Anubhav Shrivastava > Anubhav's Quotes

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“impossible is an extremely limiting word in describing what is clearly taking place in front of one's eyes.”
― fritz

“inspire others or get inspired by others, choice is always ours.”
― anubhav

“Innovative people do not need to be told to do it, they need to be allowed to do it.”
― Eric Schmidt, How Google Works

“You should hire the best engineer you can find, regardless of her coding preference, because if she’s the best she can down enough Java to C how to make the Python Go.”
― Eric Schmidt, How Google Works

“I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dyeing my hair tonight.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.”
― Dean Koontz

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.”
― Ken Segall, Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success

“What is Hope? Hope is a thread that connects dream and reality. Hope can also be reason to live life fully - to wake up every morning with a smile on our face and with a strong belief that there is something better in store for us. And when that hope turns into reality, it perhaps becomes one of our sweetest victories ever - sweet because it's always fought mentally, with our own self.”
― anubhav

“Question is not whether you can do it not, it's always whether you did it or not.”
― anubhav

“[Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

“It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines