Words worth keeping
54 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
گلوں میں رنگ بھرے باد نوبہار چلے، چلے بھی آؤ کہ گلشن کا کاروبار چلے۔
ہم دیکھیں گے، لازم ہے کہ ہم بھی دیکھیں گے۔
آ ئیں گے فقیروں پہ بھی وہ دن کہ جو اپنے تھے۔
دل نہ امید تو ہے، ناکام ہی تو ہے۔
کوئی امید بر نہیں آتی، کوئی صورت نظر نہیں آتی۔
یہ نہ تھی ہماری قسمت کہ وصال یار ہوتا، اگر اور جیتے رہتے یہی انتظار ہوتا۔
It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
They can crush flowers, but they cannot stop spring.
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Hope is a waking dream.
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.