Quotes - Abhinav Sharma (abhi18av) (New Delhi, India) Showing 1-30 of 175

#1

“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

308 likes

#2

“Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

tags: happy

368 likes

#3

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74335 likes

#4

“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.”
― Benny Lewis, Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

tags: inspirational, language, language-learning, overcoming-obstacles

21 likes

#5

“There are seven days in a week, and “someday” is not one of them.”
― Benny Lewis, Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

24 likes

#6

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

tags: ideas

2080 likes

#7

“No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence--a duty and a duty alone--and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.”
― Roger Penrose, The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

tags: beauty, hate, love, math, mathematics, school, teacher

29 likes

#8

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

16448 likes

#9

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: fight, happiness, learn

3284 likes

#10

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: inspirational, life

7944 likes

#11

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
― Anita Loos

tags: ink, memory

1407 likes

#12

“Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales

550 likes

#13

“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: wisdom

5131 likes

#14

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: life, travel

3760 likes

#16

“The best fighter is never angry.”
― Lao Tzu

2122 likes

#17

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: time

2225 likes

#18

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
― Lao Tzu

1405 likes

#19

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: attributed-no-source, music

743 likes

#20

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

9942 likes

#21

“I mean, we’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention. In some ways, this is getting far afield. I mean, we are—as far as we know—the only part of the universe that’s self-conscious. We could even be the universe’s form of consciousness.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

16 likes

#22

“The desire for knowledge shapes a man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

114 likes

#23

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: description, language, power-of-words, words

3990 likes

#24

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69685 likes

#25

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

89112 likes

#26

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe

62126 likes

#27

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
― Eric Carle

1568 likes

#28