Words worth keeping
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
We love the things we love for what they are.
Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
I would die for you. But I won't live for you.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!
This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer
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.