1. In a maize field choose to be a flower. In a garden of daises choose to be a rose.
2. Don’t let others define you or they might pick the worst word in the dictionary.
3. Everyone gets knocked down, but only the strong get up.
4. You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.
5. Mistakes are lessons inside out.
6. Practice never makes you perfect, but it gets you closer to perfection.
7. Seek to be the smartest in a room, not the loudest.
8. It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.
9. One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.
10. Our most beautiful dreams are born from our most unpleasant nightmares.
11. The limits you set in your mind are the limits you set in your life.
12. Live for your dreams, not your memories.
13. To live a little, love a little. To live a lot, love a lot.
14. Life is short; but you are tall enough to reach for your destiny.
15. The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left behind the happiest memories.
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;
and if you have a soulmate, you are wealthy.
~Matshona Dhliwayo
