Words worth keeping
88 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.
The only truth is music.
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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.