My Favourites Quotes

By Khaled Hosseini

"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."

"It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime..."

"There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. "

"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."

"There is a way to be good again..."

"it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place."

"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."

"A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated..."

"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason."

"Marriage can wait, education cannot."

"A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything"

"Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting."

"It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey."

"some stories don't need telling"

"There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break."


By Marianne Williamson

“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.”

“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.”

“The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.”

“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”


By Al-Gore

“You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it."

“What we take for granted might not be here for our children.”

By Paulo Coelho

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”

By Albert Einstein

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”