Quotes - Saba Aftab (Middlesbrough, Cleveland, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 152

#1

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime

3193 likes

#2

“You live your life today,
Not tomorrow,
and certainly not yesterday.”
― John Grisham

567 likes

#3

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

114358 likes

#5

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

9138 likes

#6

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

6690 likes

#7

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: happiness, man, trouble

3321 likes

#8

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

2707 likes

#9

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

1167 likes

#10

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

1399 likes

#11

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

tags: life, story

3422 likes

#12

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: communication, confusion

1723 likes

#13

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: honesty, integerity

1664 likes

#14

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1828 likes

#15

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: change, fear-of-change

2280 likes

#16

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

1514 likes

#17

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

727 likes

#18

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: beauty

1403 likes

#20

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind

3095 likes

#21

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

253 likes

#22

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: love

808 likes

#23

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

874 likes

#24

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: intelligence, intelligent-action

2974 likes

#25

“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

842 likes

#26

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

2387 likes

#27

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

484 likes

#28

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

858 likes

#29

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: life, perspective, social-norms, society

528 likes

#30

“Lying is a delightful thing for it leads to the truth.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

81 likes

#31

“Be the sun and all will see you.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

146 likes

#32

“One can fall in love and still hate.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

301 likes

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