Quote Curate

This is a collection of all my favourite quotes from movies, books, friends, billboards, radio, interviews etc... When I hear a good quote - I verbally agree with it giving it a rather long 'mmmmmmm' and nod like it were talking directly to me. Other times it feels like the words were taken straight out of my mouth. Thoughts that were lingering at the back of my mind, take form and finally find their expression when I hear that one wise saying. Here are the 'gists' of the stories, the ultimate ironies, the bottom lines, the bumper stickers, life in one-liners, a proverb, philosophy in a pill or just a favourite lyric. Call it whatever. They always manage to find their way to your memory.

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The sad truth of life is that so many people are together but not in love. And that so many people are in love but not together.

Anon

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Life is a series of now's.

Rajeev Dubey

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Trifles make perfection. And perfection is no trifle.

Michaelangelo

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The truth shall set you free. There is nothing truer than this statement.

Anon

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Perspective is a shortcut to gratitude.

Matthew Hussy

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The trouble with us is that we act professionally in our personal life, and take professional life too personally.

Anon

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The thing about a story is that it uses a different software system in the mind. When we listen to stories, we relax our guard, we are more trusting. Storytelling circumvents the guard dogs of logic. When our minds switch to storytelling mode, we suspend our disbelief, we believe in magic.

Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide CCO & co-chairman of Ogilvy & Mather.

http://www.campaignindia.in/article/opinion-how-storytelling-defeated-rationalism/432337

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Aye. 

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I love firsts. I want my life to be entirely composed of them. Life is not interesting if it is not wide.

Kill your darlings

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Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Ibn Battuta

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We are fascinated with secrets. It's human nature.

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Teamwork makes the dream work.

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As a parent, sometimes you have to be unkind to be kind.

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What is philosophy? It's believing that the whole world is selfish on one day; and then believing that even the most selfish person on earth has helped one other human out at least once, on the next day.

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If you really want to know the cost of a song, watch 'Crazy Heart'.

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People vary in virtue... but what they all have in common is vice.

Paraphrased from Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead

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Do or do not. There is no 'try'.