Quotes

Words worth keeping

2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.

— Stephenie Meyer
Inspirational Love

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.

— Roy T. Bennett
Self & Identity Inspirational Life Positive Thinking Wisdom Relationships

Top 15 Things Money Can’t BuyTime. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.

— Roy T. Bennett
Self & Identity Truth Inspirational Life Love Trust Happiness Time

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

— George Carlin
Humor Society & Politics

It's not because I want to make out with her."Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit

— John Green
Humor

أحيانًا يساعدنا الآخرون بأن يكونوا �ى حياتنا �حسب

— أحمد خالد توÙ�يق
Life

Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Positive Thinking

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

— Maya Angelou
Love Courage & Strength Trust

I wantTo do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

— Pablo Neruda
Love

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

— Kathryn Stockett
Inspirational

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

— J.R.R. Tolkien
Society & Politics

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

— Kurt Vonnegut
Books & Writing Art & Beauty

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

— Sarah Dessen
General

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

— Rumi
Inspirational

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

— George Orwell
General

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.