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54 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

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to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.

— Ellen Bass
Life Love Hope

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

— Amy Tan
Dreams Hope

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

— Barack Obama
Hope

There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.

— Leonard Cohen
Hope

It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ...""I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

— J.K. Rowling
Hope

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

— Pittacus Lore
Hope

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

— Laini Taylor
Art & Beauty Hope

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

— Lemony Snicket
Hope

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

— Anne Frank
Inspirational Art & Beauty Hope

In a time of destruction, create something.

— Maxine Hong Kingston
Life Hope

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

— José N. Harris
Love Sadness & Pain Courage & Strength Hope Death & Loss

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

— Markus Zusak
Inspirational Life Philosophy Hope

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Positive Thinking Hope

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

— John Guare
Hope

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

— Pablo Neruda
Hope

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.