Words worth keeping
88 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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.