Words worth keeping
55 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
परिवर्तन संसार का नियम है।
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
Change is the law of the universe.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.
I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.
This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
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.