Words worth keeping
81 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever
Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
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.