Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

— Robert Louis Stevenson
Life

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.

— Chuck Palahniuk
Life

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

— Stephen Chbosky
Inspirational Life Happiness

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

— Paulo Coelho
Life

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

— Terry Pratchett
Life Death & Loss

In a time of destruction, create something.

— Maxine Hong Kingston
Life Hope

It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

— Sarah Dessen
Life

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

— Confucius
Inspirational Life Education & Knowledge

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

— Oprah Winfrey
Life Dreams Time

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

— Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational Life

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

— Paulo Coelho
Life

Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.

— Caitlyn Siehl
Life Love

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

— Nicholas Sparks
Life Love

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

— Steve Maraboli
Inspirational Life Change & Growth

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

— Frank Zappa
Self & Identity Life

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.