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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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

— François de La Rochefoucauld
Truth Life

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

— Plato
Life Society & Politics

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

— Lev Grossman
Life

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

— Barbara Kingsolver
Life

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

— Khaled Hosseini
Life

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

— A.A. Milne
Life

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

— Sylvia Plath
Life

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

— Stephanie Perkins
Life

إن المرأة تحب رجلها ليس لأنه أقوى الرجال، و لا أوسمهم، و لا أغناهم، بل لأنه هو.. بضع�ه و قوته.. و الحب ليس إستعراض قوة لكنه طاقة عطاء دا�ئة مستمرة

— أحمد خالد توÙ�يق
Life

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

— Steve Maraboli
Inspirational Life Change & Growth Success Happiness

Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Sadness & Pain Education & Knowledge Time

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

— Lao Tzu
Life Change & Growth

Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.

— Lisa Schroeder
Life Love Relationships

Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Kindness Positive Thinking

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

— George Bernard Shaw
Life Philosophy

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.