Quotes

Words worth keeping

396 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

— George Carlin
Inspirational Humor

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

— Bette Midler
Inspirational Humor Friendship Success Happiness

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.

— Neil Gaiman
Inspirational Books & Writing

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

— J. K. Rowling
Inspirational Friendship

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

— Sharon Salzberg
Inspirational Life Love Wisdom

Love is the absence of judgment.

— Dalai Lama XIV
Inspirational

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

— J.K. Rowling
Inspirational

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

— Rumi
Inspirational

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

— Lauren Oliver
Inspirational

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

— Taylor Swift
Inspirational Love

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

— Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspirational

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

— George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational

‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.

— Chico Xavier
Inspirational Life

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

— Christopher Paolini
Inspirational

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

— Steve Maraboli
Inspirational Life Change & Growth Success Happiness

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.