Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

— J.K. Rowling
Friendship Courage & Strength

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

— Marilyn Monroe
Inspirational Life Love Friendship Relationships

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

— Douglas Adams
Humor Books & Writing

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

— Mother Teresa
General

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

— Sarah Dessen
Love

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

— Albert Einstein
General

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche
Trust

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

— Maya Angelou
Inspirational Books & Writing

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

— Robert A. Heinlein
Love Happiness

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

— Garrison Keillor
Humor Faith & Religion

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

— Haruki Murakami
Books & Writing

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

— Jorge Luis Borges
Books & Writing

Everything you can imagine is real.

— Pablo Picasso
Inspirational Life Art & Beauty

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

— Robert A. Heinlein
Humor Women

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.