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Shona Definition
Kazhinji munhu waunodisa kuti ave shamwari yako ndiye waunoona achikusema. Zvekare, zvinogona kuitika kuti munhu adzimaidzwe pfungwa achikoniwa kuwana mazano okusvika pachinhu chaanenge achida.
English Translation
The thing your heart most longs for is often the very thing you cannot reach. Someone whose friendship you want may keep his distance, and a person may be at a loss for any way of getting what he wants.
Cultural Context
“Applied to unreturned affection or friendship, and to a trader who loses out to a rival and would do better joining him than nursing the disappointment.”
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This is a variant of
Panoda mwoyo / nzira haisvikiWhen the heart is set on reaching somewhere, the road there never seems to end.