Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

— Mark Twain
Happiness

I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.

— J.R. Ward
General

You’re dangerous,� he says.“Why?�“Because you make me believe in the impossible

— Simone Elkeles
Relationships

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

— Aristotle
Education & Knowledge

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

— Plato
Philosophy

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

— Louis L'Amour
Inspirational Books & Writing

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

— Rumi Jalalud-Din
Inspirational

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

— John Green
General

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

— Paulo Coelho
Courage & Strength

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

— Voltaire
Faith & Religion

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

— Joss Whedon
Books & Writing

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

— Abraham Lincoln
Books & Writing

You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

— Cassandra Clare
General

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

— Rick Riordan
Love

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

— Anne Frank
Self & Identity Inspirational

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.