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पोथी पढ़ि पढ़ि जग मुआ, पंडित भया न कोय। ढाई आखर प्रेम का, पढ़े सो पंडित होय।

— कबीर Hindi
Love Education & Knowledge

काल करे सो आज कर, आज करे सो अब। पल में प्रलय होएगी, बहुरि करेगा कब।

— कबीर Hindi
Life Wisdom

निंदक नियरे राखिए, आँगन कुटी छवाय। बिन पानी साबुन बिना, निर्मल करे सुभाय।

— कबीर Hindi
Wisdom

तू कहता कागज की लेखी, मैं कहता आँखिन की देखी।

— कबीर Hindi
Truth Wisdom

चाह गई चिंता मिटी, मनुआ बेपरवाह। जिनको कछु नहिं चाहिए, वे साहन के साह।

— कबीर Hindi
Wisdom Happiness

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

— Lewis Caroll
General

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

— Nora Roberts
Inspirational

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.

— Kurt Vonnegut
Life Philosophy Nature & World

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

— Tim O'Brien
Truth Books & Writing

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

— Mother Teresa
Inspirational Love Kindness

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life

— Nicholas Sparks
Death & Loss

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

— Mahatma Gandhi
Death & Loss

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

— Jodi Picoult
Love Relationships

The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.

— Suzanne Collins
General

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams

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.