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
Knowledge is power
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
Your success is hidden underneath your fears and weaknesses
— Thabiso Monkoe
Seeds you plant today determine the harvest you reap tomorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Practicing what you preach is the world’s most eloquent sermon.
— Matshona Dhliwayo