Quotes

Words worth keeping

2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

— Vincent Van Gogh
Inspirational Love Art & Beauty Courage & Strength

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

— Albert Einstein
Change & Growth Education & Knowledge Nature & World

He must have known I'd want to leave you.""No, he must have known you would always want to come back.

— J.K. Rowling
Friendship

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.

— Tupac Shakur
Change & Growth

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

— J.K. Rowling
General

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

— Marcel Proust
Kindness Happiness

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
General

One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.""Meaning you?""What else?

— Cassandra Clare
General

It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

— Cassandra Clare
General

God has no religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi
Faith & Religion

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald
General

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

— James A. Baldwin
Love

You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.""I was ninety percent sure.""I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain."What the hell was that for?""The other ten percent.

— Cassandra Clare
Humor

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.

— Steve Maraboli
Truth Inspirational Life Kindness

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

— Benjamin Spock
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.