George Orwell: “In a time of universal deceit, telling a truth is a revolutionary act.”
Margaret Atwood: “War is what happened when language fails.”
Chinua Achebe : “Until the loins have their own historians, the history of haunt will always glorify the hunter.”
Toni Morrison: “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
Maya Angelou: “A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.”
Salman Rushdie: “From the beginning men used God to justify the unsatisfiable.”
Charles Bukowski: “Find what you love and let it kill you.”
Shakespeare: “How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heals but by degrees?”
John Milton: “Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
John Dryden: “There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know.”
William Blake: “To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.”
Jim Morrison: “Expose your self to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
Aristotle: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Mary Shelly: “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
George Eliot: “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
Pablo Neruda: “You can cut all flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
Rabindranath Tagore: “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
Octavia Butler: “In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
Homer: “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
Sokrates: “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Alice Munro: “The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
Geoffrey Chaucer: “What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than good woman? Nothing.”
Ruskin Bond: “To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast.”
Samule Taylor Coleridge: “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Walt Whitman: “Either define the moment or the moment will define you.”
Jack Kerouac: “Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
Jhumpa Lehri: “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
Khushwant Singh: “When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.”
Pearl S Buck: “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
Plato: “Books gave a soul to universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
Charles Dickens: “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
Rabindranath Tagore: “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”