English Quotes

There is no such thing as a hurt that is too small to matter when emotional closeness is at stake. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025

The heart, in a way, has to be selfish for its own preservation. So, don't let people tell you that you're selfish and wrong to follow your own heart. #VishenLakhiani

The heart, in a way, has to be selfish for its own preservation. So, don't let people tell you that you're selfish and wrong to follow your own heart. #VishenLakhiani — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025

You can usually tell whether a new writer's work is going to last by whether or not the style has a sense of rhythm. [...] I think that someone who writes without rhythm lacks the talent to be a writer. #HarukiMurakami

You can usually tell whether a new writer's work is going to last by whether or not the style has a sense of rhythm. [...] I think that someone who writes without rhythm lacks the talent to be a writer. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025

It doesn't matter [that] there was honor in America's acknowledgment of moral wrong in the area of race. An acknowledgement of wrong was an acknowledgment of wrong, and it brought a loss of moral authority--and, thus, adult authority--despite the good it achieved. #ShelbySteele

It doesn't matter [that] there was honor in America's acknowledgment of moral wrong in the area of race. An acknowledgement of wrong was an acknowledgment of wrong, and it brought a loss of moral authority--and, thus, adult authority--despite the good it achieved. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025

Although the lowest level of personality is mostly about the elephant, the life story is written primarily by the rider. You create your story in consciousness as you interpret your own behavior, and as you listen to other people's thoughts about you. #JonathanHaidt

Although the lowest level of personality is mostly about the elephant, the life story is written primarily by the rider. You create your story in consciousness as you interpret your own behavior, and as you listen to other people's thoughts about you. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025

So please do not resent me, my privileges make you better off than you would otherwise be, the inequality you find galling is for your own good. #MichaelSandel

So please do not resent me, my privileges make you better off than you would otherwise be, the inequality you find galling is for your own good. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025

Karma simply means we have created the blueprint for our lives. It means we are the makers of our own fate. When we say This is my karma, we are actually saying I am responsible for my life. #Sadhguru

Karma simply means we have created the blueprint for our lives. It means we are the makers of our own fate. When we say This is my karma, we are actually saying I am responsible for my life. #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2025

...the patients who had seen a geriatrics team were a quarter less likely to become disabled and half as likely to develop depression. They were 40 percent less likely to require home health services. These were stunning results. #AtulGawande

...the patients who had seen a geriatrics team were a quarter less likely to become disabled and half as likely to develop depression. They were 40 percent less likely to require home health services. These were stunning results. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2025

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing. #PaulArden

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2025

Serious illness or infirmity will strike. It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained? #AtulGawande

Serious illness or infirmity will strike. It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained? #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2025

Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning. #GaryChapman

Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2025

I see it now--this world is swiftly passing. #Mahabharata

I see it now--this world is swiftly passing. #Mahabharata — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2025

Every statistics student is warned that statistical significance is a technical concept that should not be confused with significance in the vernacular sense of noteworthy or consequential. #StevenPinker

Every statistics student is warned that statistical significance is a technical concept that should not be confused with significance in the vernacular sense of noteworthy or consequential. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2025

The main purpose of CBT is to train oneself not to catastrophize and interpret every situation in the most negative light, and the goal is to develop a more positive and resilient attitude towards the world, so that one can engage with it as fully as possible. #HelenPluckrose

The main purpose of CBT is to train oneself not to catastrophize and interpret every situation in the most negative light, and the goal is to develop a more positive and resilient attitude towards the world, so that one can engage with it as fully as possible. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2025

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions. #NicolasChamfort

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions. #NicolasChamfort — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2025

Unless there's something specifically about you or your job that requires it, there is nothing to be admired about being constantly connected, constantly potentially productive the second you open your eyes in the morningnd in my opinion, no one should accept this #JennyOdell

Unless there's something specifically about you or your job that requires it, there is nothing to be admired about being constantly connected, constantly potentially productive the second you open your eyes in the morningnd in my opinion, no one should accept this #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2025

In America, money not only sets the course of policy and influences the economy; it is also a yardstick in value judgement. It even affects how Americans think and how they approach a problem. #QianNing

In America, money not only sets the course of policy and influences the economy; it is also a yardstick in value judgement. It even affects how Americans think and how they approach a problem. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2025

The moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is done. #MichaelSandel

The moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is done. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 1, 2025

The unconscious mind [may] be reading the present through the lenses of decades ago, but what we fear will happen [has] already happened; we are projecting into the future a catastrophe [from] to a past we have not had the chance to fathom and mourn adequately. #TheSchoolOfLife

The unconscious mind [may] be reading the present through the lenses of decades ago, but what we fear will happen [has] already happened; we are projecting into the future a catastrophe [from] to a past we have not had the chance to fathom and mourn adequately. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 1, 2025

Your great wealth and your great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality [...] those were characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient States #OswaldSpengler