Words worth keeping
343 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Life should be great rather than long.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
माटी कहे कुम्हार से, तू क्या रौंदे मोहि। एक दिन ऐसा आएगा, मैं रौंदूंगी तोहि।
धीरे-धीरे रे मना, धीरे सब कुछ होय। माली सींचे सौ घड़ा, ऋतु आए फल होय।
काल करे सो आज कर, आज करे सो अब। पल में प्रलय होएगी, बहुरि करेगा कब।
A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
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.